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- Richard Martin: Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke
- If the US reactor fleet could be converted to LFTRs overnight, existing thorium reserves would power the US for a thousand years.
- 2010-01-24 to bestof, business, energy, nuclear by soobrosa
- Martin Sandbu: The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil
- Poor countries dream of finding oil like poor people fantasise about winning the lottery. But the dream often turns into a nightmare as new oil exporters realise that their treasure brings more trouble than help.
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, business, energy, iraq, norway, oil, portrait, story by soobrosa
- Gut Reactions
- Offer a termite this page, and its microbial helpers will break it down into two liters of hydrogen, enough to drive more than six miles in a fuel-cell car. If we could turn wood waste into fuel with even a fraction of the termite’s efficiency, we could r
- 2008-08-21 to animals, bestof, energy, science by bagoly
- The old man who farms with the sea
- Carl Hodges is growing salicornia, a crop nourished by ocean water that holds the potential to provide food and fuel to millions.
- 2008-07-18 to agriculture, bestof, biofuel, energy, global warming, science by bagoly
- Elizabeth Kolbert: The Island in the Wind
- A Danish community’s victory over carbon emissions.
- 2008-07-15 to bestof, carbon, energy, global warming, sustainability by soobrosa
- Michael Pollan: Why Bother?
- Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.
- 2008-04-22 to action, bestof, climate, energy, food, garden, global warming by soobrosa
- The Clean Energy Scam
- But several new studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it's dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it. Corn ethanol, always environmentally suspect, turn
- 2008-04-04 to bestof, business, energy, environment, global warming by bagoly
- George Monbiot: This crisis demands a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means
- Outdated figures have been hiding the full extent of climate change. But I am still advocating action, and not despair
- 2007-12-26 to energy, global warming, politics, power, society by soobrosa
- Owen Bowcott: Britain to claim more than 1m sq km of Antarctica
- The claim would be in defiance of the spirit of the 1959 Antarctic treaty, to which the UK is a signatory.
- 2007-11-04 to energy, global warming, oil, politics, power.play by soobrosa
- A massive wrench thrown in Putin's works
- These have been manic weeks in Ashgabat. The melodrama is acute. But then the inscrutable space between victory and the chimera of victory has always been very narrow in Central Asia.
- 2007-10-02 to asia, business, energy, politics, russia by bagoly
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