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Category Archives: National Academies of Sciences
2008 National Academy of Sciences meeting on America’s Energy Future
Preface. Hundreds of top scientists gathered in 2008 to discuss the future of energy in America at a time when oil prices were reaching record highs. And here we are again with record breaking prices and no reduction of our … Continue reading
Posted in National Academies of Sciences, Oil Shocks
Tagged coal, energy crisis, energy dependence, energy shock, holdren, Moniz, nuclear power, oil
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There are over 300,000 contaminated groundwater sites in the U.S.
Preface. If peak oil did indeed happen in 2018 as the EIA world production data shows, then let’s use the oil we still have, before it is rationed, to clean up the 126,000+ sites that threaten to pollute groundwater for … Continue reading
Posted in Chemicals, Hazardous Waste, National Academies of Sciences, Water Pollution
Tagged chemicals, drinking water, groundwater, pollution
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