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One of the basic rules in the demand/supply concept is that when something becomes scarce, unless the demand declines with it, it’s value increases. There are a couple of goods that get rarer everyday along with the growth of humanity: land, commodities, biodiversity, etc But although you cannot do much about the lithium resources getting [...]
January 20th, 2010 by JoanI really believe that risk management, on the form of quantitative risk analysis will be more and more needed. I know that in the wind energy industry, the need for quantitative risk analysis is necessary when it comes to buidling up an offshore windfarm. The proportion of these farms amounts 3 to 4 % of [...]
November 18th, 2009 by HenryBy definition, oil is a limited commodity. This is the reason why people start working on electric cars for example, which are presented as being the ultimate solution to our problem. But didn’t they do to science class? We cannot store electricity. We barely know how to get it back from a chemical reaction made [...]
November 17th, 2009 by JoanOk, I know this is kind of weird, but it is an idea anyway. I’ve bought several magazines to read on the beach this summer, and a new trend everyone starts speaking about is the recycling of human crap for agriculture. From scientific american to wired, smart people preach this idea. Finally, why not? We [...]
July 1st, 2009 by JoanThere are so many places where fresh water is an issue. And in most of them, sun is not. Since those places often have access to the sea too, water desalinization could change everything. Imagine what would australia or israel be if they could produce as much fresh water as they like just with the energy of the [...]
May 24th, 2009 by Joan