My favourite technology story of 2024 evokes images from the late twenty-naughties, when scientists were grumbling about the supposed limitations of renewable hydrocarbons. Way back then, physicist Klaus Lackner had…
When a greenie says a project or process is “So-o energy-intensive,” we are expected to give up and buy a bicycle. Or a train ticket. That’s not necessary. Chemical engineers…
Consumers want climate change to go away. We have very good reasons to expect that sensible climate engineering will make that happen. We have an international agreement telling us exactly…
Climate engineers already have a range of tools which are fully capable of satisfying consumer demand for climate stability. We should not assume that all potential climate engineering tools have…
People want climate change to go away. On news websites, TV and radio news, social media, and everywhere people get information, it is impossible to avoid stories about human-made climate…
Humans have been modifying their habitat for hundreds of thousands of years. House-building began at least four hundred thousand years ago, and people learned to control fire more than a…