Interview by Heinz Horeis

…version of Heinz’s longer English conversation with Jesse. A couple of excerpts: “In twenty years, [renewable] sources will have failed economically, leaving renewable energy to be remembered as the energy…

Technical Progress and Climatic Change

JH Ausubel. Energy Policy 23 (4/5): 411–416 1995 Also pp. 501-512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.

…further pulse of speed. Quantum computing looms beyond (Lloyd, 1993). When Darmstaedter wanted to telephone, he was no doubt excited by the speed and distance his message could travel but…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…city. Most of the space is in buildings completed in the last 20-30 years. These new buildings are filled with new equipment, for example, new telephone systems. Indeed, even older…

Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland

…for Farming Food Matt Ridley It’s a brave scientist who dares to announce the turning point of a trend, the top of a graph. A paper published this week does…

Godfather – The Scientist

…complain about. The computer has ruled. You have received the justice of the machine.” Regelmässig was reduced by this cruel irony, but spoke again, softly. “Yes, I have received justice….

Visions of the 21st Century

…whatever else goes into your trash cans. An equivalent weight of water could fill 68,000 Olympic-size pools. And that’s just the relatively benign municipal solid waste. Each year American industries…

I Figli strappati

In 1982 Jesse translated from Italian into English about 200 pages from the unpublished diaries of Fey von Hassell, who had grown up in Rome in the 1930s as daughter…

Kingdom of the Oceans

The spectacular 4-hour video series with English narration deriving from the 480 hours of film taken by Jacques Perrin & Co. for the Galatee Oceans project will begin to air…