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...hydrogen production would likely cause an energy price shock that would seriously dampen the economy. But the present American system of electricity production is archaic. While 10 percent comes from renewable resources—mostly hydroelectric—and 20 percent is nuclear, 70 percent is from burning fossil fuels...
...depends less on where it operates than how. The more capital intensive a business is, the more its executives need to know how the future is likely to take shape. Energy companies, which have to make multibillion-dollar infrastructure investments before they can draw a penny's worth of fossil fuel out of the ground, have set the standard for security and political intelligence overseas. High-tech firms, which need to determine where their competitors are headed before beginning costly research and development, have led the way in what is known as competitive intelligence...
Lyons is an architect's textbook, where the oldest Roman theater in France (circa 1st century B.C.) is only a fossil's throw from a vast urban-renewal project that will include a science museum by Austrian architects Coop Himmelblau - a dissonantly angular 21st century "crystal cloud" intended to "float" 12 m above the ground...
Wells pointed to what he saw as the fallacies of Darwinian evolution. Wells said he accepted some of the basic tenets of evolution—that a fossil record exists and one can observe changes within species...
Palumbi—who followed Wells’ speech—agreed with Wells’ observation that fossil history goes back billions of years. Palumbi offered two explanations. The first was that “the complicated came from the simple”—natural selection. The second was the empirically disproved notion of spontaneous generation...