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Doing Hard Time in Fossil Fuel Prisons: Is Public Investment in R&D Un-American?

June 17th, 2011

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This piece was originally posted on The Huffington Post.

The June 15 House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing (PDF) on federal energy programs smacked of science fiction. A government agency is actually doing its job. Fuel for cars made from sunlight, wind turbines that could be suspended in the air like kites on their own power, a method to capture carbon dioxide based on the human lung; all are possibilities that the Department of Energy (DOE) is helping explore.

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