A new glass battery developed by John Goodenough, one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for the invention of the lithium-ion battery, is moving into the commercialization stage of development with Canadian electric utility Hydro-Quebec. The new glass battery was developed by Goodenough – who is 97 years old and still an active professor […]
Wild Spaces Left Undeveloped Have Higher Dollar Value, Scientists Calculate
British scientists have once again made the commercial case for conserving wilderness. They have demonstrated that in its pristine state—mangrove swamps, wetlands, savannahs, forests, and so on—nature left alone is of more value to humankind than as exploited real estate. This argument has been made already, and more than once. But this time the researchers can provide the detail for their […]
The Atlantic reporter Robertson Meyer: The Big Idea From Bill Gates’s New Climate Book
Lately, Bill Gates has been thinking about what he calls the “hard stuff” of climate change. He isn’t talking about the challenges that we usually discuss in this newsletter, such as how to generate zero-carbon electricity (use wind, solar, and some nuclear). Nor does he mean the associated political challenges of overcoming partisan opposition. No, he means the […]
How should economists think about biodiversity?
This excellent short article shows that the idea that there is more than economics is finally sinking in with some economists and decision-makers. For centuries theologians spent much of their time developing the metrics which would model the number of Angels who could fit on the head of a pin. In like for, many in […]
CO2 emissions: nations’ pledges ‘far away’ from Paris target, says UN
The first assessment of countries’ pledges to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, a vital component of the Paris climate agreement, has found they are only a fraction of the effort needed to avoid climate breakdown. If all of the national pledges submitted so far were fulfilled, global emissions would be reduced by […]
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