A national push for energy innovation
In a spirited talk at MIT, former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm presented a plan for a bipartisan initiative that she said could help the United States regain a world leadership role in the creation of new clean-energy technologies — and the thousands of new jobs that those technologies could provide.Introduced by her “old pal,” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and MIT President Susan Hockfield, Granholm spoke at Tuesday’s reception on clean-energy innovation. The event was hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative and the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, a program that its co-director, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science Ronald Prinn, described as a “unique collaboration between the natural and social sciences.”“At MIT, we’re bullish on clean energy,” Hockfield said in her introduction. In fact, she said, “bullish is an understatement. We’re maniacs about it!” She added that she sees the clean-energy domain as a major area...