…course help to make hydrogen at night. The ability to store hydrogen would make the night shift productive. The nearness of overcapacity in the electrical system also creates suspicion that…
…obscure second-order effects. One example is how the expansion of graduate education created a market for low-cost provision of labor for research and teaching, which now strongly influences the size…
…require invention. It has been around for a long time. The Chinese have been doing very nicely raising herbivores, such as carp, for centuries. Following the Chinese example, one feeds…
Evolving efficiencies in our use of resources suggest that technology can restore the environment even as population grows (NOTE: The color figures are at the end of this document for…
…— not just for their ecological and industrial services but also for the sake of order and beauty. Fortunately, the twentieth century witnessed the start of a “Great Restoration” of…
…they legal, political, or economic. Studies such as this one often serve only to confirm the obvious and to imply a level of precision in the results that belies the…
…as wealth continues to rise, and the change in meat consumption decelerates. Chinese meat consumption is now rising less than half as fast as Chinese affluence; Indians have grown richer…
…cost money. The engineer nodded his head vigorously. He did not expect such a great favor for nothing. That was understood. A special document does not come cheap. Morgulyev was…
…national institutions within their own countries. Scientists in several European nations, including Norway, UK, and Portugal, have taken an especially strong interest. A Norwegian newspaper featured a well-informed article about…
…analyze the evolution of transistor density in state-of-the-art computer chips and how it corresponds to the famous ‘Moore’s Law.’ Coverage occurred in Chinese (TenCent News) and in German. An earlier…