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February 28, 2013

A Pep Talk on Energy Innovation

Matthew Wald, New York Times


Bloomberg

In what might prove to be his last public appearance as energy secretary, Steven Chu delivered a pep talk of sorts on Wednesday to hundreds of entrepreneurs, researchers and others at the ARPA-E conference on energy innovation in suburban Maryland.

European Pressphoto Agency Steven Chu, the nation’s outgoing energy secretary.

Toward the outset, Dr. Chu, a key creator of ARPA-E, which stands for the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, ticked off a list of historical predictions about new technology that turned out to be wrong.

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