Two weeks ago we started this feature of interviews with leading scientists and thinkers on the subject of energy. The first interview was with Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA, Langley Research Center. This is the second of what will be an ongoing series of interviews in the weeks ahead. Regular readers of this blog […]
This column begins a new feature for this blog. Every week, for the near future, I plan to have an interview with a well respected scientist or thinker on the subject of energy. Regular readers of this blog know that I believe that facing and solving the multiple issues concerning energy is the single most […]
A newspapers function is to report the news. It is also to sell newspapers. As a result we the readers usually are subjected to endless articles about national and local politics, the disaster in Iraq, the latest news of the celebrity or celebrity couple of the moment, and most recently all aspects of the global […]
We are all more aware of global warming than we were years ago. As a country we passed through the tipping point of awareness in the last year. We have a better understanding of what it is that we each do to contribute to global warming, and a number of us have taken action to […]
The New York Times is my favorite newspaper. Amidst all the media that I consume, it holds a disproportionately influential place in my life. It is a pleasure to read. In fact a number of columns I have written for this blog have been reflections on an article that I read in the Times. So […]
Last week I wrote about an incredible energy conference hosted by the Foundation for the Future. As one of a select few invited to observe and participate in the conference, I had the incredible experience to listen to and meet with 15 of the top thinkers and scientists in the world today on the subject […]
About a month ago, I wrote a post entitled ‘Water’. In it I suggested that water would become an increasingly precious resource in the southwestern U.S. and that disputes would occur between states and other regulatory entities over rights to the water of the Colorado River. It was therefore no surprise to see a huge […]
This past weekend I had the great good fortune to attend a three day energy conference attended by some of the world’s greatest energy experts. Thanks to the good graces of the Foundation for the Future I was invited to attend the conference as an observer. The Foundation invited 15 of the foremost physicists and […]
In the prior post I gave a general definition and overview of peak oil for those that have yet to track this development. Until recently, the brightest minds unencumbered by vested oil interests have strongly suggested, and with good documentation, that the world could well run out of extractable petroleum sometime around the mid twenty-first […]
One of the most important research and development efforts in the world today is the quest for the perfect battery to power electric cars. We all know that there is global warming, air pollution, and an increasing dependence on imported oil. We know that petroleum is a finite resource that will be depleted in this […]