Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…90% of the market.  In 1935 the elements tied.  With business as usual, hydrogen will garner 90% of the market around 2100. Because carbon becomes soot or the feared greenhouse gas CO2,…

Energy and Environment: The Light Path

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

…the time population reaches 10 billion, the urban share may be 70 or 80 percent. We will live in a world of many enormous urban agglomerations. City size and density…

Does Energy Policy Matter?

…comment. Most obviously, the Russian Revolution and World War II literally drove Russians back into the woods to collect their fuel. Yet, these extreme shocks were later absolutely absorbed. By…

Because the Brain Does Not Change, Technology Must

JH Ausubel. Production Efficiencies: The Engineers' Report, American Association of Engineering Societies, Washington, D.C. 14–18 1999 Republished in: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic SYSTEMS 14(10):3-6, October 1999. The paper is based on a talk Jesse gave at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development meetings in New York in April 1999.

…During the past half-century, ratios of crops to land for the world’s major grains-corn, rice, soybean, and wheat-have climbed fast on all six of the farm continents. Per hectare, world

CASE STUDY: Evaluating Environmental Equity in Allegheny County

…severe environmental problems through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through a unique public/private partnership, major socioeconomic and infrastructural changes since World War II–the “Pittsburgh Renaissance”–have vastly improved the…

Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 14: 187–198 1992

…up in public squares. Prostitution is less subtle than in the past. The black market exchange rate appeared to make the average monthly Russian salary about 10 or 20 dollars,…

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. 

…larger role in a world in which work offers short–lived identity and stability. The need is for institutions which impart continuity. I have only hinted at the essential cause of…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…relates to markets. The needs are for facilitation of information flows and improvements in rules for markets, in particular, markets for water. In many nations, water is allocated largely through…

Fox TV report on DNA House Project

Fox TV reported 23 February 2010 in their evening news on the discoveries of the DNA House project of Brenda Tan and Matt Cost in a well-composed video by reporter…