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 ...

Between 1997 and 2024, Canada's use of fossil fuels as a primary energy source grew by 17 per cent despite a commitment to ...

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 ...

Object Details author Smil, Vaclav Notes Elecresource Contents 1. Invention and innovation : a long history and modern infatuation -- 2. Inventions that turned from welcome to undesirable. Leaded ...

Connor Brown, editorial director at Viking, is set to join Andrew Nurnberg Associates (ANA) as a literary agent from 1st ...

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which "personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone" forms "the beginning of a new era for ...

The luxurious bulletproof limo was 22 feet long, weighed four tons, had soft, green leather upholstery and interior fittings of silver and ivory. Sounds like “The Beast” used to transport ...

No one paid much attention when an obscure biology journal published an article in 2017 about ‘the evolutionary processes which led to a crab-like habitus’. In this review of crustacean taxonomy, ...

Blackhawks prospect Vaclav Nestrasil's development 'took off' once he embraced power-forward identity Nestrasil, a 6-5 Czech forward whom the Hawks drafted No. 25 overall last week, has come a ...

Vaclav Cerny Vaclav Cerny makes transfer intentions clear as Rangers stars told the truth by Russell Martin over ins and outs The Czech Republic wide-man was a big hit during his Ibrox loan spell ...