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Synthetic Fuel from CO2 and Solar Energy? Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:09 AM PDT Really amazing are the innovative ways solar power is put into use. Now a team of scientists working in Sandia National Laboratories is focusing on exploring basic steps to make synthetic liquid fuel with the help of solar panels. The goal is that this will help [...]
Listening to the Voice of Humanity
By Steven Kull This article was originally published in the Spring | Summer 2010 issue of Kosmos Journal When we look at world conditions and project current trends into the future we see much that is disturbing--environmental degradation, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, persisting poverty and injustice, violent conflict, the fiscal [...]
To You from NewEnergyNews: June 16, 2010
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * TODAY’S HEADLINE: SUSTAINABILITY AT THE LIMITS OF CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION * QUICK NEWS, 6-16: EU WIND IN 2010; TOLEDO, OHIO, CENTER OF SUN; COAL IS BETTER THAN WOOD; HIKE WITH AN ENERGY CHARGER YESTERDAY * HEADLINE: EU WIND'S ADMIRABLE [...]
To You from NewEnergyNews: June 8, 2010
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * TODAY’S HEADLINE: A VISION OF SUN * QUICK NEWS, 6-8: NEW ENERGY RES GOOD FOR DAKOTA; ALASKA BACKS GEOTHERMAL; WORLD EE UP IN 2010; CLIMATE/ENERGY BILL PRICES GHG SPEW YESTERDAY * HEADLINE: PUMPED HYDRO AND NEW ENERGY * QUICK NEWS, 6-7: SCRUB SCRUB [...]
News from Our Colleagues at The Club of Rome
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Newsflash No 85 from European Support Centre of the Club of Rome is available. Please view the complete Newsflash at http://www.clubofrome.at/news/newsflash85.html or select a topic via one of the links below. (more...)
Giant Inflatable Airship Powered by Algae
Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:42 PM PDT This summer, piloted by Captain Allan Judd, Bullet 580 will usher in the return of inflatable giant airships. The 235 ft long and 65ft diameter ship is covered with a type of Kevlar, a material 10 times-stronger than steel but only one sixteenth of an inch thick. An E-green design special costing [...]
Searching for Sustainability – A New Report from the Tellus Institute
The global future lies before us as a highly uncertain and contested landscape. This study examines four contrasting possibilities in quantitative detail, revealing vividly the risks of conventional approaches and the dangers of descent. At the same time, the paper underscores that a Great Transition scenario, a turning toward a civilization of [...]
Americans and the World in Difficult Times
By Steven Kull This paper was first presented on May 14th, 2010 at the Center for International Security Studies Second Annual Symposium at Princeton University (more...)
FUTURIST UPDATE June 2010
Read online: www.wfs.org/futuristupdate.htm Pass this newsletter along! FUTURIST UPDATE may be freely shared if forwarded in its entirety. In This Issue: * The Edward Cornish Award for Futurist of the Year * FUTURIST Magazine Published in Turkish * Visions of Europe * Dator, Henderson, Coates Honored * 2010 High-School Essay Contest [...]
Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost
Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost Posted: 23 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT In a market-friendly scenario, Nanosolar claims to be able to produce electricity at 5-6 cents/kilowatt hour almost as cheap as power from coal and at about one-third the cost of other solar power. Nanosolar claims: Nanosolar claims mass production of solar power will [...]
