Team Topics
First set (comments to inspire breadth)
- Coal
- recent news: fly ash
- Recent US coal reserves estimates
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- Oil
- What
about peak oil?
- What is sweet about "light sweet crude"?
- Gas
- Hunt recent news of significant new finds of gas in America.
- Could we get gas from Russians?
- Hydroelectricity
- Could USA achieve France's 20% electricity from hydro?
- Wind
- How important are costs of connecting to national grid?
- How about China's efforts
- Solar
- recent: reducing cost (WSJ 090809, cassandra sweet); flexible matls
- See links in Essays inside Essays page.
- Geothermal
- question: regional availability
- Greenhouse gases
- Do all experts agree on which are greenhouse gases? Why?
- What's happening in
Norway or
Europe? [China? or India?]
Second Set
- Population
- The new phrase is "safe operating space for humanity" (Planetary Boundaries
late September)
-
Megacities
Chocking India 13 May 2009
- Water
- Agriculture
- Aquaculture
- Hydrogen
- Fuel Cells
- OSU Buckeye Bullet
- Mass Transit
- A
maglev construction kit Not really for mass transit but interesting
application of one levitations scheme for another use
- Personal Transit
- Nuclear Waste
- Clean Buildings