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Brenmiller Energy’s boxes of hot rocks are being deployed to turn electricity into steam heat, boost campus heat-and-power systems, and make power plants more efficient. Doron Brenmiller, co-founder of Brenmiller Energy, knows all about the useful things hot rocks can do. Over the past 12 years, the Israel-based manufacturer of thermal energy storage systems has evolved from producing heat batteries for a specific purpose — solar-thermal power plants — to heat batteries for a much wider range of applications. Brenmiller Energy’s bGen systems, which use crushed rock as an energy-storage medium, are now being deployed to turn cheap electricity into...

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The ministries for televangelists Keith Moore and Creflo Dollar recently purchased new jets, totaling tens of millions of dollars. After a fundraising campaign with a goal of $10 million, Moore’s Faith Life International purchased a used Dassault Falcon 7X jet, which was listed for sale at $17.5 million on the website AircraftVx. A new model would have cost $60 million. The Federal Aviation Administration disclosed the purchase when it certified the jet in May. The jet’s original tail number was N1902C, but has been changed to N37KM. Tail numbers are the aircraft equivalent of license plates for cars. When ministries...

A U.S. House Committee has launched a probe of the Biden-Harris administration after reports that the White House pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, a leading professional nonprofit association, to remove the age limits for transgender surgeries and drugs for minors. Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., chair of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra opening the probe, which requests all documentation and communication around the alleged “political interference” and whether HHS has pressured other medical groups to alter its guidance. Critics have raised concerns that those surgeries, which...

Lucy Letby has become arguably the most notorious serial killer of modern times. Convicted of killing seven babies in her care and attempting to kill seven others – the former neonatal nurse will die in prison. But for some time now, a growing number of experts have been raising concerns about her trials, claiming that vital evidence may have been misinterpreted. Others insist that much of the debate is misguided and there is no evidence to show that the trial was in any way unfair or unreliable. An inquiry into the Countess of Chester Hospital and the NHS’s handling of...

After working with the embattled Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, for several years, one former employee and most of her family cannot picture themselves worshiping at a megachurch or being involved in any kind of organized religion again. “No,” Jana Scott (whose name has been changed to protect her identity) bluntly told The Christian Post in a recent interview when asked if she would ever again worship at a megachurch. “In fact, I'll be honest with you, there's no one in my family ... that attends church anymore of any kind. It has destroyed our family.” As the fallout from...

MorningStar Ministries leader Chris Reed resigned from all his leadership roles with the organization effective Monday, including his job as senior pastor of MorningStar Fellowship Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina, citing, among other things, the sexual abuse of minors by a former volunteer and police officer. In a letter to MorningStar staff shared on X, Reed explained he was returning leadership of the ministry to founder Rick Joyner to focus more on what God called him to do, which is to “to prophesy, pastor, teach, preach, and write.” He also pointed to the 2023 arrest of former church volunteer...

J Michael Waller is the author of a new book "Big Intel." Tucker interviews him as he discloses the details of the "Deep State" and how it happened. If what he reveals is true, our country is in for great turmoil.

Cheryl Fritze, director of News Operations for Michigan News Source, said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is “in cahoots” with Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel when it comes to conducting the state’s elections and intimidating county election coordinators. In a recent video, Benson said she would go after local election officials who do not certify election results despite the possibility of legitimate legal concerns about the results. “[I]f someone were to violate the law and not certify the election at the local level, we will come for you,” Benson said in a video published by...

The Swiss political scientist who has studied the unique dynamics of why incumbents win and lose told RedState the polling shifts toward Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential campaign and away from former President Donald Trump are highly suspect. “I would not be surprised if some voters would be lying to pollsters right now,” said Dr. Louis Perron, who earned his doctorate at the University of Zurich. Perron, the author of Beat the Incumbent: Proven Strategies and Tactics to Win Elections, said it is natural for voters to present themselves as socially or morally acceptable. “There is currently quite...

Almost two-thirds of people, 64%, agree that Ireland should welcome people who move here to make a better life for themselves or their families, according to a new survey. The study, which was conducted by Ireland Thinks for the Migrant Rights Center Ireland (MRCI), showed that 18% of those surveyed disagree that Ireland should welcome people who move here. Asked what Government policy should be towards undocumented migrant workers, 25% of respondents said they should be required to leave the country immediately, while 69% said they should be given the opportunity to come forward and legalize their status, provided they...

Recently, a woman called in to The Michael Knowles show and left a message detailing her traumatic abortion experience. Her story serves as a reminder that though the ability to kill one’s preborn child has roundly been celebrated as “freedom,” abortion regret is real. The woman, who explained that she is in her fifties, said that when she was 41, she sought an abortion. “I got pregnant, and this is embarrassing, but I was addicted to drugs, and my doctor said, ‘How dare you bring a baby into this world, when you’re addicted to drugs? It’s going to be damaged,'”...

Planned Parenthood affiliates providing abortions to Missouri residents have filed a lawsuit to block a new state law that would prevent them from receiving Medicaid funding. The law was set to take effect August 28. Passed in April, the law says that “no public funds will be expended to any abortion facility or affiliate thereof.” It will prevent the state’s health care program, MO Healthnet, from reimbursing Planned Parenthood. Though nearly all preborn children in the state of Missouri are currently protected from abortion, Planned Parenthood Great Plains of Overland Park, Kansas, and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (which has a...

<p>Toronto’s first black female police superintendent was dinged with a demotion after she admitted to helping several black officers cheat in an attempt to get them promoted.</p><p>Trailblazing cop Stacy Clarke was disciplined after it was determined she played a “lead role” in the 2021 corruption scandal, which was ruled Wednesday by a tribunal as “extremely serious” misconduct, the Toronto Star reported.</p>

Babies Died, Adults Delivered from Spiritual Death Chicago, IL — During the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last week in Chicago, Planned Parenthood parked a “mobile clinic” just a few blocks from the United Center, where the event was hosted, and scheduled appointments for free abortions. Up to 25 babies were reportedly murdered using chemical abortion drugs during the first two days of the convention. The clinic also offered appointments to sterilize men free of charge. Dubbed by some as a “mobile death camp,” the van was manned by Colleen McNicholas, an abortionist Operation Rescue has been tracking for years. The...

Beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 3, the Illinois Flag Commission will start accepting public submissions for a new state flag design.The commission will accept design ideas for consideration from the public – via online or mail – until Oct. 18.

One of the pro-lifers on scene called 911 to leave a record of what had happened to the minor. According to his eyewitness testimony, the couple in question arrived in a rental car. Therefore, it remains uncertain where the crime took place. Statutory Rape in Illinois What is statutory rape? Simply put, it is non-forced sexual activity with an underaged person. In many jurisdictions, this type of sexual activity is legally defined as “statutory rape” because the victim is not old enough to lawfully consent to sexual contact. According to the Illinois statute , “A person commits criminal sexual abuse...

Granite City, IL — On Saturday, August 24, John Ryan, a pro-lifer who reaches out to abortion vulnerable women from the sidewalk at Hope Clinic (nicknamed “Hopeless Clinic”) in Granite City, Illinois, was arrested for battery. But Ryan was not the perpetrator of violence. Rather, he was the victim. While Ryan reached out to a mother with verbal pleas and offers of help, one of the escorts working for the notoriously dangerous late-term abortion facility shoved her umbrella into him multiple times. As many as 10 witnesses who were in the immediate vicinity collaborated with Ryan’s video footage and statements...