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The US government must make the Department of Defense a key customer for energy technologies and make greenhouse-gas reductions a public good, say John Alic, Daniel Sarewitz, Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian.

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Alic, J., Sarewitz, D., Weiss, C. et al. A new strategy for energy innovation. Nature 466, 316–317 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466316a

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