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ESA ACT

European Union Think Tanks - 0 views

www.eu.thinktankdirectory.org

EU Research think-tank

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    European Union Think Tanks
Tobias Seidl

Global Futures Studies & Research by the MILLENNIUM PROJECT - 0 views

www.millennium-project.org

LTP futures future studies foresight crowdsourcing

shared by Tobias Seidl on 13 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Tobias Seidl on 13 Jul 09
     
    The Millennium Project is a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgements from its several hundred participants to produce the annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies such as the State of the Future Index, Future Scenarios for Africa, Lessons of History, Environmental Security, Applications of Futures Research to Policy, and a 700+ annotated scenarios bibliography.
  • LeopoldS on 14 Jul 09
     
    very nice page - we should use some of its resources!!
pacome delva

An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...ing-around-geoengineering.html

climate_change geoengineering climato_sceptics

shared by pacome delva on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
  • A number of right-wing think tanks actively denying climate change are also promoting geoengineering, an irony that seems to escape them.
  • Wood believes that climate engineering is inevitable. In a statement that could serve as Earth's epitaph, he declared: "We've engineered every other environment we live in, why not the planet?"
  • It's estimated that if whoever controls the scheme decided to stop, the greenhouse gases that would have built up could cause warming to rebound at a rate 10 to 20 times that of the recent past - a phenomenon referred to, apparently without irony, as the "termination problem".
Nicholas Lan

Betting on Green - 5 views

www.economist.com/18304172

technology economics innovation

shared by Nicholas Lan on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 16 Mar 11
     
    breakthroughs vs. accelerated deployment in climate change mitigation technologies.
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  • LeopoldS on 17 Mar 11
     
    interesting guy indeed ... "Forget today's green technologies like electric cars, wind turbines, solar cells and smart grids, in other words. None meets what Mr Khosla calls the "Chindia price"-the price at which people in China and India will buy them without a subsidy. "Everything's a toy until it reaches that point," he says. I also like this one since its a bit like ACT topic selection: ""I am only interested in technologies that have a 90% chance of failure but, if they do succeed, would change the infrastructure of society in some radical way," he says." should we propose SPS to him ? :-)
  • LeopoldS on 17 Mar 11
     
    one more: ""I never compute returns. If you start forecasting cash flows, you lose innovation, you lose instinct. You average yourself down to mediocrity." "I've had many more failures than successes in my life," admits Mr Khosla. "My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed."
  • Nicholas Lan on 17 Mar 11
     
    indeed. puts me in mind of the often reinvented private ACT idea. actually there's a bunch of interesting looking articles on his website. http://www.khoslaventures.com/khosla/papers.html . No sps in the solar one as far as i can tell :) found this bit intriguing too in that, albeit presumably out of context, it doesn't make sense ""The solution to our energy problems is almost the exact opposite of what Khosla says," declares Joseph Romm, who is the editor of Climate Progress, an influential climate blog, and a senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress Action Fund, a think-tank. "Technology breakthroughs are unlikely to be the answer. Accelerated deployment of existing technologies will get you down the cost curve much more rapidly than a breakthrough."" found this seemingly not very well considered piece (to be fair a blog post) by the guy http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/02/is-anyone-more-incoherent-than-vinod-khosla/ . maybe he's written some more convincing stuff in this vein somewhere.
  • Ma Ru on 25 Apr 11
     
    "Mr Khosla (...) is investing over $1 billion of his clients' money in black swans" Well, with his own money his approach might be a little different :-)
Francesco Biscani

Expert panel urges NASA to revive futuristic think tank - space - 07 August 2009 - New ... - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...dn17568

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  • NASA should revive its Institute for Advanced Concepts, a blue-skies idea mill that closed in 2007, says an expert panel – but it says the new incarnation should have its feet a little closer to the ground.
  • Francesco Biscani on 09 Aug 09
     
    NASA should revive its own ACT, expert panel says.
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