Lucien Crowder
BulletinOfTheAtomic
Orangevale, CA, United States
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Past articles by Lucien:
A hot, dark, hungry future?
Can tiny particles in the atmosphere keep the world from starving? Volcanoes suggest they can’t. → Read More
Electric cars for everyone—someday
Electric vehicles are awesome. When will they become truly affordable and convenient? → Read More
The coastal retreat has begun
When do you concede that climate change won’t allow you to stay where you are? Maybe… now. → Read More
Nuclear subs. Sea lions. Massive bags of money.
If you’re ever offered a tour of a nuclear missile submarine, hold your wallet tight. → Read More
US Senate prods the White House on cyber
The legislative branch, though theoretically co-equal with the executive, often lies supine before it. But on cyber issues, maybe it's rising to a crouch. → Read More
Place your bets: Deep fakes and the midterms
Perhaps you’ve heard of the famous 1980 wager between population scientist Paul Ehrlich and business professor Julian Simon. Ehrlich wagered that, due to population pressures, a basket of five metals would increase in price over the subsequent 10 years. → Read More
Place your bets: Deep fakes and the midterms
Will AI-enabled fake videos play a role in this year’s elections? Researchers are willing to bet tiki drinks on the answer. → Read More
Customer sentiment drives businesses toward clean energy
Days ago, the global consulting and auditing firm Deloitte released a report on energy usage and energy attitudes in the United States. → Read More
The patriotic path to rooftop solar
“Solar power is all about the freedom to afford to run your AC.”That’s John Almond talking. He’s co-founder of Semper Solaris, a San Diego–based installer of solar panels. → Read More
Beware Korea—but which one?
Sometimes you can read a lot of news analysis—and I mean a lot—without encountering an idea that strikes you as truly fresh and exciting. → Read More
The rise of renewable cities
The prospect of worsening climate change can stress you out pretty badly. Some folks are losing sleep over it. Others are foregoing parenthood. → Read More
Saving whales in the Seychelles
In case you’re fuzzy on your African geography—my own ongoing effort to learn the name of every country on the continent has never quite reached its goal—let’s review the basics of the Seychelles. → Read More
AI and climate: On the “bleeding edge” with a pioneering researcher
This collision of climate science and artificial intelligence is so new that we know who named it. Meet her. → Read More
DARPA does nature
Acronyms—those clanking runes, that acid to the eye—must have been concocted by the devil himself. Imagine a Book of Genesis in which A&E were happy in the GOE until they ate the fruit of the TOK. The word of God would have perished in the desert. → Read More
To catch a drone: Pyeongchang casts a wary eye upward
When, in just eight days, the Winter Olympics get under way, the world will react as it always does. Canada’s national frenzy for hockey will reach a quaking crescendo. Baffled janitors exposed to curling will remark that nobody gives them gold medals for sweeping. → Read More
DC: Shutting down cybersecurity?
This weekend or soon thereafter, if Congress hasn’t managed to pass a stopgap spending measure—never mind an actual budget—the government will run out of money. National parks will close to the public. Passport applications won’t get processed. Government websites won’t be maintained. → Read More
Don’t fear the robopocalypse: Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre
What autonomous weapons are good for, what they’re bad at, and why banning them is going to be a very difficult challenge. → Read More
Pray for rain: Climate change means trouble for Iran's ayatollahs
It’s widely accepted—at least by those who accept global warming as fact—that climate change contributed to the outbreak of Syria’s civil war. Now, according to experts interviewed by Scott Waldman of E&E News, it appears that climate change has also played a key role in Iran’s current round of political protest. → Read More
Artificial intelligence eats chess computers for lunch
After 25 years of intermittent seriousness, I’m a mediocre tournament chess player. Grandmasters play at a level that beggars my comprehension. But since the second Clinton administration, grandmasters have looked like clowns against chess computers. → Read More
Neuro, cyber, slaughter: Emerging technological threats in 2017
Nuclear weapons have threatened humanity for more than 70 years. Anthropogenic climate change, though largely unrecognized until recent decades, had its beginnings in the 19th century. Wouldn’t it be nice if advances in technology stopped throwing new problems at the world? No such luck. → Read More