…of the highest volt age that is operational. Although various factors lower actual line capacity in practice, this indicator provides a consistent measure of power capacity for analysis of long-term…
…match this optimism with a caution and a business opportunity. Expanding demand for gas, at perhaps 4%/yr, will require construction and operation of pipelines and other means for shipment with…
…the Alaska pipeline. It is easy to understand why oil defeated coal by 1950 as the lead energy source for the world. Yet, despite many improvements from well-head to gasoline…
…noticed. Now presidents and energy ministers declaim decarbonization. I conclude, in general, politicians legitimate what is happening anyway. But, a nation may be above or below the fated line, a…
…Education of Scientists and Engineers and Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States, NAS, Washington, D.C., 1995). The bottom line is that alma mater is doctoring too many children. Malthus’s classic…
…fall, tempering the effect of population and affluence on the national consumption. The general decline throughout the century of solid wood products per GDP and the decline since the mid-1950s…
…existing or potential environmental inequities, they must first be identified and measured. While this process goes on, the policies and practices that have permitted or encouraged such problems to develop…
…of establishing baseline information on the distribution of marine biodiversity. For most marine animals, we lack current, reliable maps of the species’ distribution. While the world now has negotiated an…
…a line fitted by a logistic equation. The scale used renders the conventional S-shaped curve of the logistic equation into a straight line. Source: Ausubel, American Scientist, March-April 1996. A grand…
…information engineers. What do the past and future agricultural revolutions mean for land? To produce their present crop of wheat, Indian farmers would need to farm more than three times…