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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
- Study: Renewable Energy Not Green
- Renewable energy could wreck the environment, according to a study that examined how much land it would take to generate the renewable resources that would make a difference in the global energy system.
- 2007-08-02 to bestof, energy by bagoly
- Ethanol Scam: Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of America's Biggest Political Boondoggles
- Ethanol is nothing more than 180-proof grain alcohol. To avoid the prospect of drunks sucking on gas pumps, fuel ethanol is "denatured" with chemical additives (if you drink it, you'll end up dead or, at best, in the hospital). It can be distilled from
- 2007-08-02 to bestof, business, energy, ethanol by bagoly
- Nancy Rhones: Your Guide to Never Feeling Tired Again
- 22 ways to tackle life's biggest energy zappers.
- 2007-07-04 to bestof, energy, health, tiredness by soobrosa
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