Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and                  interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies,                  and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to                  reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy innovation system must be                  radically overhauled. Unlocking Energy Innovation outlines an up-to-the-minute plan                  for remaking America's energy innovation system by tapping the country's                  entrepreneurial strengths and regional diversity in both the public and private                  spheres. The authors map three waves of energy innovation to show how we can speed                  up the introduction of new technologies and business models and accelerate their                  deployment on a massive scale. "Business as usual" will not fill the                  energy innovation gap. Nor will wishful thinking--common enough today, with                  politicians and others talking up some technologies, talking down others, and                  claiming that if we price it, or if we mandate it, or if we simply say it often and                  inspiringly enough, the innovations will flow. Only the kind of systemic,                  transformative changes to our energy innovation system described in this provocative                  book will help us avert the most dire scenarios and achieve a sustainable and secure                  energy future.

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