A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Look at our tax dollars at work.
This is a little old, but I ran across it on Jon Taplin’s blog recently and I think it does a good job of making an important point—fossil fuel, as an industry, isn’t self supporting. No matter where we get our energy from, we’re propping up production with tax dollars.
However, here’s a couple things to keep in mind with this graph…
Continue reading… “How We Subsidize Fossil Fuels”
Can the idea of ‘green motorsport’ actually work? Yes, according to EPSRC funded researcher, Dr Kerry Kirwan at the University of Warwick, who led the research team which designed and built the worldfirst fully sustainable Formula 3 racing car.
Continue reading… “World-first Sustainable Racing Car Runs On Chocolate, To Take On Formula 3”
Climate has been implicated by a new study as a major driver of wildfires in the last 2,000 years. But human activities, such as land clearance and fire suppression during the industrial era (since 1750) have created large swings in burning, first increasing fires until the late 1800s, and then dramatically reducing burning in the 20th century.
Continue reading… “Study Implicates Climate As A Major Driver Of Wildfires”
