UPE Seminar

SUBTITLE: What wood can teach us about energy

Consumers increasingly want energy that is renewable, clean, and affordable from solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biomass sources. One of the simplest and oldest of renewables is direct combustion of wood. Wood supplied more energy than fossil fuels in the United States until the 1880s, when coal superseded wood.

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Richter UPE 16 Oct.pdf

Abstract: As practiced by most scientists, statistics is first and foremost a religion with mathematical trappings that function to scare the intuitive, the rebellious, and the heretical into submission. What is done and taught with respect to particular statistical issues shows little consistency from one nation to another, one university to another, one textbook to another, one discipline to another, one editor to another. Where there is some consistency, the majority is wrong.

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2009AncientBlackArt.pdf