世界地球日引出能源未來的問題

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是的,今天是全球第43個世界地球日。許多線上和線下活動正在進行;請看下面列表中的一些特別專案。但在2013年,對我來說,這一天提出了一個核心問題,即如何在為人類提供動力的同時,又不在此過程中毀滅地球。

《大眾科學》近期發表的兩篇文章正面探討了這個問題。首先是一本新的電子書,名為《地球、風和火:能源的未來》。它以引人入勝且務實的視角,審視了各種可再生能源選擇的潛力和問題,從熟悉的太陽能和風能,到一些激進的研究專案,其中包括將陽光轉化為汽油的機器,以及將汽車發動機內部廢熱轉化為電能的形狀記憶合金。關於我們所有電子書的資訊都在同一網站上,包括關於氣候變化和水資源管理的版本。

其次是對斯坦福大學研究員馬克·雅各布森的採訪,他制定了極其詳細的計劃,說明世界如何才能完全依靠風能、水能和太陽能獲得所有能源。他還將該方案縮小到紐約州,作為如何實施此類計劃的第一個真實案例。


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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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