Harvard University distinguished service professor Joseph Nye, author of The Future of Power (forthcoming), has a detailed analysis of the challenges America faces internally and externally.
Governments across the world have reviewed the future of nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster, with Germany already announcing a withdrawal from nuclear energy.
On a webinar last week someone asked me how I thought the Japanese tsunami would affect the future of nuclear power around the world, and in the U.S. in particular.
In all the fighting in Washington over renewable fuels, carbon emissions and the future of nuclear power, the one thing energy experts agree on is that the nation's power grid is in desperate need of a makeover.
It was leading the rest of the world into the future with the demonstrative power of democracy and free markets, new technological breakthroughs in automation, computers, communications, energy, medicine, space travel, to name a few.
The Swiss phase out raises more doubts about the future of the nuclear power industry.
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But EDF was abandoned at the altar on August 1st, after two big British Energy shareholders decided that, in light of the likely future price of power, its offer was too low.
Almost a year ago, I was a guest on a Webinar about the future of solar power.
Here in the U.S., the future of nuclear power is less certain.
As the world follows the ongoing crisis in Japan and new technological developments in renewable energy, the future of nuclear power is unclear.
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When pitching its new line of chips to investors earlier this year, Intel even went so far as to slap an image of the iPhone onto a slide as an example of the sorts of devices future versions of Atom will power.
The composite rate can never go below 0%, so even if we experience a prolonged period of severe de flation, the I Bonds will still help protect the future spending power of your investment.
As a fast growing business in the technology industry, we represent the industry and type of company that will power the future job creation engine of the United States.
Even stock prices--which are supposed to reflect the future earning power of the companies they track--don't do a consistently good job of calling a crash or a recovery.
Although he shows enthusiasm for the battery project, Gambarota, who now spends much of his time developing micro wind turbines, is sceptical about the future of human-power on a mass-scale.
Supporters believed it would safeguard the economic future of the area after Dungeness Nuclear Power Station closes.
During his time at Unicom predecessor Commonwealth Edison, Rowe changed the course of the company's future to focus on nuclear power instead of dirtier coal and oil-fired plants. (See "Exelon's Carbon Advantage").
The computer of the future, one that sips power, boots up instantly and ably handles the most complex speech and image recognition, is under construction in a handful of laboratories.
More than a habit of mind, this optimism sprang from deep confidence in the power and future of American ideals.
I, on the other hand, take the stance that some future scenario of power outages, collapse of infrastructure, and demise of the Internet is not required to incite action.
The global future of nuclear as a power source was also called into question after the disaster which occurred in March 2011 when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
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As Ian Ayres (my colleague in forbes columny) writes in his insightful and delightful Super Crunchers (Bantam 2007), the technologies for assembling and mining huge data sets have converged over the last couple of decades, and they give us remarkable new power to pluck the future out of the past.
"If the past celebrated lust and greed and love of power, the future will celebrate continence and humility and altruism, " Hamlin Garland said.
The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question after the Fukushima disaster in March, when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami damaged the nuclear reactors, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
As for Bankston, he was happy to see Digg's users rebel last week in what he calls "a great flowering of civil disobedience, " and he says it should serve as a warning to future censors about the power of the Streisand effect.
Instead, the shooter anticipates the kind of graphics-power future PCs will unlock, giving the game a longer shelf-life than it could have otherwise had.
Although the 2012 OVDI penalty regime may seem overly harsh for many, the decision to participate should include an economic analysis of the taxpayers projected future earning power that could be generated from the funds held offshore.
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Although the 2011 OVDI penalty regime may be overly harsh for many participants, the decision to participate should include an economic analysis of the taxpayers projected future earning power that could be generated from the funds held offshore.
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Indeed, an interesting question now after all the focus on Facebook, is what current private companies will power the future top of the Midas List.
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