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Energy Innovation: Low Cost Solar Cell Assembles Itself
the future of solar energy?
Researchers from Rice University and Penn State have developed a relatively efficient organic solar cell based on a compound polymer that assembles itself into tidy bands.[read more]
Smart Energy Campus: Smart Grid Research, Energy Innovation
Philadelphia's new Smart Energy Campus will serve as a "hub for workforce training, building performance testing, energy management research and ‘smart’ microgrid modernization deployments.”[read more]
New Energy Secretary: Tackle Climate Change with Efficiency and Renewable Energy
new DOE Secretary Moniz
The budget proposal for FY2014 would give Moniz a solid start in advancing the low-carbon economy, by increasing funding for renewable energy, advanced vehicle research and development, and energy efficiency programs.[read more]
Secretary of Energy for a Leaner DOE?
Ernest Moniz
The choice of Moniz also reflects many of the key challenges facing the Department of Energy at this moment, not least the preservation of its R&D activities.[read more]
Federal Nuclear Energy Investment: Small Modular Reactor Technology
small modular reactor
In contrast to large nuclear reactors, which have enormous components that are shipped to and assembled at the site where they will operate, SMRs will be assembled in a factory.[read more]
How Do Obama And Romney Stack Up On Science Policy?
Economic growth is front and center in this presidential election, but the two candidates haven’t spent much time talking about two of the most important drivers of the economy: science and technology. Science is not only at the root of our increasing prosperity but it is also the best tool we have to understand our own health, our planet, and our future.[read more]
Bill Gates Calls For More Energy Research Funding
Bill Gates sees the transformative potential of low-cost energy. “Cheaper energy would be on the list of the three or four things you would want for the poorest people in the world,” he said Tuesday at the 2012 Energy Innovation Summit, sponsored by ARPA-E, the Department of Energy’s three-year-old advanced energy research agency....[read more]
Dog Food Beats Energy
A new article in U.S. News & World Report notes that the dog food industry invests more in R&D than the electrical sector does. This is something we at Breakthrough Institute have been saying for a while, so it's good to see it's catching on. From the article: If technology in the home is racing ahead at broadband speed, the...[read more]
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“One real question, is how much energy did this "investment" produce?Another, related question, is what was the external cost of this investment.The answer to the first question can be found on the web page of the California Energy Commission.http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electric_generation_capacity.html1533 Gigawatt-hr as of 2012.The second question, will be, as always, obscured ...”
“This reflects some of the Vehement/viceral/ One track minded attitude that I think I've noticed with some Renewables/GW enthusisats. I will use some humour to exaggeratingly illustrate the point. In a Top Secrete, High level SPANISH Government debate.."The Economy is bad, what tough choices do / MUST we, COURAGEOUSLY make to recover?"........Fund Solar Power, or Feed the ...”