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John Holdren to be Obama's Science Advisor
Peak Oil News —
... makes rhetorical gestures toward the private sector, he still seems to think that new technologies arise full-blown from government agencies and university laboratories. In any case, Obama is clearly signaling with the appointment of a Green Team, including Holdren as science advisor, Carol Browner as "energy/climate czar," Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy, and Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator, that he means to make a big federal push on alternative fuels and carbon rationing. Reason
DrumBeat: December 19, 2008
The Oil Drum —
... because it has no power to manufacture products, and so on. And the new systems of using good quality coal, a product of which we still have many millions of tones underground in Europe, promise that with new power stations designed to ‘capture the carbon output,’ we can actually get to the stage where OPEC will be begging us to buy their black liquid gold because they will not have enough storage facilities for it. But what about vehicle exhaust pollution?
John Holdren to be Obama's Science Advisor
In his salad days, Holdren was a paid-up ...
