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Energy at the crossroads

Posted on August 25, 2008

By Guest author The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- Vaclav Smil is a historian of technical advances -- particularly in the field of energy -- and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada. Over the years, Smil has written more than 25 books and many dozens of articles. In recent years he has been examining human uses of energy over past millennia. As Smil says [PDF], My firm belief is that looking far ahead is done most profitably by looking far back. His first conclusion [PD...

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