U.S. SCIENCE POLICY: Legislator Wants NSF to Offer $1 Billion Energy Prize
Date: Sunday, May 28, 2006 @ 18:40:08 UTC
Topic: Legal
By Jeffrey Mervis / Science, March 10, 2006
"Could a $1 billion prize help end the U.S. addiction to foreign oil? Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) thinks it might.
Last week, he urged the National Science Foundation (NSF) to raise such a prodigious amount from private sources and then give it to scientists offering ideas on how to make the United States energy independent."
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