AAAS-Hitachi Lecture: Energy Specialist Ernest Moniz Describes Multiple Technologies—and Political Innovations—Needed for Low-Carbon Future

Innovative technologies hold great promise for weaning us from reliance on carbon-based fuels, but the political and economic innovations needed to make it happen may be in short supply, a leading energy specialist said recently at AAAS.

Ernest Moniz, a professor of physics and engineering systems at MIT, sketched a roadmap to a low-carbon future but acknowledged that it is not going to be easy to achieve. “I’m optimistic on the technology side,” Moniz said. “On the policy side, I’m less confident.”

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