U.S. must invest in technologies to avoid energy crisis

Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel laureate in physics, has advocated for energy thrift. During a September visit to Washington, D.C., he spoke with senior editor Janet Raloff about how he believes the United States can tackle what he sees as a looming energy crisis.

You’ve said the United States needs to launch an energy research program that’s comparable to the Apollo mission.