I couldn’t resist attending this talk. It wasn’t especially well-attended, and I think the audience that appeared was not entirely receptive. I enjoyed it though. Corey KingPresident, Energetics Research and Engineering Design Synthesis of Multistable Equilibrium Systems and the World Development/Energy Path Design synthesis can be thought of as picking a desired outcome and then…
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May 9, 2007 by
Michael Tobis in
climate,
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descriptive,
economics,
engineering,
networking,
prescriptive,
sustainability,
telephony,
Van Jacobson
For those wandering in here without context, I am advocating a rethinking of economics in the light of sustainability issues in general and climate change in particular. Consider minutes 4 through 7 of this video of a Google Tech Talk by Van Jacobson. “It’s not that the solution we have is a bad one, it’s…
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