Word: biomass
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...sixty year old New England lawyer, and recently departed Institute of Politics fellow, spent much of his career developing environmentally sustainable, alterative energy sources—first at a pioneering hydrogen and biomass company, and later at his own electricity conservation firm. For twenty years, King hosted the public television program “MaineWatch” and brought together local Democrats and Republicans, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, religious leaders and politicians to soberly reflect on public problems and agree on practical “common-sense solutions...
...parcel out nearly $10 billion in tax breaks and subsidies to oil and gas companies that will not erase falling production but instead enrich oilmen and investors. At the same time, the President's proposed budget slashes spending on wind research by 5.5%, zero-energy buildings by 50% and biomass by 19%. To add to the insult, the Administration took the money to print its 170-page 2001 National Energy Policy out of the budget for renewable fuels...
CORREA: Renewable energy is something we should talk about carefully. There is a perception that renewables in a large industrial economy could make up the bulk of our power. But we are just a little too far away from the sun. Whether you're talking about biomass, photovoltaics, or wind moving because the sun heats the earth differentially, it all comes from the sun. If you calculate how many watts per meter the sun puts to the earth and ask whether that is enough to run our very high energy consumption--this is a question...
...doesn't need to be saved by us, and we couldn't kill it if we tried. What we do need to save--and what we have done a fair job of bollixing up so far--is the earth as we like it, with its climate, air, water and biomass all in that destructible balance that best supports life as we have come to know it. Muck that up, and the planet will simply shake us off, as it's shaken off countless species before us. In the end, then, it's us we're trying to save--and while...
...must do better than we are doing. We should cap carbon emissions from power plants and make cars and trucks more efficient. Renewable fuels like ethanol from corn and other biomass sources can displace oil in vehicles, if we help create the opportunity...