Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…develop leak-proof CO2 sequestration industries and the petrochemists to make more efficient processes suitable for plants two orders of magnitude larger than present fertilizer plants.  Like the jumbo jets that carry the…

Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms

JH Ausubel. World Energy Council Journal July: 8–16 1998

…or manufactured by nuclear plants, and other electromotive propulsion, promise to multiply automotive efficiencies soon. Fuel cells can produce zero pollutants and correspondingly reduce carbon emissions from transport. To stabilize…

Community Risk Profiles: Summary

…United States Environmental Protection Agency. 1987. Baltimore Integrated Environmental Management Project: Phase I Report, Executive Summary. United States Environmental Protection Agency. 1987. Unfinished Business: A Comparative Assessment of Environmental Problems…

Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…hours. Projecting electricity demand matters because it influences investments in capacity. Accurate projections might have lessened the pain for the utilities, which ordered and then canceled plants; the equipment suppliers,…

Special Report

…benefit. The warmer it gets, the more air conditioners people buy. And the more air conditioners they buy, the warmer it gets: Air conditioners, after all, are major consumers of…

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.

…highly efficient methane economy, the next stage of decarbonization. Landless agriculture As we must spare carbon while producing our energy, so must we spare land for nature while producing our…

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…and Development Review 22(3):531-545, 1996. [xiii] www.swissmetro.com [xiv] J. H. Ausubel, The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects, Fisheries 26 (7): 33-36, 2001. [xv] D. G. Victor and J. H. Ausubel, Restoring the Forests, Foreign Affairs 79(6): 127-144, 2000….

Some Ways to Lessen Worries about Climate Change [PDF]

JH Ausubel. The Electricity Journal 14 (1): 24–33 2001

…of ways lessens worries by positive means of providing a needed service or product rather than the negative means of issuing scary press releases and shutting down a plant. Let…

Community Risk Profiles: Appendices

Professor Emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Interdisciplinary Programs in Health from 1977 to 1990. He is also…