Sentences with phrase «basic energy research»

We included a wedges - style graph with my 2006 news article on declining investment in basic energy research and development.

This funding supports basic energy research, the development of high - performance computing systems, and research into the next generation of energy sources.

Aaron Appel is an organometallic chemist with a focus on basic energy research related to the production and use of fuels through catalysis and electrocatalysis.

Here are two fresh statements, on geoengineering and on the choices being made by Congress — at least so far — in regard to financing for basic energy research as a component of federal legislation on climate:

The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic energy research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

... This puts us one step closer to doubling funding for federal basic energy research.»

«Governing is about setting priorities, and this legislation will put us on a path to double basic energy research — one of the best ways to keep good paying jobs from going overseas,» said Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN) in a statement.

The original COMPETES established ARPA - E to quickly develop the best ideas from basic energy research into budding technologies.

Industry invests in things that can be commercialized in a few years; I hope we can develop a funding mechanism that works for really forward - thinking basic energy research.

Among other things, Obama needs to spell out more clearly how he plans to clamp down on leakage from natural gas production, sustain investments in basic energy research despite lower energy prices and also overcome barriers to the deployment of non-polluting energy technologies.

The total federal spending on basic energy research and development doesn't even match the funding at one big institute within the National Institutes of Health.

I've focused a lot of late on the decline in government - supported basic energy research and development (here and everywhere else outside of Japan), even as many experts say a big increase is both vital and affordable.

There has been a growing realization of late that without an aggressive expansion of basic energy research and development focused on non-polluting technologies, targets alone are not likely to get a fast - growing world to reduce emissions in time to avoid harmful climate changes.

In order to meet our future energy demands, we must continue to invest in basic energy research to improve our current technologies to better utilize traditional forms of energy, as well as explore new energy resources.

As president of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Peterson knows that President Donald Trump's 2018 budget proposal would slash federal support for basic energy research, which is done predominantly on U.S. campuses like his.

As part of its call for increased funding for the Department of Energy, the Senate version of COMPETES would boost spending on basic energy research.

«The proposed budget includes massive cuts to national environmental remediation programs, earth sciences, and basic energy research,» he said.

Only one industrialized nation, Japan, has sustained investments in basic energy research and development in the decades since the first oil crisis.

One theme that is largely missing from the book is an examination of the disinvestment in basic energy research and development over the decades in the United States and most other industrialized countries.

Original post As world leaders meet in Paris on Monday to kick off two weeks of talks aimed at shaping safe targets for emissions of greenhouse gases, Bill Gates will be in town, as well, to announce a modest first step toward bolstering the basic energy research and technology development that will be needed to meet those targets affordably.

Ultimately, a big increase in government spending on basic energy research will happen only if scientists can persuade the public and politicians that it is an essential hedge against potential calamity.