Even if we permanently shut down the oil
wells in the Gulf and put a cap on carbon, do we know how to move forward in constructing
a sustainable energy future?
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What kinds of people do we imagine inhabit the
world? This question came to mind as I
was reading the Executive Summary of America’s Energy Future, a
forthcoming report from the National Academy of Engineering.
This summer, while interacting with villagers in the
Western African nation of Ghana, along with a team of faculty and students from
ASU, I was able to test one of the central tenets of Sarewitz’s and Nelson’s commentary
published in Nature in December, 2008,
that a successful innovation (policy) rests upon the wisdom to know which
problem will cede to technological solutions and which ones will not.
While the climate change policy has struggled
beleaguered to the finish line, what will it take to actually spur an energy
revolution? A revolution that is ripe with inventions and innovations penetrating
the market, shaking up entrenched technologies, and changing the way we the
people relate to energy?
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