A Solution to the Global Energy Crisis?  There is a potential
solution, and possibly only one, to the global energy crisis. It
will require a huge investment, several scientific breakthroughs
and a little luck. But unless we give it the very highest
priority, it will soon be too late.  That's the message that a
highly respected professor of chemistry at the California
Institute of Technology has been delivering for several years
now, but it's not clear whether anyone is listening. Nate Lewis
isn't your typical prophet of doom. He has won a list of awards
as long as the beard he wore years ago as a young scientist when
I first met him. And to hear him tell it, the solution to the
energy crisis is as clear as the nose on your face, or at least
the shadow it casts.  Lewis quips that he belongs to the "Willie
Sutton school of energy management." When asked why he robbed
banks, Sutton responded "because that's where the money is."  "I
believe in that too," Lewis told an energy symposium at Caltech
earlier this yea