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Carbon Tax Versus Cap-and-trade Approaches To Global Warming - Part 2

As you may recall from Part 1 of this article, in the cap-and-trade system many companies might get away with carbon emissions that are below the “certified limits”. And that’s a crucial point since cap-and-trade policy might bog down in implementation nightmares. Who is going to determine the “caps” on an industry by industry, and company by company basis? Wouldn’t that require a new immense federal bureaucracy of its own?

However the momentum right now seems to be still with the cap-and-trade idea. As of this writing in April 2007, five different cap-and-trade measures are currently being evaluated in the U.S. Senate.

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Nanotechnology And Your Future

You hear nanotechnology used more and more often these days - and it has made some impact in everyday life. But the real change and payoff will occur much further down the road when real molecular manufacturing is possible.

Dr. Eric Drexler, author of Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation, has been pushing this field for twenty years, and it’s finally starting to go mainstream.

What Is Nanotechnology?

A nanofactory is Dr. Drexler’s concept for safe production of everyday objects from a desktop device that converts raw material molecules into finished products. In a matter of hours! Various predictions put the nanofactory in the 2020 to 2030 time-frame.

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