EXPERTS QUESTION DARPA MODEL FOR NEW CLIMATE RESEARCH AGENCY

Participants at a recent Washington roundtable are warning of potentially significant obstacles to creating an Energy Department research and development program aimed at boosting technological advances to address climate change and other energy-related issues akin to the much-heralded Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) -- DOD's long-term research branch. DARPA, created by the U.S. government in response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, is DOD's long-term research arm that spawned numerous innovations including the technological framework for the Internet...