Word: fossilizing
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With huge doors covered with giant insect sculptures, the Museum of Comparative Zoology features fossil invertebrates, whale skeletons, the largest turtle shell ever found, and extinct birds. It, too, is housed in the Peabody Building. The natural history museums are open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday...
...Think of the water in this glass as the fossil fuel in the world," he says. "We drink deeply of this supply," he adds, taking another...
Suddenly, he takes a big gulp and guzzles the rest of the water. He turns the glass upside down, and explains how the world is running out of fossil fuels...
...resurrect the American infrastructure, the government might help finance federal, state and local partnerships to build mass transit, opting for light rail more often than underground subway lines. These transit systems would easily pay back their start-up costs through reduced consumption of fossil fuels, diminished pollution and traffic congestion. The construction could be financed, at least in part, by new taxes on parking and gasoline. Similarly, high-speed railcars could be a new, more efficient means of transportation and could be paid for by imposing new taxes on diesel and jet fuel. Those levies would not be popular...
...growing public concern over pollution from burning fossil fuels will increase the pressure for renewable energy. Several states are starting to require utilities to factor the cost of environmental damage into the cost of power production. In California, where the process of calculating environmental cost is just beginning, wind power may be assigned a price 15% lower than that for energy from traditional sources...