Manhattan Project for Energy?

摘要

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), on May 9, proposed "launching a 5-year New Manhattan Project to put America firmly on the path to clean energy independence within a generation." Speaking at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Alexander, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said he chose the lab for his announcement because "this was one of three secret cities that were the principal sites for the original Manhattan project that split the atom to build the bomb that won World War II." He told a gathering of scientists that this time "instead of ending a war, the goal will be clean energy independence - so that we can deal with rising gasoline prices, electricity prices, clean air, climate change and national security - for our country first, and - because other countries have the same urgent needs and therefore will adopt our ideas - for the rest of the world."