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Energy Surprises for the 21st Century
This article provides an overview of some of the issues and innovations that are likely to alter the global energy sector in the early 21st…

Exchanges between Mark Mills and Amory Lovins about the electricity used by the Internet
In 1999, Peter Huber and Mark Mills prepared for the Greening Earth Society (funded by the coal-centric Western Fuels Association) and summarized in aForbes article,…

Advanced Composites: The Car is at the Crossroads
This paper about advanced composite technology in automobiles was presented at the International Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Symposium and Exhibition…

Is Oil Running Out?
This letter published in Science magazine in 1998, argues that if energy end-use efficiency measures are undertaken, oil will become an uncompetitive energy resource. The…

Hypercars: A Market-Oriented Approach to Meeting Life Cycle Environmental Goals
This paper from 1997 discusses the growing social and regulatory pressures that are compelling automakers to make cars with higher quality and lower life cycle…