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.

…number of scientific and technological discoveries, 1400- 1900. Source of data: L. Darmstaedter, 1908. Fear that humanity was running out of inventions partly motivated Darmstaedter’s history. Scientists and engineers themselves…

The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products

IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel. Journal of Forestry 98 (10): 8–14 2000

…USDA Forest Products Laboratory. KAFUS INDUSTRIES. 1999. Kafus options 147,000 acres in Arizona as proposed site for increased kenaf fibre production. News release. Available online at www. Kafus.com/pr/news.html. MOULTON, R.J.,…

Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…means big individual ZEPPs because the size of generating plants grows even faster than use, though in spurts.  Plants grow because large is cheap, if technology can cope.   Although the last wave…

Can Technology Spare the Earth?

JH Ausubel. Am Sci 84 (2): 166–178 1996 Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.

…American diet could allow cropland the area of Australia to revert to wilderness. Per hectare, annual world grain yields in fact rose 2.15 percent 1960-1994. If dynamics continue as usual,…

FISH-BOL now online

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/….