Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America's Energy Choices [Paperback]

Drawn from the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics. The contributors present a range of ideas and recommendations that might improve the performance of the United States in responding to the energy challenge.

 Jeremy Carlis a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources and a research Fellow with the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University.

James E. Goodbyis a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow with the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.

 A new era of energy policy

New ways to respond to the energy challenge

Building a bridge to a cleaner and more secure energy future

Over the past forty years, our energy policies have left us in a place that is dangerous to our economy, our national security, and our climate. But we still have a chance to get it right. InConversations About Energy, members of the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Energy Task Force offer ideas and recommendations that might improve the performance of the United States in responding to the energy challenge. Their recommendations cover a number of key policy areas, including:

·         Distributed energy

·         Energy efficiency

·         Internationalizing the nuclear fuel cycle

·         Synthetic biology: issues and prospects

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