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Tag: Michio Kaku
The History of Solar Energy
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make this lecture on a local professor’s new book: Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy. But I feel like I learned a lot just reading the abstract, e.g., the work the …
Michio Kaku Offers Keen Insight Into Our Civilization's Status in the Cosmos
American theoretical physicist Michio Kaku offers both an ebullient and charming personality, as well as a penetrating insight into the situation in which humankind finds itself here on 21st Century Earth. In this short interview, he explains that our civilization …
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Michio Kaku on Global Climate Change
Here’s a video in which Michio Kaku, physics professor at City College of New York, talks on global climate change. I’ve read a couple of his books, and I have to say that he has a wonderfully accessible writing style, …
Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy: Moving Beyond Hydrocarbon Fuels
In response to my piece on the electric vehicle adoption curve, in which I suggested that EVs represented more than a “niche” market, frequent commenter and senior physicist Glenn Doty wrote: Most of those multi-car households have one SUV or …
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End Of Nuclear Power in Sight?
It’s good to see the world of nuclear power showing concern about seismic activity that may endanger their reactors – especially in California, where we’ve been known to have a temblor or two. Elsewhere in the news, Japan is shutting …
Does Zero Point Energy Offer a Practical Value?
A reader asks: Hi, I did a quick search on your website for zero point energy and didn’t find anything. I’ve been hearing some seemingly unrealistic claims. Have you had any exposure to this technology / pseudo-technology? …. to which …
Michio Kaku’s “Physics of the Impossible” and Its Implications to the Clean Energy Field
I just finished Michio Kaku’s 2008 book Physics of the Impossible, which left me with a renewed admiration and respect for this great mind and true master-communicator of popular science. So warm and inviting is the language and its presentation that …
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