Are energy metals hedges or safe havens for clean energy stock returns?

Clean and Dirty: Playing with Boundaries of Consumer’s Safe Havens

The marketplace, with its continuously increasing symbolic nature and infinitely many alternative consumption choices, poses a disorderly and threatening environment for consumers. This conceptual paper discusses the ways in which consumers magically create, eliminate, or shift many boundaries surrounding them through rituals and practices related with cleanliness in order to construct a safe ‘...

Energy for Future Centuries– Will Fusion be an Inexhaustible, Safe and Clean Energy Source?

The current power consumption in different parts of the world and an estimate of the future energy needs of the world are given. The present energy supplies and prospects, the possible consequences of a continued massive fossil fuel consumption, and the potential of non-fossil candidates for long-term energy production are outlined. An introduction to possible fusion processes in future fusion ...

Materials for Clean Energy Conversion

Energy storage deployment and innovation for the clean energy transition

The clean energy transition requires a co-evolution of innovation, investment, and deployment strategies for emerging energy storage technologies. A deeply decarbonized energy system research platform needs materials science advances in battery technology to overcome the intermittency challenges of wind and solar electricity. Simultaneously, policies designed to build market growth and innovati...

Dorms split over 'safe havens' for homosexuals

The victim was attacked at approximately 8:15 p.m. on the walkway between McCandless Hall and the Cushwa-Leighton Library, an area Chlebek described as "well-traveled and adequately lit." Tho victim alleged that she was thrown to the ground by a college-age man carrying a razor blade. Although her skirt was slashed, she was able to flee with only superficial Injuries to her legs, according to t...