Wild Profits
The Arctic refuge may soon be in the hands of Big Oil. Will it drill clean?
Energy
Gas-Guzzling Hybrids
Big engines get a green sheen.
TransÉnergie: Playing Two Power Games
Laying a new transmission line under Long Island Sound was easy. Navigating the political waters wasn't.
Ocean Power Fights Current Thinking
Corporations are readying the launch pf commercial ventures to generate power using ocean waves. Now, they hope the federal government will also get involved.
Ending the Grid Lock
Grid computing has long found a following in academia, the financial industry and pharmaceutical enterprises, but other industries have been slow to follow. Until now.
Engineering Climate
How technology can help the planet.
The Protein Grid
Cracking the human genome was just the beginning. Using two major community computing grids, researchers are taking a distributed approach to mapping the structure of human proteins.
The End of Oil?
There are good signs that worldwide oil production is declining. Best hold on tight.
Letters
We received an energetic response to our December story on nuclear waste.
And More...
Short items of interest.
