Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bell
"Richard Smalley, a Rice University professor who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996, is calling on the United States to mount a multibillion-dollar campaign to fund research into alternative energy or else face the consequences.
"'It may be a greater challenge for us than the Cold War ... to make it possible for 10 billion people to live the lifestyle you are used to in a way that doesn't cause unacceptable impacts on the environment,' he told an audience of scientists at the International Electron Devices Meeting taking place in San Francisco this week. 'There is no escaping the problem. The consequences will be terrorism, pestilence, famine.' "
Source: CNET News.com via GhostChild
"Richard Smalley, a Rice University professor who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996, is calling on the United States to mount a multibillion-dollar campaign to fund research into alternative energy or else face the consequences.
"'It may be a greater challenge for us than the Cold War ... to make it possible for 10 billion people to live the lifestyle you are used to in a way that doesn't cause unacceptable impacts on the environment,' he told an audience of scientists at the International Electron Devices Meeting taking place in San Francisco this week. 'There is no escaping the problem. The consequences will be terrorism, pestilence, famine.' "
Source: CNET News.com via GhostChild
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