Today, manufacturing accounts for 25 percent of U.S. energy consumption and carbon emissions, and the industrial sector as a whole is the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the nation, at 30 percent. Changing how industry produces materials and products is...

By Alireza Dayerizadeh
PowerAmerica Ph.D. Student

When I was about 10 years old, my father gave me an old shortwave radio and showed me how to tune it to receive stations from Europe and Asia.

This experience had a profound effect on me. I was in awe at how a voice could travel through thin air across the globe and be picked up by an innocuous...