Monday, March 9, 2009

***Team Obama wants to pursue high-risk, high-reward initiatives on energy

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11804030
energy experts and officials in the Obama administration see a similar "Sputnik moment," urgent and global in scope, over energy use and climate change. And they want to try some new ventures, similar to efforts in the Cold War, to stimulate technological advances in energy and shift the economy away from oil and coal.