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 CEO of Ford Motor Co. …
.. wants a roughly $6-per-gallon tax on gas. That’s the only way, he says, Americans will stop "demanding" gas-guzzling cars. No comment.
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The Inferior Department
I’ll admit I don’t know as much about the Interior Department as I should. In my experience, however, it is the nation’s No. 1 source of environmental humor. First, it’s run by a guy named Dirk Kempthorne. Dirk! That pleased our headline writers to no end, though not as much as Johnson getting EPA. Then […]
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Not any more
Nope. This is actually pretty nifty, if you’re a solar geek. This company, G24i, has been working for a long while to come up with solar cells covered in a dye that, when struck by light, discharges an electron, which is immediately captured by a neighboring crystal of titanium oxide. It’s unlikely it will scale […]
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They’re not going to save us
Oh well, it was a nice thought: A decade-long experiment led by Duke University scientists indicates that trees provide little help in offsetting increased levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Note to the hordes of indignant commenters lunging for the CAPS LOCK key: this does not mean trees are worthless. Trees do many wonderful […]
