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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Moving away from fossil fuels will only take four things: time, money, technological advances and a calibrated judgment about what projects should be pursued.

“The commonly invoked silver bullet is the wrong way to look it. We have limited time and limited resources,” said Steve Koonin, undersecretary for science Department of Energy, at the Western Energy Summit at NASA Ames in Mountain View, Calif. “We cannot let 1,000 flowers bloom indiscriminately.”

“The deployment of inefficient feel-good technologies is doubly bad,” he added, because they give the illusion of progress and divert resources from promising projects. Manhattan Project metaphors are distracting, and have involved making “a few gadgets” for one customer in complete secrecy with an almost unlimited budget (see Why We Don’t Want a Manhattan Project).

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