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For several years a Chicago entrepreneur has labored quietly building a company to create an alternative to batteries for powering cell phones and other small gadgets. The company deliberately kept a low profile because its core technology, first called cold fusion 18 years ago, has long been ridiculed by mainstream scientists. The phenomenon now is called low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR).
The new suburban poverty
Death in cyburbia
Unprovoked beatings of homeless soaring
Stephen Colbert vs. No Impact Man
Sharon Astyk: Production, consumption and Amish economics
Greener planet begins under the kitchen sink
British brides say “I do” to green weddings
E-waste win points way
SF is first city to ban plastic shopping bags
Mercury in energy-saving bulbs worries scientists
Bill to ban regular light bulbs introduced in House
The steps Bill [McKibben proposes] — local food and local energy — are generally good ones, but they alone are not going to get us anywhere close to one planet living. For that, we need truly radical change, delivered through widespread innovation and systemic redesign, and going far beyond the sorts of impacts we can create though individual consumer actions.
£25 fridge gadget that could slash greenhouse emissions
Catalyst could help turn CO2 into fuel
Science turns sun, surf into green energy
Innovation in hard times?
Do environmentalists conspire against their own interests?
Sharon Astyk: On market failure
Lovelock: ‘We should be scared stiff’
Report: Burying greenhouses gases will be key
Interview with MIT coal report co-chair
Afghan Mine mirrors nation’s descent into hell
Study: Coal industry faces bleak future
The thrust of the article is what we have come to expect from a lot of the mainstream media. I hope the article stimulates a high-level conversation that is not just a short-term critical shot, much as that is easy and warranted.
The examples the New York Times article provides correspond to isolated incidences where advanced technology can get some “reasonably” large amount of extra oil out of an old field.
The peak oil community takes issue with the article in the March 5 New York Times: “Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells.”
Technical background from an oil geologist that puts the New York Times article into perspective.
