Looming energy crisis requires new ‘Manhattan Project’

The United States urgently needs an effort similar to the Manhattan Project or NASA’s moon mission to confront a looming energy crisis, according to scientists at a high-level energy conference.
Soaring global demand for energy and rapid depletion of resources need to be addressed by a long-term government-led project similar to the World War II-era effort to develop an atomic bomb, University of Southern California scientist Anupam Madhukar said at the annual National Energy Symposium on Thursday.

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