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DENVER—A physics professor and renewable energy advocate says the federal government should launch a massive campaign to meet rising energy demands and deal with global warming.
Martin Hoffert says the effort should be on the scale of the Manhattan Project, which developed the country’s atomic bomb, or the NASA program that put astronauts on the moon.
Hoffert spoke at a land-use conference at the University of Denver Thursday. He is a researcher and a professor emeritus at New York University.
Hoffert says the next president should make the energy secretary as important as the secretaries of defense and state.
He and others are urging Congress to spend $30 billion a year to develop cleaner energy.
