Does Climate Still Matter?
…or years. Larger and more costly innovations, like electric refrigerators, may take 20 or 30 years to become pervasive. At the other end of the spectrum, large systems, like those…
…or years. Larger and more costly innovations, like electric refrigerators, may take 20 or 30 years to become pervasive. At the other end of the spectrum, large systems, like those…
…use of the new data to explain and predict changes in populations and relations among them would probably cost little. A major outcome of the program would be an on-line…
…this time, I want to make another point about predictability of technological evolution. Industries such as the chemical and airframe industries use learning curves giving the cost evolution of a…
…fisheries, which contributed to their decline. Canada and Spain came to the brink of serious conflict over the cod on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland in the early 1990s. Widespread…
…take known risks (such as smokers)? Are addicts volunteers? 15. Cost. Theoretically, decisions to reduce risk are supposed to be based upon the cost per unit of reduced risk. But it’s…
…1990); US Department of Transportation, National Transportation Statistics (Washington, DC: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1999). Online at https://www.bts.gov/btsprod/nts/. Figure 4. The maximum size of power plants, US. Each line represents…
We post Jesse’s “Nuclear and Renewable Heresies“, delivered as a plenary address to the Canadian Nuclear Association 10 March 2005 in Ottawa….
…time. However, achieving further advances, especially cost effectively, in reducing mortality and morbidity and improving other measures of health and environmental quality will require new strategies that can address the…
…energy sector anyway, with regard to preferred primary fuels as well as efficiency. What appear as costs in our current cost-benefit calculus for mitigating, and adapting to, the greenhouse effect…
…the program will be the field projects, which are likely to cost about $5-$25 million each. While Sloan and other private funders can catalyze the Census, most of the support…