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Learn the science behind the headlines—the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential... read more
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“Laws of countries can be changed, but laws of physics are pretty much set”
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“The real danger in shouting that the sky is falling is that it might not fall right away and people will lose interest”
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power is the rate at which energy is used. Power can be measured in terms of calories per hour or joules5 per second. TNT has less energy than gasoline, but it delivers what little it has with such speed that it can shatter rock. Gasoline has more energy than TNT, but TNT can deliver more power than gasoline can.
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for the same energy, coal in the United States is 20 times cheaper than gasoline.
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Overhead sunlight delivers to the ground approximately 100 watts per square foot 1 kilowatt per square yard (or square meter) 1 horsepower per square yard (or square meter) 1 gigawatt per square kilometer 3 gigawatts per square mile
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A dirty bomb is not really a weapon of mass destruction, but it is potentially a weapon of mass disruption.
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28% is used for transportation (gasoline and jet fuel). 40% is used to generate electric power. 20% is used for direct heating (natural gas, coal). 32% is used by industry.
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29% from imported oil 11% from domestic oil 24% from coal 19% from natural gas (methane) 8% from nuclear 8% from others (solar, hydro, wind, biomass, geothermal)
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“There is a gigawatt in a square kilometer of sunlight, and that’s about the same as a nuclear power plant.”
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For the same weight, gasoline delivers approximately 2 times the energy of coal 2 times the energy of methanol (wood alcohol) 1.5 times the energy of ethanol (drinking alcohol) 1.1 times the energy of butanol (a likely future biofuel)
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The children of victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed no significant increase in birth defects, according to a 2006 National Academy of Sciences report.
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The following fuels do beat gasoline in energy per pound: Natural gas is 1.3 times better Hydrogen gas or liquid is 2.6 times better Uranium or plutonium fission is 2 million times better Hydrogen fusion is 6 million times better Antimatter is 2 billion times better
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- United States
- Russia
- China Syndrome
- Hiroshima
- India
- Alaska
- Yucca Mountain
- North Korea
- Kyoto
- Nagasaki
- New York City
- Earth
- Soviet Union
- California
- Iraq
- Manhattan Project
- Iran
- Europe
- Antarctica
- Afghanistan
- Denver
- Moon
- Brazil
- H2o
- Germany
- France
- Israel
- Mexico
- Canada
- Pakistan
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- IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: The IPCC is a unique partnership between the scientific community and the world’s governments. Itsgoal is to provide policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive information on key aspects of climatechange, including the physical science basis, impacts of and vulnerability to climate change in humanand natural systems, options for adapting to the climate changes that cannot be avoided, and optionsfor mitigation to avoid climate change.
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What do you think the next terrorist attack will be?
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- Dewey: 530
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