Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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The World Community Grid sets its sights — and processing power — on clean energy
IBM’s World Community Grid is a global network of computers linked up to become a single super-computer. The processing power of idling computers is put to use number crunching solutions to AIDS, Dengue Fever, um, Human Proteome Folding, and, now, clean energy: The mission of the Clean Energy Project is to find new materials for […]
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BREAKING!
Al Gore still not running for president ready to accept a job in a presidential administration. We’ll keep you updated on new developments in Gore’s unwavering, years-long refusal to get back in government as they unfold!
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Biochar
Biofuels Digest rounds up the evidence of increasing interest in biochar — a potentially carbon-negative source of power.
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NYT columnist makes a late bid for dumbest paragraph of the year
It’s widely agreed that Bill Kristol’s tenure as a New York Times op-ed columnist has been a fiasco — not for Kristol, whose flat-footed, me-too hackery is old news, but for the Gray Lady, who showed the extraordinary bad judgment to pick him. Most of Kristol’s stuff is instantly forgettable, but yesterday brought what I […]
