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Innovation Should Be Central to Next Energy Secretary’s Agenda
Now that President Obama has nominated candidates to head the CIA and the Departments of Defense, State, and Treasury in his second term, attention now shifts to his choices for the rest of the Cabinet, including Energy Secretary. A Politico report today suggests that the two leading candidates are former North Dakota Senator Byron...[read more]
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“I believe that the FF companies, since they have the money to do so at this time, will invest in the machine automation required to mass produce batteries and solar. The object is to extract the cheapest, most abundant sources for these new energy components.As something to think about, solar's growth averaged about 33% and as of 2012, was a whopping 78%. Now, if subsidies were reduced to where ...”
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