Charles C. Mann writes for
The Atlantic:
This perspective has a corollary: natural resources cannot be used up. If one deposit gets too expensive to drill, social scientists (most of them economists) say, people will either find cheaper deposits or shift to a different energy source altogether. Because the costliest stuff is left in the ground, there will always be petroleum to mine later. “When will the world’s supply of oil be exhausted?” asked the MIT economist Morris Adelman, perhaps the most important exponent of this view. “The best one-word answer: never.” Effectively, energy supplies are infinite.
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posted by the man of twists and turns
on Apr 29, 2013 -
86 comments
One spring afternoon more than 70 years ago, an East Texas teacher turned on an electric sander. The
subsequent explosion caused the New London School to lift into the air and then smash into the ground, ultimately leaving some 300 students and teachers dead in the
rubble. It remains the worst school disaster in American history.
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posted by SpringAquifer
on Feb 23, 2010 -
21 comments
Pickens Plan -- oilman T. Boone Pickens has a plan to reduce America's oil dependency problem: exploit the country's massive windpower potential for domestic energy, replacing natural gas, and then use natural gas to power cars instead of foreign oil. Some
problems with the plan.
posted by Laugh_track
on Jul 10, 2008 -
41 comments
Compressed Natural Gas is much more cleaner than diesel, the dual-fuel engines run quieter and you get lower operating costs. It's certainly very promising, and the technology is already widely implemented from busses to vans to trucks. However, changing a truck to this system can be
costly, especially for small fleets. With this and the lack of fueling stations across the nation, do you
still think this might be a good option for the
future?
posted by tiaka
on Jan 18, 2001 -
28 comments
