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With a tight federal budget, here's where to focus clean energy research funding

  • Written by Erin Baker, Professor of Industrial Engineering applied to Energy Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageChecking the power output of a photovoltaic concentrator array built by Martin Marietta, Inc., at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico.USDOE/Flickr

The U.S. Department of Energy spends US$3-$4 billion per year on applied energy research. These programs seek to provide clean and reliable energy and improve our energy security by...

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