A Global “Manhattan Project” for the Energy Crisis

A “Manhattan Project” for climate change?

Climate change is a chronic yet unprecedented threat to civilization. Large scale abatement of greenhouse-gas emissions would require not only replacing carbon-intensive fuels (like coal and oil) with low-emission or carbon-free energy alternatives, but also replacing much of the infrastructure that uses primary and secondary energy. As a political issue, the scale of the problem makes carbon m...

EHPnet: The Manhattan Project Cleanup

The Virome Project, a “manhattan Project’ for Bioterrorism. Ii. Techniques for Physical Virus Detection Using

An essential first step in planning and organizing the Manhattan Project was an inventory of the technologies that might logically be required, followed by selection of those most promising, and then by intensive research and development to reduce them to practice with concurrent scale up as required. Under intense time pressures, many logically sequential projects were carried out in parallel....

The Energy Crisis, the Role of Renewable and Global Warming

Globally buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of the total world annual energy consumption. Most of this energy is for the provision of lighting, heating, cooling and air conditioning. An increase in awareness of the environmental impact of CO2, NOx and CFCs emissions triggered a renewed interest in environmentally friendly cooling and heating technologies. Under the 1997 Montreal Pr...

A global conversation about energy from biomass: the continental conventions of the global sustainable bioenergy project

The global sustainable bioenergy (GSB) project was formed in 2009 with the goal of providing guidance with respect to the feasibility and desirability of sustainable, bioenergy-intensive futures. Stage 1 of this project held conventions with a largely common format on each of the world's continents, was completed in 2010, and is described in this paper. Attended by over 400 persons, the five co...