• Thumbnail for Vaclav Smil
    Vaclav Smil (Czech: [ˈvaːtslaf ˈsmɪl]; born December 9, 1943) is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus...
    21 KB (2,312 words) - 18:17, 3 October 2024
  • including playlists and animated SVGs Vaclav Smil (born 1943), Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst smil.mil, an access to SIPRNet Izmail, a town...
    533 bytes (95 words) - 17:25, 20 February 2024
  • dancer Václav Patejdl, Slovak singer and composer Wacław Potocki, Polish nobleman, poet and writer Václav Prospal, NHL hockey player Václav Smil, scientist...
    3 KB (332 words) - 20:45, 8 October 2024
  • Energy and Civilization: A History is a 2017 book by Vaclav Smil, published by The MIT Press. The book is a "comprehensive account of how energy has shaped...
    1 KB (52 words) - 13:12, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haber process
    rather than under 15% of the total land area that is required today. — Vaclav Smil, Nitrogen cycle and world food production, Volume 2, pages 9–13 The energy-intensity...
    69 KB (8,166 words) - 21:58, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nipper
    Gallery alley named after HMV dog Nipper". Surrey Comet. 1 January 2010. Vaclav Smil, Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914 and...
    16 KB (1,707 words) - 01:30, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yanmar
    Martin Publications. July 7, 1980. ISBN 9780906237151 – via Google Books. Vaclav Smil (30 July 2010). Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact...
    11 KB (809 words) - 15:13, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carl Bosch
    Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8. Smil, Vaclav (2001). Enriching the earth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. OCLC 61678151...
    17 KB (1,559 words) - 05:10, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ironsand
    Page 31--32 Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World by Vaclav Smil -- Elsevier 2016 Page 6 Scientific American -- Conversion of cast iron...
    21 KB (2,980 words) - 13:57, 17 May 2024
  • Limits to Growth.: 905–908  Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst Vaclav Smil disagreed with the combination of physically different processes into...
    16 KB (2,030 words) - 08:08, 8 November 2024
  • the People's Republic of China" (PDF). Wilson Center. 27 June 1981. Smil, Vaclav (18 December 1999). "China's great famine: 40 years later". BMJ: British...
    90 KB (9,178 words) - 17:57, 19 October 2024
  • 2005, "is in danger of becoming something of a cliché." Policy analyst Vaclav Smil titled his 2010 book by what he intended to explain: Why America Is Not...
    66 KB (8,205 words) - 15:34, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam engine
    – Die rekonstruierte Kriegslokomotive, GeraMond, ISBN 3-7654-7101-1 Vaclav Smil (2005), Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914...
    78 KB (9,755 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2024
  • Humankind 13 June 29, 2015 Iain Banks The Player of Games 14 July 14, 2015 Vaclav Smil Energy: A Beginner's Guide 15 July 28, 2015 Matt Ridley Genome: The Autobiography...
    13 KB (848 words) - 13:52, 14 March 2024
  • of Bill Libby Gates, sister of Bill Nicholas Kristof Warren Buffett Vaclav Smil Nathan Myhrvold Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates was released...
    7 KB (742 words) - 03:39, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gustaf de Laval
    Compressible Flow (Third ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-124136-1. Vaclav Smil (2005). Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914...
    8 KB (769 words) - 03:18, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for World population milestones
    Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2011. Vaclav Smil, "Global Population: Milestones, Hopes, and Concerns" Archived 3 February...
    33 KB (2,274 words) - 16:38, 6 November 2024
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 2009-01-04. Vaclav Smil (2005). Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914...
    42 KB (5,025 words) - 20:30, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plzeň
    German physicist, 2007 Nobel prize winner Karel Gott (1939–2019), singer Vaclav Smil (born 1943), scientist Jaroslav Beneš (born 1946), fine art photographer...
    39 KB (3,873 words) - 09:20, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Energy transition
    centuries. The chronologically first discourse was most broadly described by Vaclav Smil. It underlines the change in the energy mix of countries and the global...
    102 KB (10,519 words) - 02:36, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles University
    the German University. The first rector of the Czech University became Václav Vladivoj Tomek [de]. In 1890, the Royal and Imperial Czech Charles-Ferdinand...
    62 KB (5,203 words) - 10:21, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Food
    37–39. Bibcode:2024NewSc.261b..37L. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(24)00274-4. Vaclav Smil (2004). Enriching the Earth Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation...
    57 KB (5,689 words) - 02:58, 24 October 2024
  • View by Roger Lewin Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere by Vaclav Smil Cosmic Clouds: Birth, Death, and Recycling in the Galaxy by James B....
    12 KB (1,232 words) - 07:13, 23 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eco-economic decoupling
    window of opportunity is closing fast." According to scientist and author Vaclav Smil, "Without a biosphere in a good shape, there is no life on the planet...
    26 KB (2,978 words) - 12:52, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rare Earth hypothesis
    the Rare Earth hypothesis along these lines, see Cohen & Stewart 2002. Vaclav Smil (2003). The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change. MIT Press...
    103 KB (11,945 words) - 18:26, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andrew Revkin
    Rose "9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?" Andrew Revkin's interview with Vaclav Smil at the Quantum to Cosmos festival at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical...
    19 KB (1,503 words) - 14:25, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for University of Manitoba
    Professional and Applied Ethics Carol Shields: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Vaclav Smil: energy systems scientist and policy analyst Peter St John, 9th Earl...
    90 KB (7,892 words) - 19:45, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Health and environmental impact of the petroleum industry
    International Energy Agency (Paris). 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2020-02-09. Vaclav Smil (2016-02-29). "To Get Wind Power You Need Oil". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved...
    58 KB (6,468 words) - 05:38, 26 September 2024
  • without first examining the underlying human causes, while geographer Vaclav Smil acknowledges that "the idea of planetary management may seem preposterous...
    9 KB (842 words) - 20:48, 2 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1880s
    Retrieved May 17, 2007. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Smil, Vaclav (25 August 2005). Vaclav Smil, "Creating the Twentieth Century:Technical Innovations...
    62 KB (7,122 words) - 19:15, 29 October 2024