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There's a lot of noise about wind, solar and ethanol. We're working on these too, but they won't be ready to meet escalating global demands. Eighty percent of what we use today is fossil fuels; 80% of what we'll use 20 years from now is fossil fuels. The carbon molecule and combusting it is the only way we've figured out to economically move people and generate power. Diversity of supply is the answer. That means nuclear energy and investing in clean coal technology...
...fossil-fuel costs rise, though, the U.S. could become more competitive. "As an industry we are probably five years behind Germany," says Rhone Resch, president of Washington-based SEIA, who compares solar with the software and computer industries in their early stages. "But the U.S. market is starting to wake up." SEIA projects the U.S. will be the world's biggest market, with $25 billion in revenues, within five years...
...audience of students and activists sensed the Senator's timidity and became palpably less enthusiastic as Obama went on. Just two days before, Al Gore gave a rousing speech in New York City in which he proposed a far more dramatic alternative energy plan: a hefty tax on fossil fuels that would be used, in turn, to reduce Social Security and Medicare taxes. I asked Obama why he didn't support an energy-tax increase married to tax relief for working Americans in the MoveOn speech or in The Audacity of Hope. "I didn't think of it," he replied...
...that depends in part on the accuracy of fossil dating and the reliability of using genetic variation as a clock. Both methods currently carry big margins of error. But the more primate genomes that geneticists can lay side by side, the more questions they will be able to answer. "We have rough sequences for humans, orangutans, chimps, macaques," says Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute and a leader of the research team that decoded the chimpanzee genome. "But we don't have the entire gorilla genome yet. Lemurs are coming along, and so are gibbons...
...Gasoline easily solves the latter problem because it is so easy to transport compared to, say, a lighter-than-air gas like hydrogen. Hydrogen, which is at best a troublesome way to store energy, is being touted as an energy source when the actual source of hydrogen is a fossil fuel. In the end, hydrogen is just a convenient way for handling the energy originally stored in natural gas—except that, given current technology and infrastructure, it’s not so convenient...