2004 Politics Technology 
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
This arrangement was negotiated 25 years ago and is part of a decades-old program of cooperation on nuclear technology, which includes agreements not to use this assistance for military purposes. These agreements often involve the transfer of reactor technology, supply of nuclear fuel, and training of specialists to operate the reactors.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it? It’s not clear whether such late-breaking support will be enough.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 4, 2024
Standing in the voting booth, I asked myself how it was possible that someone like me, who has devoted my career to studying political science and elections and who does research ahead of time, was encountering such difficulties just trying to cast my vote? Several judicial races hadn’t been listed on the online sample ballot.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 14, 2022
Instead it begins with this: A brief on how adept engineering for dams and aqueducts, government subsidy, technological development for pumps and water recycling, surpassing marketing, and an advantageous assemblage of natural resources – sun, warmth, blue sky, and open spaces – produced one of the greatest desert civilizations in human history. .
Physics World
MAY 5, 2021
So asks Will Smith’s Detective Del Spooner of the artificial being Sonny, in a memorable scene from the 2004 film I, Robot. The book’s scope is primarily political, rather than technical. Students of technology and of ethics will find it particularly valuable. “Can a robot write a symphony? 2021 MIT Press $40hb 232pp.
Environmental Progress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The package does nothing to invest in proven and inexpensive clean energy technologies, nor is it a comprehensive economic strategy for the state. The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Meanwhile, these giveaways are a polluter’s dream come true.
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