Not exact matches
Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost
of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent
sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods),
advances in
biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)
I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we can not drill our way to energy independence, but must fast - track investments in renewable
sources of energy like solar power, wind power and
advanced biofuels, and those are the investments I will make as president.»
[18:45] Third, to create a market for alternative
sources of energy like solar, wind,, I'll require that 25 %
of our electricity comes renewable
sources by 2025, and that we produce two billion gallons
of advanced cellulosic
biofuels by 2013.
Renewable diesel fuel (other): Diesel fuel and diesel fuel blending components produced from renewable
sources that are coprocessed with petroleum feedstocks and meet requirements
of advanced biofuels.
Specific areas
of interest include, but are not limited to: biological, thermochemical, or thermocatalytic routes for the conversion
of lignocellulosic biomass to
advanced biofuels beyond cellulosic ethanol; microbial fuel cells for direct production
of electricity from renewable carbon
sources; hydrogen production from autotrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms; hydrocarbons and lipids from phototrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms.