Smil, Vaclav

Smil, Vaclav (2001). Enriching the Earth Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production. Cambridge, MA MIT Press. 

Smil, Vaclav. Energy at the Crossroads Global Perspectives and Uncertainties. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 

Smil Vaclav (2010) Energy myth and realities. Bringing science to the energy policy debate. The AEl Press, Washington, DC, p 215... 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smil, Vaclav. 

According to historian Vaclav Smil, the destructive energy of military weapons has increased by sixteen orders ol magnitude over the past five thousand years. The exploitation of inanimate energy sources... 

Historical Perspectives and Social Consequences Vaclav Smil... 

Few outside China have analyzed the country s predicament more closely than Vaclav Smil, a researcher at the University of Winnepeg, in Canada. China was the most intensive recycler of animal and human waste in the world, Smil says. They were collecting every little hit of organic matter children were cutting grasses from slope lands and dumping it on fields. They returned every possible nutrient to the fields, and they d cultivated every piece of land that could he cultivated. They simply could not produce any more ... 

Cellulose is the most abundant naturally occurring biomass material on earth, and its utihzation as a fuel has not as yet been fuUy exploited. Paper, though presently recycled to some degree, can be included with straw and wood for conversion to ethanol fuel. According to Vaclav Smil s information, the US Department of Energy invested to build six cellulosic plants with combined capacity to 0.1 % of transportation fuel used in the USA (2005). The construction of these plants (one based solely on com stover, one on waste wood, and the rest on a mixture of agricultural wastes and waste wood) should be completed in Silicon Valley by 2011. 

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