A flawed but nonetheless impressive and detailed report just out from a substantial if techie news outlet prompts the thought: what is it about chemistry that turns off so many reporters? Why don't science journalists more often take chemistry and chemical engineering stories to a deep enough level to...
Category: carbon sequestration
A flawed but nonetheless impressive and detailed report just out from a substantial if techie news outlet prompts the thought: what is it about chemistry that turns off so many reporters? Why don't science journalists more often take chemistry and chemical engineering stories to a deep enough level to give readers a sense of what the atoms and molecules in today's incredible industrial complex are doing with one another? Here's the yarn:
- Ars Technica - Melissae Fellet: The promises and pitfalls of carbon capture / Although a few projects are going forward, the tech remains stuck in neutral ;
The topic has gotten sporadic interest over the last decade or two from large, general-interest dailies and other news agencies. It is the idea that if only we could stuff CO2 back deep in the ground whence its...
I'm a big fan of Jim Fallows, and not just...
I'm a big fan of Jim Fallows, and not just because he once hired me, at USNews & World Report in late 1997, the last hiring he got past publisher Mort Zuckerman before the latter canned him for ostensibly not having a savvy enough sense of news (and that's a laugh). Also, not because he wrote one of the great take-downs of Beltway journalism, his "Breaking the News" book that got him hired at USNews as its editor in the first place. It's because he sees big issues with a calm, far-sighted brio.
Among his specialties is China, where he's lived and visited off and on for, like, forever. I just caught up with an article he had in the December Atlantic,...
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