Climate demands rapid energy conversion, experts say

A panel of energy experts called on industry and the U.S. government to rapidly embrace technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and carbon sequestration.

The Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday hosted a panel titled “Innovation and the Energy Crisis,” where speakers cast global warming as an urgent problem.

Growing energy demand, notably from developing nations such as India and China, coupled with climate change caused by global warming, have created a situation that requires both technology and new government policies, panelists said.

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