May 28, 2024 Halfway Between Kyoto and 2050
Halfway Between Kyoto and 2050: Zero Carbon Is a Highly Unlikely Outcome is published by the Fraser Institute. PDF My first paper addressing global climate chan...
Halfway Between Kyoto and 2050: Zero Carbon Is a Highly Unlikely Outcome is published by the Fraser Institute. PDF My first paper addressing global climate chan...
Sometimes my readers send me photos of my books displayed in bookstores in London, Tokyo, New York or Prague, and I take these sightings as expected signs of gl...
During its 100th year the World Energy Conference held in Rotterdam awarded me The Energy Systems Luminary Award “for significant thought leadership in recognit...
The latest translations of my books include Grand Transitions in Hungarian; How the World Really Works in Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese and Russian; Invention a...
There is one writer whose books I’ve reviewed on Gates Notes more than anyone else: Vaclav Smil. I’ve read all of his 44 books, which cover everything from the ...
By the end of 2023 my books have been translated into 35 languages. Here are some of the latest additions. How the World Really Works has been published in Chin...
John Wiley published Materials and Dematerialization. The book considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals...
Posted on June 15, 2023 2023 by Vaclav Smil In early 2023 Liam Shaw, a computational biologist in the Department of Biology at Oxford Univer...
Posted on May 30, 2023 by Vaclav Smil Growth has been published in Finnish, Italian and Japanese (in two volumes) and Numbers Don’t Lie came...
Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions – from bodies to paintings and the so-cal...