USA creates the tech but China and Germany mass produce it. THE DOE should be closed, they are clueless when it comes to how we fuel our transportation and the costs involved. Chew's DOE will loan to automakers for alt fuel development, but we have no distribution network, as I show on this channel. T. Boone Picken's call me if you want to solve this.
Chu said:
Here is an example of current DOE transformational research. As this Committee knows, we have funded three BioEnergy Research Centers one at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; one led by the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, in close collaboration with Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan; and one led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Each of these centers is targeting breakthroughs in biofuel technology development that will be needed to make abundant, affordable, low-carbon biofuels a reality. While these efforts are still relatively new, they are already yielding results, such as the bioengineering of yeasts that can produce gasoline-like fuels, and the development of improved ways to generate simple sugars from grasses and waste biomass.
We need to do more transformational research at DOE to bring a range of clean energy technologies to the point where the private sector can pick them up, including:
Gasoline and diesel-like biofuels generated from lumber waste, crop wastes, solid waste, and non-food crops;
Automobile batteries with two to three times the energy density that can survive 15 years of deep discharges;
Photovoltaic solar power that is five times cheaper than todays technology;
Computer design tools for commercial and residential buildings that enable reductions in energy consumption of up to 80 percent with investments that will pay for themselves in less than 10 years; and
Large scale energy storage systems so that variable renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power can become base-load power generators.
This is not a definitive list, or a hard set of technology goals, but it gives a sense of the types of technologies and benchmarks I think we should be aiming for. We will need transformational research to attain these types of goals. To make it happen, we will need to re-energize our national labs as centers of great science and innovation. At the same time, we need to seek innovation wherever it can be found the new ARPA-E program will open up research funding to the best minds in the country, wherever they may be. I pledge to you we will have this program up and running as soon as possible.
Broader, More Effective Collaboration: DOE also needs to foster better research collaboration, both internally and externally. My goal is nothing less than to build research networks within the Department, across the government, throughout the nation, and around the globe. Well better integrate national lab, university, and industry research. And we will seek partnerships with other nations. For example, increased international cooperation on carbon capture and storage technology could reduce both the cost and time of developing the range of pre- and post-combustion technologies needed to meet the climate challenge.
Speeding Demonstration and Deployment: While we work on transformational technologies, DOE must also improve its efforts to demonstrate next-generation technologies and to help deploy demonstrated clean energy technologies at scale. The loan guarantee program will be critical to these efforts by helping to commercialize technologies, and the Recovery Act funding for weatherization and energy efficiency block grant programs will accelerate the deployment of energy efficient technologies.
The private sector is way ahead, the government should take from their example not greate a myth and tax US to death to solve Chu's and Obama's mirages.
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You are mistaking science with quality of life-trading off fundamentals for a quick buck. Know that China mass produces precisely because we in the US enjoy such a high standard of living.
I'll bet that you don't know anything about the good work that LBNL does. Without research, improvements to fuels and technology cannot happen. If we extend the argument a bit, we could say that university research needn't be funded.
flamingxombie 1 year ago