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...This trend troubles Jasper Inventor, a climate and energy campaigner for the environmental group Greenpeace. Coal-burning plants generate 36% of the emissions blamed for global warming - far more than those produced by road traffic, which account for 17% of the world's CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Inventor worries that by committing to coal, countries such as Vietnam are making a mistake that will be difficult, if not impossible, to undo. "In the longer term, we believe this will be a losing proposition for Vietnam," Inventor says...
...smoke. But even the most advanced technologies can't cut CO2 emissions by much. Carbon sequestration - a proposed method of fighting global warming that siphons off carbon dioxide emissions and pumps them underground - is at least a decade away from large-scale use. "Clean coal is a myth," says Inventor...
...allergies? if so, you know the relief of Benadryl, since 1946 the cure for everything from rashes to runny noses. Its inventor, George Rieveschl, became a chemical engineer after failing to get a job as a commercial artist. In the 1940s, while researching muscle relaxants, he found that his two-part compound blocked itch-causing histamines. Unlike predecessors, Benadryl did not cause severe drowsiness. It made him millions. "It seemed like bad luck at the time," he said of the nosedive he took as an artist, "but it ended up working out pretty well...
When critics asked why he bothered to invent an impractical human-powered flight machine, the keenly intellectual aeronautics engineer Paul MacCready, above, insisted that inventing anything--even if impractical--spawned something critically important: a new way of thinking about the world. In August 1977 the curious, free-spirited inventor unveiled his Gossamer Condor, a winged, 70-lb. (about 30 kg) contraption made of piano wire, aluminum tubing and Mylar, which completed the first sustained human-powered flight. "Your parents will be wrong. Your schools will be wrong," he told a group of schoolchildren in 1998. "If you look...
...insurance, so why shouldn't she be fully compensated? She expressed little sympathy for webcasters and their plight. "There's all this talk that not all Internet radio companies are going to survive, but that's true with all businesses," Fink said. "Not every bicycle company survives. Not every inventor comes up with something that survives the marketplace...