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3 Green Technologies That Will Change the World
<!--break--> Technology Review, an MIT publication, just released its annual list of 10 new technologies that will someday change the world. The list includes everything from 3-D smart phone screens to social television to electronic medical implants. Three green innovations, including two solar power applications, made it onto... [read more]
The winds of climate-change
<!--break--> A new MIT analysis may serve to temper enthusiasm about wind power, at least at very large scales. Ron Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, and principal research scientist Chien Wang of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, used a climate model to analyze the... [read more]
Establishing a Policy Objective
<!--break--> Last week I was in Washington for the 30th MIT Global Change Forum. This slightly more than annual event is a core part of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Shell has been a sponsor of the program for over a decade now and the forum is always rich in content and a valuable opportunity to... [read more]
Thermopower Waves: A New Discovery at MIT
<!--break--> Think of electrons as flotsam on a wave as it moves across the surface of the ocean. That's how scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describe a previously unknown phenomenon, which they are calling "thermopower waves." A thermal wave is a moving pulse of heat that travels along microscopic wires... [read more]Industry Reps at MIT Energy Conference: Give Us a Price on Carbon
<!--break--> The message from industry leaders attending the MIT Energy Conference this weekend is clear: "Give us a clear price on carbon." John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, has long been a proponent of cap-and-trade. He reiterated this support this morning in his opening keynote, saying he felt "a bit like Elizabeth Taylor's eighth... [read more]While We Consider, China Constructs
<!--break--> When Duke Energy and ENN Group announced their partnership to accelerate development of low-carbon and clean energy technologies at the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Duke CEO Jim Rogers explained that "We must move at 'China speed' to combat global warming." "China," Rogers explained, "is leading the world in... [read more]But what will it all cost?
<!--break--> Late last year I participated in a webcast with MIT Professor Henry Jacoby. The subject was the cost of action on climate change – or more specifically the cost of cap-and-trade. Professor Jacoby leads the The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. From the perspective of the program, the question... [read more]A decade of change
<!--break--> For most of the decade just passed I have been involved in the subject of climate change at Shell. This is unusual in one respect in that jobs in Shell normally have a tenure of 3-5 years, but this hasn’t exactly been a “normal job”. In fact, the job I have today bears little resemblance to the one I took on in June 2001... [read more]
Does climate change discriminate against the poor?
<!--break--> It’s still hard to say whether a warming climate will hurt the world’s economy. But if history is any guide, it’s likely to increase the gap between rich and poor. In a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, Ben Olken of MIT and Ben Jones of Northwestern University make an important... [read more]
Green Jobs Booming
<!--break--> But troubling outlook for manufacturing in the U.S. by David L. Levy Last week a student at our university sheepishly poked his head into my office and asked if I knew where the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC) was located, as he was interested in the new University of Massachusetts... [read more]
COP15: Hopehagen–or Flopenhagen?
<!--break--> So the verdict is in on the UN climate negotiations that just wrapped in Copenhagen and it’s all but unanimous: Carl Pope, Sierra Club: The world’s nations have concluded a historic–if incomplete–agreement to begin tackling global warming. Tonight’s announcement is but a first step and much work remains to be done... [read more]
A Blueprint for Nuclear Power Expansion
<!--break--> Nuclear power must be tripled globally to make a difference in reducing growth of greenhouse gases Nuclear power may be a critical component in America’s energy future, but its capacity as a reliable energy source is dependent on both technical and institutional factors. That is the assessment provided in a new research... [read more]
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