The tortoise and the hare

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The tortoise and the hare ENERGY SECTOR ANALYSIS

A capacity for change INTERVIEW

The materials that make an energy company: BP chief scientist Ellen Williams discusses sustainable energy REGIONAL INITIATIVE

Grid battery storage gets big in the States ENERGY FOCUS ENERGY QUARTERLY ORGANIZERS CHAIR David Cahen, Weizmann Institute, Israel Anshu Bharadwaj, Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, India Russell R. Chianelli, University of Texas, El Paso, USA George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Anke Weidenkaff, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology and University of Bern, Switzerland M. Stanley Whittingham, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Steve M. Yalisove, University of Michigan, USA

Masthead updated on December 18, 2012

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The tortoise and the hare

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