There are four reasons for making this claim. Conservation in the Developed World is reducing demand even though growth in demand is occurring in the Developing World. We are discovering a lot more conventional fossil fuels by using new technology to add capacity. Hydraulic fractioning or fracking has expanded our ability to draw on natural
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The rising cost of fuel and energy impacts agriculture many ways. North American farms use lots of fossil fuel resources to produce incredible yields per acre of land. The same is true of farms in many other industrialized nations. In the developing world energy access is an inhibitor to creating increased crop yields. Fossil fuels
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When I was a younger man I wrote a short story about a girl who lived on Mars. Her father, a scientist, was in the business of changing the Martian atmosphere and his gift to his daughter was to give her a living tree outside the protected air envelope that was home to his family
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In a blog devoted to 21st century technology why are we discussing climate change? Because if climate is changing, and the evidence strongly suggests that, it will impact the planet in this century and beyond. Our response to climate change will play a critical role in determining new technologies that we apply to counter changing
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What is the current state of fossil fuels on Earth? Are we facing an oil crisis in the near future? In Part 2 of Energy in the 21st Century we try to answer these two questions.
Humanity has mastered fire and shaped it to become the means of our present civilization. But the burning of carbon-based fuels has enormous implications for the planet as our population grows, and as energy demands climb. We are in the throes of a paradigm shift around energy, how we create it and deploy it. In this chapter of 21st Century Tech we address our energy future.
