Wired Magazine reports on the ambitious plans of one John Piña Craven: The key to Craven’s cool world is converting the ocean’s thermal energy. The first step: Sink a pipe at least 3,000 feet deep and start pumping up seawater. The end result: an environmentally sustainable, virtually inexhaustible supply of electricity, freshwater for drinking and […]
In the current issue of MIT’s Technology Review, Stewart Brand goes on record with a rather startling prediction: Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaniÂzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. I certainly hope Brand is […]
Rand Simberg provides an excellent critique of rhetoric about “renewable resources” on Tech Central Station. The money quote has to do with how and where the environment has actually changed, both for the better and the worse: The environment in the industrialized world, and particularly the US, today is in fact cleaner, our health better, […]
…seeing as we have a name for them, too. But I wonder what their name for us, translated literally, means? Subdivision Deer? SUV Bears? Really Big Hairless Raccoons with Guns?
…seeing as we have a name for them, too. But I wonder what their name for us, translated literally, means? Subdivision Deer? SUV Bears? Really Big Hairless Raccoons with Guns?
A panel of international experts has published a detailed report showing that our lovely planet is rapidly going to hell without even providing the common courtesy of a handbasket: * Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and raising risks of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, deforestation or “dead zones” […]
A panel of international experts has published a detailed report showing that our lovely planet is rapidly going to hell without even providing the common courtesy of a handbasket: * Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and raising risks of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, deforestation or “dead zones” […]