Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…be stored efficiently, as today’s meager batteries show.  Electrical losses also occurin transmission; with the present infrastructure, a distance of 100 km is normal for transmission, and about 1,000 km is…

Verification of International Environmental Agreements

JH Ausubel, DG Victor. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 17: 1–43 1992

This paper was first published in 1992 in the Annual Review of Energy and Environment, https://www.annualreviews.org. The paper posted here was scanned and re-typeset in HTML. Every effort was made…

Death and the Human Environment: The United States in the 20th Century [PDF]

JH Ausubel, PS Meyer, IK Wernick. Technology in Society 23 (2): 131–146 2001

…1).  As we shall see, early in the century the hunter microbes had better success. Table 1.  U.S. death rate per 100,000 population for leading causes, 1900.  For source of…

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…of 100 million tons. Colorado spreads less than 1/10th of 1% as wide as the world ocean. The point is that the today’s depleting harvest of wild fishes and destruction…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…Technological inventions and innovations that have had roles in human ability to adapt to climate over the last 100 years or so range widely4: food preservatives (1873) to over come…

Energy and Environment: The Light Path

JH Ausubel. Energy Systems and Policy 15: 181–188 1991

…tighten the noose around coal. Its use should be restricted to plants meeting stringent requirements for environmental performance. Globally, perhaps 50 to 100 billion tons more coal may be used…

2020 declared Year of Quiet Ocean – News from International Quiet Ocean Experiment

…to find out  https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/what-happened-when-the-oceans-went-quiet-during-the-pandemic-scientists-set-to-find-out-76387 The National News, United Arab Emirates Oceans silenced by Covid to reveal impact of human activity on marine life https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/oceans-silenced-by-covid-to-reveal-impact-of-human-activity-on-marine-life-1.1199684 COSMOS Magazine, Australia Year of the…

The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products

IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel. Journal of Forestry 98 (10): 8–14 2000

…USDA Forest Products Laboratory. KAFUS INDUSTRIES. 1999. Kafus options 147,000 acres in Arizona as proposed site for increased kenaf fibre production. News release. Available online at www. Kafus.com/pr/news.html. MOULTON, R.J.,…

CoML-New Species in Australia

Our Census of Marine Life colleagues exploring Australia ’s reefs have discovered hundreds of undescribed corals and other species, including a little animal that eats the tongues of fish. Browse…