Energizing Education

By Kleinheider Posted on May 7, 2008 at 7:19 am

Bettina Chavanne warns that Lamar Alexander’s Manhattan project on energy only works if we have enough educated brainpower to concentrate:

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said the time has come for a “new Manhattan Project.” In 1942, he said, the world feared the country to develop the first atomic bomb could blackmail everyone else. “Today, countries that supply oil and natural gas can blackmail the rest of the world,” he said. “We need to guarantee victory over that kind of extortion. Concentrating brainpower to that kind of idea isn’t new.” But that brainpower can only come if it’s fostered and encouraged from an early age.

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Lamar Alexander’s Manhattan Project For Clean Energy

By Kleinheider Posted on April 29, 2008 at 11:50 am

KAG opines on our senior senator’s five year plan to energy independence:

Changing our nation’s energy production and consumption patterns will take bold, aggressive leadership, and a monumental commitment of resources - similar to how we approached putting a man on the moon, and building the first atomic weapon.

But unlike our space race, or the Manhattan Project, any suggestion that we undertake truly bold action on clean energy development will be met with a lot of resistance from extremely powerful forces opposing real change. Nobody (as in Exxon et al) stood to lose money if we made it to the moon in five years.

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