Jeremy Rifkin: The third industrial revolution
We need to implement reglobalization from the bottom-up in order to achieve a more sustainable global economy. Geopolitics is an extension of the
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Energy
Scarcity Bites – A Decade Too Soon!
Peak Plutonium? It is our contention that energy is not the only resource that will be scarce in the immediate future. We envisage
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Nature: 2020 visions
For the first issue of the new decade, Nature asked a selection of leading researchers and policy-makers where their fields will be ten
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Bacteria is put to work turning microgears
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33eRZDZ9wWg] Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University have discovered that common bacteria can turn microgears
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The great carbon bazaar
Evidence of serious flaws in the multi-billion dollar global market for carbon credits has been uncovered by a BBC World Service investigation. Source:
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What does $120 oil mean for the global economy?
During the 1990’s an increase in oil prices of $10 reduced growth of real GDP by approximately one-half percent. Hence the concern after
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New photovoltaics change solar costs
New photovoltaic technologies, such as the recent introduction of thin-film cadmium–telluride (CdTe) materials, have nearly doubled the efficiency of solar cells within the
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The end of oil is just a game
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxFxrp5kDSo] Read about the new game Frontline: Fuel of War on CNN: Over the last two decades prior to 2030 oil production has
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The End of Oil is Upon Us
If there are any lingering doubts as to whether the age of oil is nearing its end, the International Energy Agency has put
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Depleting oil supplies threaten ‘meltdown in society’
It is downhill all the way for oil, according to a study by the Energy Watch Group (EWG) in Berlin, Germany. It reported
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