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A new strategy for energy innovation

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The US government must make the Department of Defense a key customer for energy technologies and make greenhouse-gas reductions a public good, say John Alic, Daniel Sarewitz, Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian.

Limiting the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere requires a technological and economic revolution1,2. This kind of change takes decades, even if it is driven by powerful market and policy forces — which this one is not. We therefore suggest a new, forceful strategy for the United States, the world leader in innovation and the world's second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

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  1. John Alic is an independent consultant in Avon, North Carolina 27915, USA. john_alic@earthlink.net,

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  2. Daniel Sarewitz is co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University and is based in Washington DC, USA.,

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  3. Charles Weiss is a professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057, USA.,

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  4. William Bonvillian directs the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Washington Office, Washington DC 20002, USA.,

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Alic, J., Sarewitz, D., Weiss, C. et al. A new strategy for energy innovation. Nature 466, 316–317 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466316a

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