The Census of the Fishes: An Update
…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…
…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…
…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….
…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…
…of retailing these goods in the costly real estate of Dallas or New York. Sales of fuel wood in cities now are, of course, limited to decorative logs providing emotional warmth. Biomass…
…management and (lack of) leadership costs, especially tuition and overhead rates the rationale for and length of time to the doctoral degree employment terms for the academic workforce curriculum content…
…the nation and reflecting glory instead of disenchantment on the university. Another positive prescription is reducing the cost of research without a youthful army of exploited inductees minimizing labor cost….