He sees a day coming soon when DNA can be written like software and custom microbes can be «programmed» to
generate inexpensive energy, fertilizer, drugs, or food.
How do we reduce carbon emissions in the absence of high carbon prices and what strategies can accommodate developing countries» overriding need
for inexpensive energy?
The not so sunshiny state of Washington also
enjoys inexpensive energy and the small city of Wenatchee has turn an doubtful heart for miners in the U.S.
Home to 12 of the largest miners in the country, the conveniently located small city of Wenatchee, located in Port of Douglas county, offers
impossibly inexpensive energy interjection to the hydropower capacity.
«To paraphrase public opinion in the state, if there's
inexpensive energy available to us, it sure would be nice to have a safe way to get it,» Levy told me.
Copious, green,
inexpensive energy at $.04 - $.05 / kWh could be achieved via large scale wind, and solar thermal farms, today.
«But also some short - term actions that are needed to reap the benefits of thermal energy storage, one of the
most inexpensive energy storage options.»
A society that depends
on inexpensive energy to maintain a high standard of living and constant growth faces a predicament — it can not maintain itself over the long run without high net energy fuels.
It would provide clean,
inexpensive energy to the residents of some of the poorer counties here, and yet, the environmentalists are blocking it because a) it's a danger to birds and b) it's too noisy and cause noise polution that would endanger many native species.
After many scientific misstatements and much criticism of IPCC science, the authors conclude with a section on the environment and energy that argues for construction of 500 additional nuclear reactors to provide
the inexpensive energy needed for the US to prosper and to end importation of hydrocarbon fuels (particularly petroleum).
Reliable,
inexpensive energy will make the US more attractive for investments by users of such resources compared to other countries where energy is either unreliable or expensive.
But to compete with the cheap labor in Chinese textile mills, he needs
an inexpensive energy source.
The world will be a better place because abundant,
inexpensive energy will enable citizens of developing nations to achieve lives of comfort, well being, and promise for the future.
«Ending coal power production is the right thing to do, because while it may seem to be
an inexpensive energy source, the impact on our environment and the impact on public health is significant,» said Bloomberg.
People who expected all along that global warming was junk science, that they would rather have good jobs and
inexpensive energy than pursue some liberal dream of, you know, replacing all fossil fuel with wind and solar power.»