History & Milestones

Energy has a long history. Beginning back before people could read and write, fire was discovered to be good for cooking, heating and scaring wild animals away. Then there was the steam-driven Industrial Revolution, followed by an era of electricity-powered machines, followed by a relatively nuclear era.

Links:

• The Most Important Events in the History of Energy
• Some of the Most Important People in the History of Energy
• Nobel Laureates Associated with the Department of Energy and Predecessor Agencies    

Discoveries:

• Decades of Discovery
• Office of Science Alerts
• ePrint Network
• DOE Pulse
• Energy Science News
• Lab Science Publications

What's up in the future?

• The Human Genome Project and Beyond
• US Energy Projections to 2025
• The International Energy Outlook
• How much oil and natural gas is left in the earth?
  (Answer: we know about roughly 2,528 billion barrels of oil)