The energy crisis turned into a fund-raising opportunity for Ovshinsky.

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As the state sunk into an ever deeper fiscal crisis, he continued to expend his energy on the grandiose and beyond the point: establishing a Californian policy for combating climate change, boosting an unaffordable High-Speed Rail system, and even eliminating plastic bags.

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During the energy crisis of the late 1970s the government financed research into catalysts for coal gasification, only to drop the projects after oil prices fell and natural gas was deregulated.

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