The Road to a New Energy System Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/26-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:10:07 +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 The Road to a New Energy System Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/26-1/ 32 32 Archives – Fall 2009 https://issues.org/archives-48/ https://issues.org/archives-48/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/archives-48/ DAVID MANN, Liquid Gravity, Oil, alkyd, acrylic on panel, 30 × 72 inches, 2001. Collection of the National Academy of Sciences.
Liquid Gravity
Central to the paintings by artist David Mann… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/archives-48/feed/ 0 Stimulating Innovation in Energy Technology https://issues.org/bonvillian-3/ https://issues.org/bonvillian-3/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/bonvillian-3/ Energy technology poses a special challenge to the U.S. innovation system. Fossil fuels are deeply imbedded in the economy and the political system. To the user, they are usually cheap, convenient, efficient,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/bonvillian-3/feed/ 0 Water Woes https://issues.org/br_jacobs/ https://issues.org/br_jacobs/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_jacobs/ True to his title, in Unquenchable, legal scholar and water expert Robert Glennon describes a cross-section of the nation’s water problems and offers several prescriptions. But Glennon is never dusty and … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_jacobs/feed/ 0 Russian Science Odyssey https://issues.org/br_johnson/ https://issues.org/br_johnson/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_johnson/ The complex rivalries and connections between Soviet and U.S. science and technology were a subject of intense worldwide interest during the era of “big science” and throughout the Cold War, and Science … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_johnson/feed/ 0 Embracing uncertainty https://issues.org/br_oye/ https://issues.org/br_oye/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_oye/ This book is a pudding with a theme. The pudding is a mélange of observations on the cultural, economic, and political implications of the Internet, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, space exploration, and various… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_oye/feed/ 0 A Pox on Smallpox https://issues.org/br_tucker-5/ https://issues.org/br_tucker-5/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_tucker-5/ Smallpox is a severe viral disease that claimed hundreds of millions of lives during the course of history. A uniquely human affliction, it killed a third of its victims and left the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_tucker-5/feed/ 0 Nanolessons for Revamping Government Oversight of Technology https://issues.org/davies/ https://issues.org/davies/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/davies/ In recent decades, the capabilities of U.S. federal agencies responsible for environmental health and safety have steadily eroded. The agencies cannot perform their basic functions now, and they are even less able… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/davies/feed/ 0 Why Is This So Hard? https://issues.org/editorsjournal-35/ https://issues.org/editorsjournal-35/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/editorsjournal-35/ If everyone from T. Boone Pickens to Vinood Khosla to Steven Chu agrees that the world needs to develop affordable, low-carbon, efficient, and sustainable energy technologies, why do we have to spend… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editorsjournal-35/feed/ 0 Forum – Fall 2009 https://issues.org/forum-fall-2009/ https://issues.org/forum-fall-2009/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/forum-54/ Too few fish in the sea

Carl Safina’s review of how traditional fisheries management strategies have failed both the fish and the fishermen is right on target, as are his recommendations for… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/forum-fall-2009/feed/ 0 Cloning DARPA Successfully https://issues.org/fuchs/ https://issues.org/fuchs/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/fuchs/ Confronted with the growing threat of global climate change, today’s policymakers face the challenge of how to create an energy system that emits less carbon and is more efficient, affordable, and secure.… Read More

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