Sentences with phrase «do renewable energy research»

I have never seen that textbook in the United States, and that is because political interests linked to fossil fuels have ensured that we don't do renewable energy research in this country.

And the guy still couldn't do renewable energy research.

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And DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, which does much of DOE's applied work on clean - energy research, would grow by 8.3 % to $ 2.07 biEnergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, which does much of DOE's applied work on clean - energy research, would grow by 8.3 % to $ 2.07 biEnergy program, which does much of DOE's applied work on clean - energy research, would grow by 8.3 % to $ 2.07 bienergy research, would grow by 8.3 % to $ 2.07 billion.

So, too, did a number of proposals to boost research into renewables or fossil fuel energy.

«My research is primarily centered on converting us from a fossil fuel - based infrastructure to a renewable - or solar - based infrastructure so we can rely on renewable forms of energy that don't pollute the world at all.

Most forms of renewable energy are intermittent, says Elias Siores at the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation at the University of Bolton in the UK — the wind doesn't always blow and the skies aren't always cloud - free.

The findings from this study, done through DOE's Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), could help scientists design a safe and stable metallic lithium anode and ultimately pave the way for the practical use of high - energy - density battery systems for electric vehicles and storing renewable eEnergy Storage Research (JCESR), could help scientists design a safe and stable metallic lithium anode and ultimately pave the way for the practical use of high - energy - density battery systems for electric vehicles and storing renewable eenergy - density battery systems for electric vehicles and storing renewable energyenergy.

The NSF doesn't have money to expand programs beyond their current scope, and if they did, social sciences are not where they should spend their money — renewable energy research is.

My advice to any young aspiring scientist who wants to do cutting edge renewable energy research?

One obvious question is why the DOE doesn't fund renewable energy research, but does come up with billions for coal - to - gas research.

It really points to very serious widespread problems in the U.S. academic and journalistic professions — you can't do research on renewable energy in the U.S. academic system, because of fossil fuel influence, and you can't get honest coverage of renewable energy initiatives in the U.S. press, also because of undue influence by vested interests — and more often than not these days, those vested interests are in finance, not in industry.

Second, if divestment were to reduce the financial resources of coal, oil, and gas companies (which it would NOT do), this would only reduce research and development at those same companies of: carbon capture and storage technologies; other key technological breakthroughs; and renewable sources of energy (the fossil fuel companies are carrying out much of the R&D on renewables).

Hell, why don't leftists get together and invest in renewable energy research.

«If we can directly store solar energy as a chemical fuel, like what nature does with photosynthesis, we could solve a fundamental challenge of renewable energy,» says Zetian Mi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan who led the research while at McGill University.

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

The recently created Adavanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E) is the sort of effort that makes sense in this vein; large economywide subsidies to the deployment of mature renewable energy or nuclear plants are the kind that dEnergy (ARPA - E) is the sort of effort that makes sense in this vein; large economywide subsidies to the deployment of mature renewable energy or nuclear plants are the kind that denergy or nuclear plants are the kind that do not.

Please do not continue to accept stakeholders» perspectives without balancing their claims, which are based on projections of huge financial gains for the renewable energy entrepreneurs and investors or on idealistic environmentalists, against solid scientific research (governmental, academic and independent consultants in Ontario, Canada and internationally).

Taken together, learning by doing and economies of scale mean that a research only approach would not drive down prices as quickly as policies that actually install more renewable energy.

I received an MS in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz a few years ago (in the area of marine nitrogen fluxes); at the time I was a recipient of an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship in microbiology — and I transferred into the Biochemistry department hoping to go into renewable energy research, which seemed to be very interesting, important and useful work — I was particularly interested in algal biochemistry (a great oil source) or fungal enzymes (for cellulose digestion)-- but when I took these proposals to the Dean of Graduate Studies, he shook his head and said «You will never be able to find funding for this kind of work — can't you do something else?»

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With supporting analysis done by the Electric Power Research Institute, the Five Lab Study concluded that biomass cofiring was the single biggest potential contributor to near - term greenhouse gas reductions of any renewable energy strategy.

Most of us used to think that green is good, and that wind energy is renewable and green so it's good, without doing any research and with limited knowledge.