In the last decade, he co-founded Casey Research, which analyzes big-picture trends in high-growth areas, with a staff of economists, geologists, investment strategists and business analysts that have expertise in precious metals, energy, technology and natural resources.

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For the first time in several generations, it has become clear that abundant domestic energy resources are within our reach, and that we have the technology to responsibly and safely extract it.

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Building a human-sized wormhole, for example, would require harnessing vast amounts of peculiar quantum field energy and deploying gravitational stabilizing technology that would need the resources of a cosmic super-civilization.

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