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...must improve the performance and economics of renewable-energy technologies (those using sunlight, biomass, wind, and so on), in order to expand the share of energy needs that they can meet...
...percent, these numbers might not seem all that bad. At least, not until one considers exactly what programs will be cut to accommodate this financial strait jacket. To cite just a few, the Nuclear Research Initiative, a program designed to promote research on safe civilian nuclear power, and the Biomass Research Development Program, which is intended to finance research on green power, will both either be terminated or have their funding significantly reduced...
...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...