We noted in an earlier piece that Bill Gates’s “moonshot” investments to stop climate change, while well intentioned, are misdirected. We do need an Apollo Project for clean energy but it should be an effort that focuses on global deployment of technologies we already have—not on new invention. When it comes to clean energy innovation, today we are where the information technology world was in 1995-2000. There has been a huge number of clean tech…
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