US Capitol Capsule: 'Stunning' US biomed science on verge of economic catastrophe
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Forget clean coal, wind or solar energy. The brain power alone at the 2012 Celebration of Science – the Comic-Con of science and research, sans the Batman costumes – could have generated enough electricity to run Las Vegas indefinitely, with perhaps one of those geniuses already working on such a solution.
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