INTRODUCTION ...a safe, environmentally sound, and an economically viable energy pathway that will sustain human progress into the distant future... Can this "energy pathway", as called for in the Brandtland Commission in 1987 (Mitchell, 1996: 149), be fulfilled by the current energy situation? ...

Emissions from the tailpipe of the car in front of you, smoke dispersing from a smokestack and forming a black haze around the horizon, or the strange black tint in the water left over from an oil spill years ago. These are all types of pollution and are all caused by one common entity: fossil f...

Sources of Energy Have you ever thought about how we get the energy to run the things we take for granite every single day. There are many sources of energy that that are used for transportation, heat, light, and the manufacturing of goods of all kinds. The development of scie...

Global Warming Human kind has entered a brand new relationship with the earth. The constant and increasing pressures we are exerting threaten our planets ability to sustain life itself. Change-in the way we think , and in the way we live-is need...

The Manhattan Project did more than allow the United States to knock Japan out of World War II: it allowed the United States to lead the way into the Nuclear Age. The United States needed a way to end the war quickly without losing many of its own lives, so the president ordered scientists...