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Nate Lewis
Chemistry Professor, CalTech
Dr. Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and has served as Professor since 1991. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992. From 1981 to 1986, he was on the faculty at Stanford, as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The real issue is not whether we can prove that climate change will or will not occur within 30 years. It’s that we don’t really know for sure, but we […]
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In energy technology, it’s clear if your invention works or not. Either the device saves energy and people buy it and find out, or it doesn’t.
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The reason we haven’t innovated enough in energy technology is because energy used to be cheap.
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A process that mimics photosynthesis could create a fuel that provides energy in a convenient form.
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“When carbon dioxide is free to emit, we emit it like it ain’t going out of style.”
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