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Daniel Lyons’s letter of July 15 responds to Pat Hynes’s column of July 8 advocating ending the use of all fossil fuels, by quoting a report by Vaclav Smil describing the enormous technical ...
There is perhaps no scholar more qualified to dissect the world's energy systems on a macro scale – from food and agriculture to electricity and fuel – than Vaclav Smil. The 81-year-old Distinguished ...
At the turn of the century, Vaclav Smil wrote Feeding the World. He now returns to the subject with the similarly titled How to Feed the World. In the 24 years that separate the two, Smil wrote 28 ...
How to Feed the World, Vaclav Smil's "big numbers" book about future food supply, fails to address the impact of climate change ...
Vaclav Smil’s guide to the food system, How to Feed the World, has impressive data and range, but it suffers from a dearth of firm ideas ...
Environment Energy expert Vaclav Smil on how to feed the world without trashing it The systems we use to produce food have many problems, from horrifying waste to their dependence on fossil fuels.
In 1959, British novelist and physical chemist C.P. Snow gave a now-famous lecture called “The Two Cultures.” Snow argued that there was a growing disconnect between the culture of the sci ...
“I find we are living in a world that is absolutely fact-free.” A provocative sentence that Vaclav Smil used to open his address to the Calgary energy audience at the Canadian Energy Executive ...
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