Articles by John McGrath
John McGrath is an intinerant student and sometimes reporter currently living in Toronto, Canada. He mainly writes about Canadian and International Politics from an energy and climate perspective
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The authors of Limits to Growth were right, 30 years ago and today
Write about peak oil, environmentalism, or any kind of resource constraints to enough people, and you'll eventually meet someone who stopped reading books after 1973. That is, this person -- male or female -- will remember one thing, and one thing only: The Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth in 1973, and the results were mocked, dismissed, and eventually disproved by the glut and economic expansion of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Eating our vegetables
Apropos of David's random thought, Jeffrey Sachs has an article in this month's Scientific American in which he proposes four ways to reduce human population growth, and therefore reduce the burden on the Earth.
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My love affair with Bucky Fuller
A few days back, David posted a link about the Dymaxion Car, Bucky Fuller's ill-fated attempt to inject sanity in to Detroit. In 1933. Maybe I'm just being me, but I think David was trying to taunt me in to posting. I did, after all, pick a related title for my blog.
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Fuel cells take a blow
Via Engineer-Poet, the European Fuel Cell Forum -- who you'd expect to be pro-fuel cell -- has dealt a major blow to the idea of fuel cell cars powered by hydrogen. Noting that hydrogen will, under any reasonable assumption, continue to be less efficient and more costly than electricity, the EFCF has decided to abandon the most prominent form of automotive fuel cell, the proton exchange membrane. They have not, however, abandoned fuel cells altogether:
