Science, Technology and Energy
Best Ideas
- Negative research findings database
- Scientists are beyond the control of dictators
- A moratorium on releasing genetically-engineered organisms
- Free speech leads to technological progress
- One country to specialise in supporting inventors
- Inventing your own constellations
- A fractal universe
- A decade of energy turbulence
- Motors running for months without electricity
- Solar Enterprise Zone (SEZ)
- A London forest for heat and electricity
- The world's only water-powered Aga
- Wheat-burning stove
- Technology in 25 years' time
- Dismantling skyscrapers and automobiles
- Energy-generating treadmills for dogs
Social Inventions
- The joy of inventing
- Patents are a rip-off
- Answerphone messages on technological malfunctions
- Tobacco as fuel and as food
- Save mines with cheap coal purification?
- The brain is not a computer
- Intelligence at the end of the universe
- Burning CO2 to save the planet
Book of Visions
- True conservatism
- Machines on a moral spectrum
- Hippocratic Oath for Scientists
- UN Declaration of Scientific Responsibility in Relation to Nuclear Weaponry
- Reward the invention, not the feasibility study
- Necessity not the mother of invention
- Psychedelics caused evolution from apes?
- A twentieth century Mendel?
- Ecotechnology Research
- Rebates to customers reducing electricity consumption
- Energy loans
- Fluorescent lamps changed free of charge
- Less towel washing in hotels
- Muscle power into electricity
- Science Fiction - can it work?
- Can life survive the end of the universe?
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