How Will We Power the Future?
Alex Smith | 01.03.2013 00:19 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield
In-depth interview with Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin on his book "Powering the Future: How We Will Eventually Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow." Dr. Rose M. Cory's new science on positive feedback loop discovered in the melting Arctic. Plus song "No Such Thing As Waste" by Australia's Formidable Vegetable Sound System. Radio Ecoshock 130227
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Worried about prices at the pump? Or is it still way too cheap to save a livable climate? Even big fossil fuel executives wonder if we'll find enough energy, or retain an economy to pay for it.
An in-depth conversation with a surprising mind, about your energy future. I phoned up to argue with physicist and Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin of Stanford University. That's a mistake, because he's the expert, and anyway, Robert wants to argue. Learn a lot. His book is: "Powering the Future: How We Will Eventually Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow."
Later in this program, we talk with Dr. Rose Cory, lead author of a newly published paper. She found another surprise agent whipping up the production of greenhouse gases in the far North. It's yet another positive feedback loop in the rapidly changing Arctic.
That is a recipe for a climate shift unseen for millions of years. We are already half way there. The permafrost is melting - and wafting up into the atmosphere.
The show includes a new song, from an upcoming tour of North America and Britain, by a hot new Australian band, at permaculturesongs.com. It's called "No Such Thing As Waste".
Hear the Formidable Vegetable Sound System 26 June at Glastonbury Festival,
or 27 July - Secret Garden Party.
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130227_Show.mp3 Or try the faster downloading, lower quality Lo-Fi version (14MB)
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130227_Show_LoFi.mp3 Worried about prices at the pump? Or is it still way too cheap to save a livable climate? Even big fossil fuel executives wonder if we'll find enough energy, or retain an economy to pay for it.
An in-depth conversation with a surprising mind, about your energy future. I phoned up to argue with physicist and Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin of Stanford University. That's a mistake, because he's the expert, and anyway, Robert wants to argue. Learn a lot. His book is: "Powering the Future: How We Will Eventually Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow."
Later in this program, we talk with Dr. Rose Cory, lead author of a newly published paper. She found another surprise agent whipping up the production of greenhouse gases in the far North. It's yet another positive feedback loop in the rapidly changing Arctic.
That is a recipe for a climate shift unseen for millions of years. We are already half way there. The permafrost is melting - and wafting up into the atmosphere.
The show includes a new song, from an upcoming tour of North America and Britain, by a hot new Australian band, at permaculturesongs.com. It's called "No Such Thing As Waste".
Hear the Formidable Vegetable Sound System 26 June at Glastonbury Festival,
or 27 July - Secret Garden Party.
Alex Smith
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