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The Grand Challenge of Biofuels

by Lee R. Lynd

(Dartmouth) – A robust second-generation biofuels industry based on inedible cellulosic biomass available as wood, grass, and various wastes was widely expected to be in place by now. Anticipated... Read more →

“Conditional Optimism” versus “Complacent Optimism” – In Consideration of Progress

by Paul Romer — 2 weeks ago

Paul Romer is an American economist, a pioneer of endogenous growth theory, and a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He received the prize “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.” ... Read more →

The Full Cost of Electricity, Annual Update

by University of Texas Austin — 2 weeks ago

(University of Texas at Austin) – Editor’s Note: We are pleased to provide the University of Texas, Austin’s latest update to its annual Full Cost of Electricity (FCe-). Extensive research shows a continuing decline in the... Read more →

This Latte Is A Gas

by Griffin Beck — 2 weeks ago

(SwRI) – Hydraulic fracturing, also called “frac’ing,” allows the U.S. to tap vast oil and gas reserves previously locked away in shale and other unconventional reservoirs by injecting high-pressure fluids into wells that run thousands... Read more →

Geothermal Energy Heats Up

by Bianca Nogrady — 2 weeks ago

(Ensia) – At 2:46 p.m. local time on Friday, March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by the largest earthquake ever to strike its shores. The 9.1 magnitude quake triggered a devastating tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people. It also took... Read more →

Changing the Climate of Capital

by Thomas Heller and Alicia Seiger — 2 weeks ago

(Stanford) – The causes and dangers of climate change have been broadly understood since the late 1970’s. For the purposes of this paper, we consider “the first period” of climate action starting with the United Nations Conference... Read more →

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