Energy
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Texas A&M chemical physicist Dr. Dudley R. Herschbach believes the role of higher education is to produce two things: discoveries and people who make discoveries. And, he believes in getting them when they're young. "Every little kid is a natural scientist," he says, "because they're naturally curious. And they also want to understand the things they see so they ask lots of 'why' questions. And that's what science is."
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The surprising news from Dr. Scott W. Tinker, director of The University of Texas at Austin's Bureau of Economic Geology, is that there is no such thing as "U. S. energy independence," for at least several decades. The good news is that "energy security" is very much within our capabilities and perhaps a better vision.
"The nations of the world are simply too interdependent for there to be any wisdom in pushing the idea of energy independence," Tinker declares. " As the world flattens and globalizes further, we actually become more interdependent. But energy security is a completely different thing and it is viable."
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