Coal_Carbon Capture and Sequestration by Steven Chu U.S. Secretary of Energy and a Nobel Laureate in physics, G20?

Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Steven Chu

Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels have caused the climate to change, and a dramatic reduction of these emissions is essential to reduce the risk of future devastating effects. On the other hand, access to energy is the basis of much of the current and future prosperity of the world. Eighty percent of this energy is derived from fossil fuel. The world has abundant fossil fuel reserves, particularly coal. The United States possesses one-quarter of the known coal supply, and the United States, Russia, China, and India account for two-thirds of the reserves. Coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions.^* It is highly unlikely that any of these countries will turn their back on coal any time soon, and for this reason, the capture and storage of CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel power plants must be aggressively pursued.

Steven Chu is the U.S. Secretary of Energy and a Nobel Laureate in physics.

Source:
Science, 25 September 2009 (Volume 325, Issue 5948), free alerts

Public-transport prices_The road to green transportation?

The road to green transport certainly depends on the source of energy but price (ref1) tells us which citizens are most likely to use the greenest transportation means.., mass public transportation, especially rail.(ref2)

Sources

1. The Economist
2. Prof David JC MacKAY in Without Hot Air

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Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All _NY Times following Wharton's Stevenson and Wolfers et al.

Was the title of an article by David Leonhardt in The New York Times.April 2008. It brings our attention to a peer reviewed academic paper on money and happiness by Wharton-Univ of Pennsylvania academics, Stevenson and Wolfers (ref. below), putting figures to what many, if not most, already consider from experience, to be one primary common denominator in human affairs, underpinning much of human behaviour, namely money.

Without further a do, here is the overview figure taken from The NY Times:

From the academic study impressive correlations whereby coefficients around 0.7 -0.8 compared to certitude, the perfect correlation value of 1.0 (100%) are given for various poll surveys.

Stevenson and Wolfers academic work is an econometric study based on poll data and statistic treatment.





This re-opens this long debated issue and offers a window to several freely available peer reviewed academic papers and general press articles from major news papers on themes so fundamental to human existence.



When I come across work on theses themes I cannot help thinking of Dale Carnegie's old list of human desires for memory:

1. Health and the preservation of life.
2.Food.
3.Sleep.
4.Money and the things money can buy.
5. Life in the hereafter.
6 Sexual gratification
7 The Well Being of our children
and last but not least
8.A feeling of importance, a desire to be important

or again Maslows triangle


More... cf. refs....

1. David Leonhardt NY Times 16 April 2008.
NB.The NY Times article won 435 comments before it’s closure.

2. Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox by STEVENSON WOLFERS University of Pennsylvania[Pdf]
NB. 102 page review,3pages of refs., 23 Figures…
Pub. In Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2008

3. Easterlin Paradox via Wikipedia
NB. serveral worthwhile refs on Wikipedia.

4. Easterlin’s seminal academic paper

5. Other sources Pew study.

6. Dale Carnegie "How to win friends and influence people.

Main data sources:

7. World Values Survey

8. Gallup International

9. Gallup World Poll Research Design