世界地球日引出能源未来的问题

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是的,今天是全球第43个世界地球日。许多线上和线下活动正在进行;请看下面列表中的一些特别项目。但在2013年,对我来说,这一天提出了一个核心问题,即如何在为人类提供动力的同时,又不在此过程中毁灭地球。

《大众科学》近期发表的两篇文章正面探讨了这个问题。首先是一本新的电子书,名为《地球、风和火:能源的未来》。它以引人入胜且务实的视角,审视了各种可再生能源选择的潜力和问题,从熟悉的太阳能和风能,到一些激进的研究项目,其中包括将阳光转化为汽油的机器,以及将汽车发动机内部废热转化为电能的形状记忆合金。关于我们所有电子书的信息都在同一网站上,包括关于气候变化和水资源管理的版本。

其次是对斯坦福大学研究员马克·雅各布森的采访,他制定了极其详细的计划,说明世界如何才能完全依靠风能、水能和太阳能获得所有能源。他还将该方案缩小到纽约州,作为如何实施此类计划的第一个真实案例。


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为了获得更多世界地球日的乐趣,您可以将您的面孔添加到由地球日网络运营的精彩互动在线照片马赛克中,该马赛克每小时都在增长。《纽约时报》发布了一个精美的幻灯片,展示了未受人类触及的自然之美的令人惊叹的黑白图像。如果您更喜欢电影或音乐,请观看由演员小埃德·贝格利和歌手杰森·玛耶兹共同制作的关于清洁能源的音乐视频。如果建筑是您的爱好,您可以参观被称为世界上最绿色办公楼的布利特中心,它在西雅图开业……当然,就是今天。

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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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