That is, we want energy that is plentiful, cheap, sustainable (if not renewable), clean (relatively), safe (again, relatively), predictable, and broadly or equitably accessible.
Some scientists are making an end run around the spider problem and working on reinventing the one silk that is plentiful — that of silkworms.
But it has been missing something that is plentiful in North America and Asia: fossils of horned dinosaurs.
ACT II Over three decades he built an awesome land machine, gobbling up 13.7 million acres to drill mostly for natural gas a fuel that is plentiful, cheap, clean and, McClendon says, can power America.
Over three decades he built an awesome land machine, gobbling up 13.7 million acres to drill mostly for natural gas--a fuel that is plentiful, cheap, clean and, McClendon says, can power America.
But researchers studying sooty terns, Onychoprion fuscatus, an island-nesting species that is plentiful throughout the Atlantic, report a strong positive correlation between "wrecked" individuals found throughout the Caribbean and the number of tropical storms, particularly hurricanes (ref).
The program assimilates weather data that are plentiful but hard to analyze for those on the ground.
These recipes use vegetables (and fruits) that are plentiful now, or will be at some point before midwinter.
The food supply that was plentiful yesterday may be exhausted today, and the foraging animal that always returns to the same spot will starve to death.
He gets up at 5 a.m. to work out, and always eats the carrots that are plentiful in the City Hall bullpen.
Citing what social psychologists call the scarcity principle, Mr. Eastwick and Dr. Finkel write that "individuals tend to place less value on objects or opportunities that are plentiful than those that are rare".
