Does Energy Policy Matter?

…so-called fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas, each have a typical ratio of hydrogen to carbon atoms. Coal’s H:C ratio is about 1 to 2, oil 2 to 1,…

Toward Green Mobility: The Evolution of Transport

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti, PS Meyer. European Review 6 (2): 143–162 1998

…fuel became widely available, although creosote and other preservatives lessened structural wood demand. Coal’s energy density doubled that of wood, and thus system range and flexibility. Belching coal smoke from…

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…the technologies that enable compliance. In a more general way, the chance that small leaks from our industrial system have large behavioral consequences intensifies my interest in industrial ecology.l6 Industrial ecology…

Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…system of fluids rather than solids began to become evident.  On the privacy of its rails, a locomotive could pull a coal car of equal size to fuel it.  Coal-powered automobiles, however,…

Industrial Ecology: Some Directions for Research

IK Wernick, JH Ausubel. With the Vishnu Group, The Rockefeller University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1997

…530-SW-86-04, USEPA, Washington, D.C. Chemical Manufacturers Association, Annual editions, United States Chemical Industry Statistical Handbook, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C. U.S. Bureau of Mines, Annual editions, Mineral Commodity Summaries, U.S. Government Printing…

Rare mineral species

…minerales raros de la Tierra hacen único al planeta azul (2,550 rare earth minerals make the blue planet unique ) ANSA Italia Anelli davvero unici? Dimentica i diamanti meglio un…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…young and mutual grooming. The third and largest area of our brains, the neocortex, is the part that makes humans unique. The neocortex makes possible intellectual tasks such as reading,…