Sentences with phrase «in energy research»

The green band is a half - century of federal investment in energy research.

Consequently, we need a major increase in energy research funding and special policies for land use.

A search for a silver bullet is under way in energy research, be it artificial photosynthesis or third - generation biofuels.

But, where is the market failure in energy research?

I asked him how much direct federal investment in energy research and development would be sufficient.

Now the big question is whether their handlers will allow them to engage the thorniest scientific issues — like the dribble of money that the United States has invested in energy research through Republican and Democratic administrations and Congresses; fetal rights and embryonic stem cell research; the need to add a cost to burning fossil fuels; reconciling science with belief in an all - powerful deity; the theory of evolution, which so many Americans (read voters) reject; etc..

«The North East has lost a lot of nuclear power plants already,» Dr. Jeff Terry, a professor of nuclear physics involved in energy research at the Illinois Institute of Technology, told TheDCNF.

The U.S. is grossly underinvested in energy research, says Obama's science adviser.

Both propose $ 150B over 10 years in energy research and both use the exact same 80 % reduction by 2050 goal.

These and over twenty other energy and environmental centers are currently working throughout WVU drawing from the expertise of more than 150 faculty members who have are active in energy research at WVU.

Ultimately, government and the private sector should commit to establishing global centres of excellence in energy research and technology that would place Canada at the forefront of energy research and innovation.

Accessing CSIRO's expertise in energy research and modelling capabilities through the scenario planning process enabled the partner to identify multiple new business opportunities resulting in competitive advantages for their business today and into the future.

Whether you are training as traditional Ph.D. student, an EngD student, or a postdoc, a career in energy research requires a combination of advanced technical skills and creativity.

So states the motto of the Prometheus Corporation, the world leader in energy research, production and distribution.

Finally, on the policy side, if there's evidence that existing technology is inadequate to affordably decarbonize a growing global energy system on a scale that would matter to the climate, and it's clear that we've utterly disinvested in energy research for decades, it's my job to write that, as I did in 2006, and repeat it on the blog as much as necessary.

In some ways, the choice is apt, given the importance of Asia in coming years, both as the dominant source of growth in greenhouse gas emissions (India in particular) and as a rising force in energy research and innovation (South Korea, China and Japan).

Thus governments must take other actions such as changing rules so that utilities make money by encouraging conservation, increasing efficiency standards for vehicles, appliances, electronic goods, etc., and investing much more in energy research and development.

Things are no better now, and the underinvestment in energy research is a consistent pattern across the world's wealthy countries.

The question now is whether the push to cut budgets and the rise of a more fiscally hawkish power base in congress will result in big decreases in energy research funding.

This latest study exemplifies how carbon dioxide reduction has become an increasingly active area in energy research over the past several years.

Additionally, carbon dioxide [that's] used to improve oil recovery only partially remedies the problem, as not all of the injected carbon dioxide stays in the ground, according to a 2014 study published in the journal Frontiers in Energy Research.

This requires us to invest massively in energy research and development (R&D).

Public investments in energy research have risen since the lows of the mid-1990s and early 2000s.

Besides promising increases in energy research, Obama also announced the formation of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST), a group that will advise the president on numerous public policies.

One thing Romm forgets (or chooses to ignore) when he tries to rebut me is that I'm not debating him; I'm consuming his arguments, along with output from a host of people directly involved in energy research and analysis.

The reality is we have felt, and CEOs have felt — like the American Energy Innovation Council, for example — that we are significantly underinvesting in energy research and development.

For instance, the White House Web site on energy and the environment says simply: «Investing in the Next Generation of Energy Technologies: Invest $ 150 billion over 10 years in energy research and development to transition to a clean energy economy.»

Bingaman called for the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy to be judged on three key challenges: hiring good people, supporting good science, and getting the private sector involved in investing in energy research.

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.

The same week the research councils launched the new energy programme, Imperial College London launched its Energy Futures Lab to bring together people from different disciplines who are in energy research.

Osborne announced a doubling of investment in energy research, including # 250 million for small modular reactor development and other nuclear R&D.

Two interrelated initiatives were launched to revive global investments — governmental and private — in energy research and development.

[UPDATE, 6/6/08: The International Energy Agency has echoed the call from many climate and energy experts for big increases in energy research, development, and deployment of non-polluting technologies, saying that there is no way to curb greenhouse gases as human populations and economies swell in coming decades without an «energy revolution.»]

You are a member of the American Energy Innovation Council, the AEIC, which calls for a national energy policy that would increase U.S. investment in energy research every year from $ 5 billion to $ 16 billion....

A recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, Richter was a signatory on a letter from 34 Nobel laureates to Obama last year pushing for a big and sustained rise in the federal investment in energy research.

Bill Gates and his partners in a recent push by business leaders to more than triple federal investment in energy research and development owe a deep intellectual debt to Smalley (and Hoffert and others).

I've been updating it since a variant of the graph accompanied my 2006 article on declining investments in energy research (public and private).

[Jan. 15, 8:33 a.m. Updated Obama alludes indirectly to research by the Breakthrough Institute showing that the techniques used to extract gas from shale were developed through federal investments in energy research.]

-- We need to achieve (which has now happened with the stimulus) and sustain (not yet done) a 5 to 10-fold increase in energy research (see Nemet and Kammen, 2007, for an analysis and derivation) from roughly the 2000 energy research levels.

So in general, it is high time we begin a serious conversation about how to generate the necessary, long - term investments in energy research and innovation necessary to address national imperatives including improved security of supply, reduced public health impacts of our energy system, and climate change mitigation.

For most of the past 30 years, investment in energy research, development, and deployment has been in decline.

It calls for a national energy strategy centered on a $ 16 billion annual federal investment in energy research — as much, the group pointedly notes, as the United States spends on imported oil every 16 days1.

Policy at the national level must encourage the deployment of clean energy technologies, and include greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (such as those under the Paris Agreement), carbon pricing mechanisms, and investment in energy research, development and demonstration.

The attached document contains March 2018 updates to our database on U.S. government investments in energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment (ERD3) through the Department of Energy.

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

The CEC's responsibilities include promoting renewable energy development; advancing energy innovation through investments in energy research, development, and demonstration programs; advancing energy efficiency; and promoting affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound transportation energy infrastructure.

The details of allocating the income are tricky, involving social equity, burdens to business, calls to fund other programs (whether related to climate change or not), investment in the future through investments in energy research and development, and decreasing the cost to society by replacing other taxes.