Perhaps because energy - related research tends to be expensive, philanthropic support
for energy research is rare.
Consequently, we need a major increase
in energy research funding and special policies for land use.
Some energy experts recommend an increase in spending for
clean energy research and development, which could be financed from carbon tax revenues.
Compare the number of proprietary pharmaceutical research programs in this country to the number of
renewable energy research programs, and you start wondering exactly what is going on.
So we're doubling our spending
on energy research with a major commitment to small modular nuclear reactors.
This guide will highlight some of the leading sources for alternative
energy research funding and describe the priorities of each one.
We included a wedges - style graph with my 2006 news article on declining investment in
basic energy research and development.
Despite the great progress made in
fusion energy research over the past fifty years, there is still no commercial fusion power plant in existence.
In addition to science, it oversees fossil, nuclear, and renewable
energy research programs and electrical grid and technology transfer issues.
He also has thought extensively about energy, technology and engineering issues to the point that he explicitly favors a federal program for
advanced energy research.
It is also one of the many small, medium and large companies that tell a wider story about the economic opportunities associated with solar and
other energy research and innovation.
Unfortunately, the world's governments are spending less on
energy research today than they did back in 1980, although they could certainly afford to spend a few billion more.
High oil = dead economy, jack up the price, watch sales nose dive, watch alternative
energy research sky rocket, watch big oils continued fall.
Several experts we spoke to on background shared their insight into the most important topics in wind -
energy research right now.
There's one exception to the petroleum requirement: The founding document says that petroleum «substitutes» fall within the program's scope, so alternative
energy research remains fair game.
Also, if the history of
energy research provides lessons, such investment still is biased toward the short - term payoff, and can not substitute for sustained frontier - pushing research.
But what if the tens of # billions ear - marked for the most expensive power station in the world instead went on
actual energy research?
They want you to fix the problem by funding alternative
energy research which is a completely different field of work involving completely different people.
The multinational privately - funded initiative will
spur energy research in hopes of making clean energy competitive with fossil fuels.
I do think we would all benefit if the process were accelerated by
making energy research a higher priority and increasing funding.
Private funding is great, but the government must invest in
clean energy research to generate new technologies and make them cost effective.
An amendment to add $ 10 million to the
solar energy research program passed, however, by a close vote of 212 - 210.
This funding supports
basic energy research, the development of high - performance computing systems, and research into the next generation of energy sources.
Once researchers are up to speed and submitting their manuscripts, that will mean 20,000 to 30,000 new free papers a year
on energy research, physics, and other scientific topics.
Toward that end, focusing on energy efficiency,
advanced energy research and deploying much more renewable energy, especially through cities and states, makes a lot of sense right now.
The report also calls for a major investment
in energy research and development as well as demonstration projects — jumping to $ 16 billion per year from roughly $ 5 billion now.
Hearst received a $ 250,000 grant from the New York
State Energy Research Development Agency, which it used to hire green consultants and get its project on track during the early planning stages.
A recent study by the Canadian
Energy Research Institute projects that in 25 years, the oilsands alone will support about 480,000 jobs, adding $ 2.3 trillion to our GDP.
Support from DOE SC user facilities: computations were performed at
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility; microscopy studies used the Center for Nanoscale Materials, Molecular Foundry, and the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences; and the x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies were carried out at Advanced Light Source.
«In the»60s and»70s, utility commissions shared the costs of research and development because they recognized the improvements in efficiency and reliability,» says Jim Woods, director of the U.S. - China Clean
Energy Research Center at West Virginia University and former deputy assistant secretary for clean coal at the U.S. Department of Energy.
NSTX - U draws on a 65 - year - old legacy of fusion
energy research at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory, where in the 1950s physicist Lyman Spitzer created a machine he called a stellarator to produce energy the same way as the sun — through fusion reactions where light elements collide and fuse together, releasing enormous amounts of energy.
Kathryn Janda, author of a recent report on home energy use from the UK
Energy Research Centre said: «Often, buildings don't perform as expected, partially because occupants behave in more complex ways than designers account for; they open windows, leave doors open, generate body heat, keep tropical fish tanks and install plasma TV screens.»
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