Michael T. Klare on the collapse of the old oil order: Only the rapid development of alternative sources of energy…might spare the world the most severe economic repercussions.
Search Results
You searched for: energy
In a recent vlog, Skepchick Rebecca Watson had some friendly advice for male skeptics seeking to make women feel comfortable and welcome at skeptical gatherings. She mentioned, offhandedly, that during […]
When the universe came into being a mere 13.75 billion years ago, its origin may have been so weird, due to expanding dimensions, that we can’t even imagine what it would have been like.
A new printing technology is in development that promises to pack between 10 and 30 percent more energy into batteries for electric vehicles helping them to compete with conventional cars.
As political upheaval spreads across North Africa and into the Persian Gulf, 2011 may turn out to be as momentous as 1971, the year when the nature of the region’s petro-states first took shape.
Don’t pick on the sprouts, and don’t even pick on Organic. The danger here is the way you and I perceive and respond to risk, a subconscious decision-making process that often works well, but which sometimes can create risks all by itself.
Magma wells could prove to be a very powerful new source of energy—up to five times more productive than standard geothermal wells.
Today I just wanted to bring up a few examples of bad “science” floating around the internet. Finding articles/posts like these always get me riled up, but I wonder how […]
Donald Trump has been running around the countryside, playing the CEO of Village Idiot, Inc. to the hilt these last few weeks, and our lazy, unprincipled national media corps has […]
The global recession pushed climate change action toward the bottom of the geopolitical agenda. Yet President Obama bucked conventional wisdom Tuesday night by making clean energy technology a centerpiece of his State of the Union Address.
While a number of leading technology companies (IBM, Cisco, HP) have launched impressive Smart Grid initiatives, the broader public still doesn’t really understand why the “Smart Grid” is so important […]
Robert Fried says… n n When student resistance to classroom learning is seen as typical and inevitable, and teachers console each other to “just hang on till June,” that . […]
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal ran an online survey of its readers, asking them to predict which form of alternative energy would be most prevalent by the year 2030. […]
Today, we say goodbye to Sherlock Holmes (for the rest of the series, on the importance of true observation, seeing what isn’t there and not just what is, and preventing […]
At Miller-McCune magazine, Emily Badger discusses several key themes of the Climate Shift report, focusing on how the reaction from several bloggers connects to the findings of Chapter 4. The full article is worth a […]
According to the American Association of Retirement Communities, nearly 15,000 baby boomers retire every day – and visit and selecta community to live – an extraordinary number by any estimate. […]
Neither Greg nor I are energy experts- even The Prize, as gripping as it was, was more or less Finnegan’s Wake for me. And zinc mines are nowhere near as […]
What do many diseases have in common? The body’s voltage, which is another way of looking at low alkalinity or high acidity, is at the basis of many types of disorder in the human body.
A happy adolescence increases the odds of a happy adulthood, says new research. There’s a catch, of course: those who have enjoyable teenage years are more likely to get divorced as adults.
North Korea is using a German intermediary to approach the United Nations in hopes of selling carbon credits from its hydro-power projects to more wealthy nations for hard currency.
Early science fiction predicted jet packs and flying cars—a revolution in energy. Instead we got cell phones and laptop computers—a revolution in information.
▸
2 min
—
with
If there was a central theme to the president’s remarks, it was innovation. He called for more investment in education, research, science and clean energy.
Near-Earth Asteroids are a threat to our planet, but they also represent an opportunity to generate enormous wealth, and may drive the commercial space race.
If you’re like me, you’re sick to the point of exhaustion of seeing the traditional light bulb being used as a symbol of innovation. There are light bulbs everywhere you […]
If the hunt for the God Particle really is over, what does that mean for physics and, more importantly, for you?
Is it possible to export innovation from one company to another? Guy Chazan and Chip Cummins of the Wall Street Journal explain how Jorma Ollila, the former chairman of Nokia […]
By intensely focusing the sun’s rays on a rare earth oxide, researchers have discovered a reactor that could produce fuel from water in an easily stored form.
Among the newly proposed federal budget cuts is $1.1 billion from the Department of Energy Office of Science which funds the majority of physics research at universities and national labs.
With tremendous improvements in energy efficiency, traditional buildings can be just as sustainable as buildings that flaunt their green-ness.
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a book review of Year Million, a collection of essays by 14 prominent futurists and thinkers who collectively ponder the fate of […]