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Can Organic Electronics Promise Cleaner Energy?

April 5, 2010 by Jonathan Smith
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A topic of interest for this blog since 2007, the potential for conductive polymers to cut the cost of solar power system could bring about a widespread adoption of BIPV (Building Integrate Photo Voltaic) systems. It, thus, was of interest to note a Science Daily article about a new way to make electronic devices from plastics. PVL (... [read more]

NATURE: Sea level rise may exceed worst expectations

December 17, 2009 by Rebecca Lutzy
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Just when you thought the news in Copenhagen couldn't get worse, a brand new paper released in Nature suggests that the polar ice sheets are more vulnerable to global warming than previously feared.  2 degrees Celsius of global warming could commit us to 6-9 meters (20-30 feet) of long-term sea level rise. The study is based on an... [read more]

Counting All the Carbon

October 29, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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An editorial in this morning's Wall St. Journal reminded me that I had intended to update my readers on the latest installment in the ongoing saga concerning the global land-use impact of biofuels. The Journal's comments referred to a paper in the latest issue of Science entitled, "Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error", which... [read more]

The law of unintended consequences and Waxman-Markey

October 23, 2009 by Tim Haab
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From Environmental Capital at the WSJ:The law of unintended consequences strikes yet again. Global plans to tackle climate change, from the Kyoto Protocol to the recently-passed Waxman-Markey bill, have a fatal flaw: They essentially encourage large-scale deforestation, which pretty much undermines the whole idea of curbing greenhouse-... [read more]

Targeting high polluters globally, Princeton researchers propose a new way to break the developing:developed world impass

July 15, 2009 by Rebecca Lutzy
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Princeton researchers are recommending a new approach to “common but differentiated” responsibilities for developed and developing countries, based on individual emissions and described in "Sharing Global CO2 Emissions Among 1 Billion High Emitters,” first published online in PNAS last week (PDF) and covered by the New York Times... [read more]

Zombies at Princeton use Accounting Gimmicks

March 25, 2008 by Jonathan Smith
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When I relayed David Roberts’ observation that “coal is the enemy of the human race“, I provided the following caution “Make no mistake, the intensive lobbying for CTL (Coal To Liquids) in the Senate was just the first salvo. (Cue the “Syllogism of Doom” theme.) Remember, only you can prevent zombies. Meanwhile, as the Washington... [read more]