Transforming Transportation: The Promise of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles
Steve Marshall lectures at the McNauton Fellows Lecture Series. He discusses the history of electric cars, the current technology, and where we are headed. Read More ›
Bolder Move Needed to Reduce Addiction to Oil — Try PHEVs Now
Contact: Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Steve Marshall The President needs a sequel to his State of the Union address on energy issues. Although he set a goal to reduce the use of gasoline by 20% in ten years, he can do more and do it faster. What is needed is an Executive Order to jumpstart a technology that would dramatically Read More ›
Recharging The Nation’s Energy Policy
Alan Mulally, Ford’s new CEO, helped lead Boeing into a new world of carbon-fiber, fuel-efficient technology with the 787 Dreamliner. In an intensely competitive global marketplace, Boeing is back on top again in sales over Airbus, which is struggling to catch up with Boeing’s fuel-efficient technologies. Mulally now faces a similar global fuel-efficiency race in the even more competitive auto Read More ›
Technology Will End Our Oil Addiction
Original Article There is strong public support for taking immediate action to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Our addiction to oil undermines national security and jeopardizes our economy and the environment. Because our oil payments often wind up in the hands of hostile interests in Middle Eastern countries and Venezuela, experts surmise that we are in effect paying for Read More ›
Collapsing Venezuela
If Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez deliberately intended to sabotage his nation’s economy, he would be hard-pressed to do anything different from what he is now doing to his country. It has been widely reported that Mr. Chavez has been increasingly taking control of the oil, telecommunications and energy sectors, as well as the media. What has not been reported is Read More ›
The Coming Exaflood
Today there is much praise for YouTube, MySpace, blogs and all the other democratic digital technologies that are allowing you and me to transform media and commerce. But these infant Internet applications are at risk, thanks to the regulatory implications of “network neutrality.” Proponents of this concept — including Democratic Reps. John Dingell and John Conyers, and Sen. Daniel Inouye, Read More ›
Money, Not Geopolitics, Drives Russian Energy Policy
Original Article Ever since Russia briefly interrupted natural gas deliveries to Ukraine on New Year’s Day 2006, Moscow has been harshly criticized in the West for allegedly using energy as a tool to blackmail its neighbors. The recent spat between Russia and Belarus over Moscow’s price hike on oil and gas deliveries to Minsk once again prompted charges from Western Read More ›
Advisory Panel Decides In Favor Of Rail-To-Trail Idea
This article, published by The Seattle Times, mentions Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center: Two committee members — Snohomish City Councilman Larry Countryman and Thomas Till, a director of Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center — voted against the trail-only option on the corridor in King County. The rest of the article can be found here.
The Limitations of Liberal Pluralism
I had an opportunity last weekend to take a mental snapshot of the Jewish liberal species at Limmud New York, a learning conference held at the Friar Tuck Convention Center in Catskill, N.Y. Of some 900 people present for the beautifully organized smorgasbord of presentations on religious, political and other topics, I was probably one of about five Republicans. I Read More ›
Intellectual Property and Patent Power: Protecting the knowledge that defines the Telecosm
John Thorne discusses the history of patents in America. He notes their development, the exponential growth and added complexity that he suggests will end up in a patent crisis. Listen to his solutions to the potential problems.
Telecosm 2007 Read More ›