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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One more communique dribbles in from the gamma quadrant
You don’t see super-wingnutty stuff like this very often in the mainstream media any more. This was my favorite bit: But didn’t the Nobel Peace Prize go last year to Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for their eco-warnings? Yes. And the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of […]
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Small change
“It’s not insignificant, but it’s the cost of a paint shop in an auto factory.” — David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan, on John McCain’s $300 million prize for a new electric car battery
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The word of Lahde
The internets have been having lots of fun with a farewell letter sent by Andrew Lahde, who ran the hedge fund Lahde Capital Management. That fund was up 870 percent last year, so Lahde decided, screw it, he’s rich enough and he’s quitting. And going out with quite a bang too. The entire letter is […]
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Gratitude for quirky wind entrepreneurs
This story about a quirky entrepreneur pursuing the first large-scale, floating-turbine, offshore wind project on the Oregon coast reminded me of this story of a quirky entrepreneur pursuing a massive offshore wind project on the Delaware coast. Both faced stiff resistance — the latter eventually overcame it, the former, not yet. Let us pause and […]
