Policy must be informed by the best available science. Likewise, scientific research must focus on those issues that are of primary concern to the policy makers. The TAF project has since lead to dozens of scholarly articles and spin-off projects such as the National Electricity Market Model and other efforts to analyze the costs and benefits of technology research and development programs. But the quantified benefits were found to be several times greater. The lion s share of measured benefits was due to improvements in human health.
Research is a probabilistic process . . .
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