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David Talbot
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I’m MIT Technology Review's chief correspondent, keeping an eye most often on the world of information and communication technologies—and asking my kids when I don’t understand what’s going on. Recent projects have taken me to Kenya to write about mobile-phone-based health initiatives, and Germany to explore how they’ll ramp up renewable power while closing down nuclear plants. My 2008 feature on the Obama campaign’s social-networking operation was selected for The Best Technology Writing 2009.
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Needed: An "Apollo Program" for Energy
The world's critical energy problems require solutions beyond those that policymakers are exploring now.
Solar Flier
Its aim: around the world on zero gallons
Nuclear Powers Up
Entergy Nuclear treads carefully in proposing a new nuclear power plant.
Wind Power Upgrade
Turbine technology looms large.
Gas-Guzzling Hybrids
Big engines get a green sheen.
Alternative to Incineration
Hot plasmas could dispose of toxic waste and produce hydrogen, without the harmful byproducts of combustion.
Flying the Efficient Skies
Fuel cells could cut jets' energy consumption, emissions.
LEDs vs. the Lightbulb
With their longer lifetimes and higher efficiencies, light-emitting diodes will transform the illumination industry-and save billions in energy costs.
R&D 2002: Electricity-Producing Vehicles
General Motors' Hydronomy program breaks the mold with research to link fuel cell cars to the electric grid by 2010.
