How Federal Funding for Basic Research Spurs Clean Energy Discoveries the World Needs: Eight Case Studies

Addressing climate change is urgent, which is why so many activists, pundits, and elected officials argue for taking action now by banning fossil fuels, subsidizing or mandating the production or consumption of more expensive clean energy alternatives, and changing individual behaviors.

They also argue that we would have all the technology we need to solve climate change if we would just muster the political will to use it.