Commentary: Declining energy research budgets are a cause for concern Public investment
into energy research falls for a fourth consecutive year, with no rise in private research and development 16 October 2017
1) around 3/4 of the funds you claim go into «Climate Research» actually goes
into energy research — but it's common for the Big Carbon funded shills to misrepresent this
The first thing necessary is to start putting significant amounts of money
into energy research.
The under - reported story of the Jimmy Carter Presidency was the enormous resources — including from universities and not just governments that went
into energy research.
And you've seen the graphs of not just the U.S., but the O.E.C.D., when you compare different sectors, it's unbelievable how little goes
into energy research if it's as important as world leaders say it is.
Not exact matches
Research also has to continue in biofuel, turning plants
into energy.
The
Energy Department's ARPA - E program has conducted early - stage
research into technologies such as advanced batteries, fusion and nanotechnology.
The agreement «opened the door for Russia to enter
into Asia's gas market,» said Keun - Wook Paik, senior
research fellow at the Oxford Institute for
Energy Studies.
By conducting
research on the flow of capital
into off - grid
energy systems in Canada, they will use these findings to propose strategies for diverting funds towards long - term economic and clean power in these regions.
Author Carmine Gallo, who has written on the history of TED Talks, cites scientific
research from Dr. Paul King of Texas Christian University as well as insight
into how the brain processes new information (and expends
energy while doing so).
And the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) had evidence that Iran had been
researching how to convert the fissile material from these enrichment facilities
into a nuclear bomb.
ARC
Energy Research Institute forecasts $ 30 billion will be spent in conventional and tight oil and gas formations in Canada this year, which is more than twice the $ 12 billion in investment projected to go
into the oilsands, but still well below the peak of $ 46 billion spent in Canadian conventional oil and gas production in 2014.
that this added
energy, when it is made available to the human social organism, can only be usefully and effectively employed in one way: it must be transformed
into research and creative work.
Raskin also reported that not one story coming out of the six - week conference dealt with UNESCO's battle against illiteracy, its development of alternative
energy sources, its educational programs for scientists and engineers, its basic
research into food production, and scores of other accomplishments during 1980.
Scientists have
researched a critical point --- > physical building blocks of the universe have gradually vanished; that is, atoms and quarks no longer seem solid at all but are actually clouds of
energy, which in turn disappear
into the void that seems to be the source of creation.
Putting the ANZOS
research findings
into context, the same dietary survey used for the study (2007 Kids Eat, Kids Play) found that beverages including sugar - sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks contributed a relatively small and declining proportion of total
energy intake amongst Australian children:
We're investing a great deal of time, money and
energy into research and development so that we can produce certified gluten - free craft beers that everyone can enjoy.
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.
Better electrical engineers create more efficient power lines or light bulbs or heating elements etc, which reduce
energy consumption across the board, which takes unnecessary electricity money and diverts it
into more pure
research, which gives bio and biotech more money to work with, which produces more bio and biotech work.
To choose a couple of examples, our Carbon Action 2050 initiative aims to help individuals and companies to devise and implement schemes to reduce their
energy use, and we have conducted extensive and original
research into corruption within the industry, and have made our findings available to the Serious Fraud Office, the Anti-Corruption Forum (which we are a member of) and Transparency International.
The New York Power Authority and the New York State
Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) are investing more than $ 1.5 billion into many renewable energy projects, a cost that will eventually be paid by rate p
Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) are investing more than $ 1.5 billion
into many renewable
energy projects, a cost that will eventually be paid by rate p
energy projects, a cost that will eventually be paid by rate payers.
He also wanted to create a
research program to improve the efficiency of gas turbines used in power generation systems that convert heat
into energy.
While the entire system of grants, subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives need to be reformed, a line item that needs to be looked
into is funding for
energy research, which accounts for 9 billion dollars.
The flash lamps that pump the initial
energy into many lasers must be cooled for minutes or hours between shots, making it hard to carry out
research that relies on plenty of data, such as investigating whether, very occasionally, photons transform
into particles of the mysterious dark matter thought to make up much of the universe's mass.
