It’s the birthday of Isaac Newton, perhaps the best-known person in the history of science. Though there was other genius to his credit, Newton’s celebrity derived mainly from his insight into universal gravitation and thus the Laws of Motion that …
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Thomas Edison demonstrated his first incandescent light bulb on this date in 1879, a feat noteworthy for several reasons: This success came at the end of an enormous number of experiments whose results were disappointing. When someone suggested that Edison was …
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With respect to my recent post on Malthus (pictured), a college professor in Arizona writes: Craig, is there a Malthusian Trap for energy? Do we run out of energy or a habitable environment first? I’m confident that our civilization will turn …
In the comments to my post on new energy paradigms, a reader takes me to task: I find your comments disingenuous, Craig, as I have mostly seen you play the comfortable role of the skeptic when it comes to out-of-the-box …
It is true that humankind may be the beneficiary of a radical new approach to energy that will come along and save us from the vast environmental damage that our use of fossil fuels is wreaking upon our planet.
A reader notes: Renewable power generation technology faces three inherent problems: transmission, storage, and intermittent generating dynamics. Large scale economically viable storage solves the problems of all three to a major extent. We can but live in hope, and encourage all those …
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As an example of a strange communication between a reader and me, Mark writes: Hello Craig: You may recall we had some discussions earlier this year regarding an emerging new technology which we believed was going to revolutionize the way …
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Have you ever seen a presentation that was so powerful and compelling that you felt a strange impulse to memorize it verbatim? That’s exactly what just happened to me. Here’s a Ted Talk on the history of the universe (“Big …
From my Quora.com feed, in which I’ve volunteered to answer questions related to science, a young reader asks: Can we trap light and use it as an energy source? Ovis writes: Almost all sources of energy on Earth is in …
We live in a world in which more and more people need electricity to light their homes, and the demand always seems to be greater than the supply. Several billion people on the planet need lighting and electricity but do …
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