Published by kayesdee April 29th, 2008
in energy and future technology.
The Global Business Network published an interesting scenario analysis:
Scenario one: Current economic and energy trends continue with no major regulatory shifts in climate policy
Scenario two: Investment flows overseas make it difficult for most U.S. companies to adjust to an energy and carbon constrained world
Scenario three: Severe weather events and international economic crises bankrupt many U.S. companies and institutions
Scenario four: An innovative focus on clean and efficient technology fosters a new era of economic prosperity and self-reliance in a carbon-constrained global marketplace
Go check out the full report here.
How will your actions help shape a better future?
Published by kayesdee April 29th, 2008
in future technology, link and literature.
Chek out ologeez, a new (open source?) social website where you can review and discuss papers.
If this works as intended I would love to get this thing working in my employer’s intranet. Might be a perfect way to really get some discussions going on. Think patent reviews, what’s hot etc.
Chemists, in general, don’t like statistics. I guess they may be the horde of natural scientists who despise statistics the most… even though many of us could profit from a better understanding. Once you are out there in industry things change much: efficient use of resources becomes as much a necessity as anywhere else.
Here is my question to those chemists out there (in academia): what problems do you tackle with stat-fu?
And here are some links that may be of interest:
Published by kayesdee April 26th, 2008
in other blogs.
Another great blog discovered: MaterialsGuru, about great, new innovations in plastics, materials and more. Its perspective is more business instead of science — a very welcome addition to the blogosphere!
