The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered From Climate Change to Species Extinction, How Life Persists in an Ever-Changing World Author Daniel Botkin’s “Magisterial and Beautifully Written” Examination of Our Role in Nature in an Age of Ideology [For Immediate Release] In a world constantly confronted by global environmental problems, establishing … [Read more...]
The Risk of Losing Solar Manufacturing Abroad
Recently, Dan had an opportunity to sit down with students from the Energy: Today and Tomorrow class at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland. The course, taught by Department of Geography lecturer Tracy Edwards, examines many of the questions and challenges of alternative energy discussed in Dan's book Powering The Future: A Scientist's Guide to Energy … [Read more...]
Ocean Power Gets A Jolt With A New Turbine
UPDATE: On Tuesday, August 14, 2012, the ocean electric generating turbine was successfully lowered into the Bay of Fundy, just off of Eastport, Maine. Costing $21 million, and benefitting from $10 million in U.S. Dept. Of Energy subsidy, Ocean Renewable Power Company will begin generating some 180 kilowatts, enough to power about 30 homes, according to The New York … [Read more...]
Alternative Energy That Works For People
Click here for a demonstration Home Wind Turbine, Boca Raton, FLThis is a new section of my website. It tells about people’s experiences with alternative energy.Here is the first:Amherst, Massachusetts home, not the sunniest of locations. On a barn roof next to the house are 24 SunPower model 230 Solar Panels, covering 20.9 feet (6.4 m) by 15.3 feet (4.68 m) or … [Read more...]
An Environmental Success Story: Saving Mono Lake
Mono Lake, salty and alkaline and California’s second-largest lake, became the center of controversy in the 1970s. It supported the world’s second-largest breeding colony of California gulls and was habitat to other bird species. Mono Lake was also beautiful, a large open body of water in desert landscape below the east slope of the Sierra Nevada, its shores lined in place with … [Read more...]
Energy and Humanity: The Next One Thousand Years
This video interview was just recently made available from an interview I did for the Foundation for the Future at their Humanity and the Biosphere Conference a few years back.At the conference, scholars from five continents participated in the seminar “Humanity and the Biosphere: The Next Thousand Years,” jointly sponsored and conducted by the Foundation For the Future … [Read more...]
Global Warming and an Odd Bull Moose
What one angry animal taught me about nature and its infinite complexities One pleasant June evening years ago, I took a break from ecological research at Isle Royale National Park and went canoeing in a large inlet named Washington Harbor, hoping to see some of the moose populating that isolated wilderness island in Lake Superior. Upstream, an old cedar arched gracefully over … [Read more...]
Absolute Certainty Is Not Scientific
Global warming alarmists betray their cause when they declare that it is irresponsible to question them. One of the changes among scientists in this century is the increasing number who believe that one can have complete and certain knowledge. For example, Michael J. Mumma, a NASA senior scientist who has led teams searching for evidence of life on Mars, was quoted in the New … [Read more...]