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Spend a few days prowling the packed exhibition floor of Abu Dhabi's World Future Energy Summit, and you might forget that the global economy is suffering through an existential crisis that has overshadowed just about everything else - including climate change. Booths showing off the technology of Chinese solar companies and German wind businesses buzz with visitors. Conference panels on biofuels or green design are half-empty, but that's only because attendees are busier cutting deals...
...reality, the global economic downturn has hardly left the nascent alternative energy sector untouched. Developers here say that financing for new wind farms and solar plants remains all but frozen, halting tentative plans in the U.S. and Europe to expand clean power. The WilderHill New Energy Index - a fund that tracks the stock performance of selected clean tech companies - is down more than 60% since its peak in November of 2007, slammed by the double blow of the loss of venture capital and the reduced urgency for energy alternatives as the price of oil has tumbled. Clean tech startups have...
...criteria for a planet? In our exhibits, we abandoned the word planet as a useful word completely. We don't organize by planet status. We organize by what objects look like compared to what other objects look like. So we look at the family photo of the solar system, and in it, you have the sun, which obviously is its own thing. Then you have the terrestrials - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, all small, all rocky, all dense. Then you have the asteroid belt - craggy chunks of rock and metal - orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Tens of thousands of them...
...memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. But in science, memorization is not the ticket to understanding, and so, given that fact, why not teach it in a way that fosters insight into the form and structure of the solar system? (See pictures of animals in space...
...America? How does one even do that? I've thought about that. I'll tell you what it is. My first-ever interview for national television was in 1995 for NBC Nightly News. And I was interviewed about the discovery of the first planet outside of our own solar system. So, they came to the planetarium. I'm an easy date for them because I'm just up the street. I give them my best professorial reply. I talk about the Doppler shift and the measurement and the spectra, and I say, There's not really a wobble - which...