* that BP is funding research into «ways of tackling the world's climate problem» at Princeton University to the tune of $ 2 million per year for 15 years * that BP is funding
an energy research institute involving two other US universities to the tune of $ 500 million — the aim of which is «to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment» * that ExxonMobil itself has donated $ 100 million to Stanford university so that researchers there can find «ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming»
Hasnain now works for the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, as head of the glaciology team for TERI,
an energy research institute headquartered in India.
If climate scientists got together as a group and insisted that their academic institutions set up renewable
energy research institutes (along the same lines as any other organized research unit), they would clearly be bucking the academic establishment.
Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable
energy research institutes at America's leading universities.
Not exact matches
It leads the nation in patent applications because of the high concentration of high - tech
research institutes, including the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Researc
research institutes, including the Center for Solar
Energy and Hydrogen
ResearchResearch (ZSW).
«About 20 years ago, you might have been considered strange to install a solar system on your roof,» says Niklas Martin, executive director of the Berlin - based Renewable
Energy Research Association, an organisation that links some of Germany's top renewable energy insti
Energy Research Association, an organisation that links some of Germany's top renewable
energy insti
energy institutes.
Most of Germany's non-university
research institutes are members of the Renewable Energy Research Association (FVEE)-- Europe's largest green energy research
research institutes are members of the Renewable
Energy Research Association (FVEE)-- Europe's largest green energy research ne
Energy Research Association (FVEE)-- Europe's largest green energy research
Research Association (FVEE)-- Europe's largest green
energy research ne
energy research research network.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a fabric that converts kinetic
energy into electric power, in cooperation with the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås and the
research institute Swerea IVF.
Using the
institute's facilities, the
research team can apply the local situation to «play out» and test future smart
energy management solutions already today.
Others do less well: The
Research Centre for Energy, Environment, and Technology and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) get only 3.6 % and 1.0 % more, respectively, whereas institutes for research in agriculture and mining see their budget slightly d
Research Centre for
Energy, Environment, and Technology and the Spanish National
Research Council (CSIC) get only 3.6 % and 1.0 % more, respectively, whereas institutes for research in agriculture and mining see their budget slightly d
Research Council (CSIC) get only 3.6 % and 1.0 % more, respectively, whereas
institutes for
research in agriculture and mining see their budget slightly d
research in agriculture and mining see their budget slightly decrease.
The Blaustein
Institutes are comprised of three world - renowned
research institutes: the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, and the Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy R
research institutes: the Zuckerberg Institute for Water
Research, the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, and the Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy R
Research, the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, and the Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and
Energy ResearchResearch.
It has also signed an agreement with MIT, through the
institute's
Energy Intiative, allowing the company to carry out jointly
research programmes on plasma physics and advanced fusion and electromagnets technologies.
The discovery, jointly announced by a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and astronomers associated with the Dark
Energy Survey — a multinational collaboration of
research institutes in the U.S. and Europe — could help scientists unravel the mysterious dark matter that constitutes over 84 percent of all matter in the universe.
In 2011, the Department of
Energy initiated a program involving a multidisciplinary team from national laboratories, universities and
research institutes to address the fundamental challenges of economically extracting uranium from seawater.
About Leti CEA - Leti, a technology
research institute at CEA, is a global leader in miniaturization technologies enabling smart,
energy - efficient and secure solutions for industry.
- Cato Institute: Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Competitive Enterprise Institute: Environment - Free - Market Environmental networkRoom - Green - Watch - Heartland Institute's Common - Sense Environmentalist Suite - Heritage Foundation:
Energy and the Environment -
Instituted for Economic Affairs: Environment -NewEnvironmentalism.org - Pacific
Research Institute: Center for Environmental Studies - Political Economy
Research Center - RAND: Environment and
Energy
German
research institute Fraunhofer
Institute for Solar
Energy Systems (ISE) and equipment supplier Schmid have jointly developed a production for customizable modules for building - integrated projects.
He has more than 20 years of experience in strategizing and implementing climate and
energy policies in both the U.S. and China, with an extensive international network of central and local governments, think tanks, NGOs,
research institutes, state - owned enterprises, and multinational companies.
The Passive House
Institute (PHI) is an independent
research institute that has played an especially crucial role in the development of the Passive House concept - the only internationally recognised, performance - based
energy standard in construction.
Research institute Verso Economics reveals that for every «green job» created by taxpayer subsidy, 3.7 jobs are killed in the real economy and that, thanks to the artificial rise in
energy prices caused by renewable subsidies, at least 50,000 people a year in Britain alone are driven into fuel poverty.
Strategies could be provided to be used by airline operators to improve their air traffic management (which is also a recent focus of ICAO) or for governments to collaborate with manufacturers and
research institutes to improve technology, such as with the Continuous Lower
Energy, Emissions, and Noise (CLEEN) Program in the United States.
The
institute is set up to be a regional and international center for
research and technology in clean
energy.
Motivated to «address one of humankind's greatest challenges,» Cornell scholars investigate environmental policy affecting public health, renewable
energy, and other topics in seven acclaimed
research institutes.
- Cato Institute: Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Competitive Enterprise Institute: Environment - Free - Market Environmental networkRoom - Green - Watch - Heartland Institute's Common - Sense Environmentalist Suite - Heritage Foundation:
Energy and the Environment -
Instituted for Economic Affairs: Environment -NewEnvironmentalism.org - Pacific
Research Institute: Center for Environmental Studies - Political Economy
Research Center - RAND: Environment and
Energy
«A November 2009 German economic paper from the Ruhr University Bochum and RWI, a publicly funded
research institute, concluded: «It is most likely that whatever jobs are created by renewable
energy promotion would vanish as soon as government support is terminated.»
«With climate change and
energy legislation pending on Capitol Hill, our
research suggests that more attention needs to be given to the existing perverse incentives for dirty fuels in the U.S. tax code,» said the
institute's senior attorney, John Pendergrass.
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Energy University /
Research institute Water
We are working with a number of other institutions in various aspects of the
research programme, including the World Bank and regional development banks, the International Monetary Fund, International
Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations agencies and a variety of other
research institutes around the world.
Ren21 — a global renewable
energy policy multi-stakeholder network that connects governmental bodies, nonprofit organizations, industry associations,
research institutes and universities, and members of civil society — recently conducted a massive, 75 - page report on a large variety of potential renewable
energy...
The
research involved was done by the German space -
research institute, which has long worked on
energy analysis, too; its experts were commissioned to do the work by Greenpeace, and a Greenpeace staff member with an engineering background, Sven Teske, was the scenario's lead author when it was published in a couple of different forms in peer - reviewed journals.
What Monbiot, May and Ward fail to mention is that Exxon committed something like $ 2.5 m pa for ten years to fund an
institute at Stanford University to
research energy and climate.
By investing in the green sector, and in oil, and in «
research institutes» who make loud noises in favour of policies and PR that will push up the price of fossil fuel and subsidise green
energy, he's not simply backing both horses in a two - horse race; he's backing two horses in two, one - horse races.
I study
energy and commodity markets for an Australian
research institute, and have a doctorate in economics as well as masters degrees in business administration and finance.