Vaclav Smil

In his January 10 New York Times blog spot "Beyond the Eternal Food Fight," Andrew Revkin appeals to whom he considers to be the Alpha and Omega of food and disaster experts, Lester Brown and Vaclav Smil.

Eric Holt Gimenez: Perpetuating the Eternal Food Fight Eric Holt Gimenez 2011

Energy expert Vaclav Smil calculates that achieving that goal in a decade--former Vice President Al Gore's proposal--would incur building costs and write-downs on the order of $4 trillion.

The Green Energy Economy Reconsidered 2011

Natural catastrophes might seem like good candidates for concern, but I ' ve been persuaded by Vaclav Smil, in " Global Catastrophes and Trends, " that the odds are very low of a large meteor strike or a massive volcanic eruption at Yellowstone.

Africa Needs Aid, Not Flawed Theories Bill Gates 2010

Nick Schulz, in his review of Vaclav Smil ' s " Prime Movers of Globalization " Bookshelf , Dec. 1, credits Frank Whittle with inventing the gas turbine.

There Were a Few Turbojet Pioneers 2010

Under the ominous title Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, Vaclav Smil, a versatile geographer at the University of Manitoba, provides a broad, factual vision of the 'major factors that will shape the global future [to 2050] and ... their probabilities and potential impacts.'

Disaster Watch Cohen, Joel E. 2009

The great Canadian thinker on energy, Vaclav Smil, wrote 'Only infrequently is human history marked by truly decisive departures from long-lasting patterns.

Bernie Bulkin: Government Assisted Suicide? GM Goes Bankrupt 2009

Ultimately humanity would be burying more than twice the amount of CO2 that it digs up in coal, more than eight times the amount of yearly volume handled by the global crude oil industry (according to Vaclav Smil).

David Roberts: Blackout: Dwindling Coal Reserves and the Siren Song of "Clean Coal" 2009

If a technical book is more your style, then grab a copy of Enriching the Earth by Vaclav Smil.

A bookish blog post | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

The environmental scientist Vaclav Smil has documented the important differences between fossil and renewable energies, and their implications for the next energy transition.

Energy transitions past and future 2008

Moore's curse and the great energy delusion: from the venture capital firms of Silicon Valley to the halls of Congress, hopes are high that a new energy ... article from: The American (Washington, DC) by Vaclav Smil

OpEdNews - Quicklink: A Stimulus to What?-�� Delusions Prevail in Washington 2008