Energy Update Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/27-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 29 Jul 2022 05:48:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Energy Update Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/27-2/ 32 32 From the Hill – Winter 2011 https://issues.org/hill-55/ https://issues.org/hill-55/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/hill-55/ R&D funding faces budget cuts
In the wake of Republican gains in the 2010 midterm elections, funding cuts to rein in soaring federal budget deficits have jumped to the top of the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/hill-55/feed/ 0 Accelerating the Pace of Energy Change https://issues.org/koonin/ https://issues.org/koonin/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/koonin/ Scientists and engineers invariably see technology innovation as the primary, if not sole, driver of energy transformation, but changing the energy system involves much more. Economic, political, and business aspects determine whether … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/koonin/feed/ 0 Reducing Barriers to Online Access for People with Disabilities https://issues.org/lazar-online-internet-access-people-with-disabilities/ https://issues.org/lazar-online-internet-access-people-with-disabilities/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/lazar/ As ever more education, employment, communication, entertainment, civic participation, and government functions move primarily or exclusively online, the high levels of inaccessibility on the Web and in Internet-enabled mobile technologies threaten to… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/lazar-online-internet-access-people-with-disabilities/feed/ 2 Making Stories Visible: The Task for Bioethics Commissions https://issues.org/sethi/ https://issues.org/sethi/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/sethi/ A little before lunchtime on December 6, 1957, when the United States made its first attempt to match the triumph of Russia’s Sputnik 1 by launching its own Vanguard TV3 satellite into… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/sethi/feed/ 0 Archives – Winter 2011 https://issues.org/archives-53/ https://issues.org/archives-53/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/archives-53/ DAVID MAISEL, The Lake Project 3, Chromogenic print, 29 × 29 inches, 2001.
Image courtesy of the artist/Haines Gallery.
The Lake Project 3
Photographer David Maisel’s early work, such as the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/archives-53/feed/ 0 Time for Climate Plan B https://issues.org/bonvillian-4/ https://issues.org/bonvillian-4/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/bonvillian-4/ Policymakers in the United States and elsewhere have assumed for 15 years that putting a price on carbon would be an effective strategy for addressing climate change. Nations would price carbon emissions,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/bonvillian-4/feed/ 0 Contesting climate https://issues.org/br_lewis-15/ https://issues.org/br_lewis-15/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_lewis-15/ According to its dust jacket, The Climate War is “an epic tale of an American civil war.” Eric Pooley is said to “do for global warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents.”… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_lewis-15/feed/ 0 The Myth of Objective Scientists https://issues.org/br_pielke/ https://issues.org/br_pielke/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_pielke/ In Science, Policy and the Value-Free Ideal, Heather Douglas of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville seeks to challenge the belief that science should be “value-free,” meaning that it is guided only by… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_pielke/feed/ 0 New Voices, New Approaches https://issues.org/editorsjournal-39/ https://issues.org/editorsjournal-39/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/editorsjournal-39/ About six months ago in Tempe, Arizona, about two dozen young scientists, policy wonks, and communicators gathered for a “pitch slam.” In a hotel meeting room near the Arizona State University campus,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editorsjournal-39/feed/ 0 Fighting Innovation Mercantilism https://issues.org/ezell-2/ https://issues.org/ezell-2/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/ezell-2/ Despite the global economic downturn, indicators of global innovative activity have remained strong during the past two years. The total global output of scientific journal papers in all research fields for the… Read More

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