One year ago, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
into law, which handed out billions of dollars for science, health,
energy and other
research.
«Before policy makers can integrate
energy considerations
into food security interventions, it is necessary to consider the state of wood fuel
research and how it might be expanded to better serve social needs,» Mendum said.
And it continues to pursue
research into alternative fuels and technologies that can further reduce the carbon intensity of
energy applications across a variety of sectors, including electricity production and transportation.
The National Institutes of Health and the Department of
Energy held a conference in 2001 to celebrate 10 years of conducting
research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project, as we reported in our story «A Decade of ELSI Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into the
research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project, as we reported in our story «A Decade of ELSI
Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into the
Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing
into the Future.
That's a policy that can generate huge revenues, which can then be put
into clean -
energy research and development and programs to get more renewable fuels out there.
As long as nuclear technology remains important for keeping America in its current position of global leadership, the U.S. government will keep pumping
research's life - blood (money)
into nuclear -
energy - related science.
Real
energy, creativity, and labor must be directed — by scientists, institutions, and funding organizations — toward the integration of meaningful, well - conceived training
into the
research activities of every science trainee, at every level... including, notably, the nation's postdocs.
Additionally, we need to continue funding
research conducted by the Department of
Energy into the energy - water nexus and find ways to reduce the water demands of energy produ
Energy into the
energy - water nexus and find ways to reduce the water demands of energy produ
energy - water nexus and find ways to reduce the water demands of
energy produ
energy production.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Nuclear
Energy Systems (CANES) conducts
research into novel nuclear fission fuels and technologies.
«Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon: New adsorption of gas
into porous carbon simulations are of interest to
energy research and climate change mitigation.»
As Hockfield moves
into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable
energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering
research, accompanied by the translation of that
research into market - ready applications.
A
research team at Korea's KAIST University used a screen - printing technique to create a flexible glass fabric wristband that turns this thermal
energy into electricity.
«The proteins we study are part of the most efficient system ever built, capable of converting the
energy from the sun
into chemical
energy with an unrivaled 60 percent efficiency,» said Yulia Pushkar, a Purdue assistant professor of physics involved in the
research.
Among the highly publicized events was a series of spectacular and potentially lethal slip - ups involving such gold - standard federal
research establishments as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration, and a hearing looking
into those agencies» safety shortcomings by the House
Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Fusion
research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the
research into using fusion to generate
energy.
He dove
into mainstream topics, working on nuclear and particle physics at Harwell, Britain's civilian atomic
energy research center.
In mice, the hormone helps convert white (or «bad») fat
into more useful
energy - burning beige fat, molecular biologist Keertik Fulzele of Boston University and colleagues reported in the February Journal of Bone and Mineral
Research.
The center conducts basic and applied
research into desert meteorology and solar
energy, hydrology, ecology, plant and animal physiology, and cellular and molecular biology, with applications in pollution biodegradation in particular.
«Ideally, we're going to discover some mechanism that carries enough
energy into the corona to heat the corona,» says Amir Caspi, an astronomer at the Southwest
Research Institute in Boulder who is leading the effort.
Research into dark
energy is still in its infancy.
Research at the University of Pittsburgh
into a more
energy - efficient catalytic process to produce olefins, the building blocks for polymer production, was recently featured on the inside front cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Catalysis Science & Technology (May 21, 2017, Issue 10).
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a fabric that converts kinetic
energy into electric power, in cooperation with the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås and the
research institute Swerea IVF.
The report estimates that the U.S. government poured some $ 430 million
into the field between 2005 and 2010, mainly through the Department of
Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency.
This latest study is part of ongoing
research by the University and key partners
into waves as a renewable
energy source.
The fledging Advanced
Research Projects Agency -
Energy, whose mission is to quickly translate the best ideas from basic science
into budding technologies, avoided falling victim to any partisan battles this year as well.
Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable
energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules
into orbit.