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  All that funding combined over 5 years is less than the 1981 SERI budget in today's dollars. And the need today is a thousand times the need when Jimmy Carter was president. Before Reagan, SERI was doing passive solar housing, solar hot water, solar industrial process heat, pv, concentrator thermal power plants, and every imaginable subsystem. SNLA, JPL, Georgia Tech, and many other universities were also funded by President Carter to do public-domain solar research. Where is the leadership today?On A solar energy future: Maybe you can get there from here posted 1 week, 2 days ago 2 Responses

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  Citizens of the US spend $700 billion per year just on fossil fuels, not including the equipment that burns carbon. That is a lot of influence. Reducing carbon combustion just 20% (not near enough according to the science of chemical climate change) would require an investment of $140 billion per year, would be easy, would be cost effective, would create over one million jobs, and would generate at least $14 billion profits per year without subsidies. The alternative is grim beyond belief.On Clean energy is an easy choice posted 1 week, 4 days ago 3 Responses

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  The economy will do just great with tar sands, shale oil, fractured natural gas, liquefied coal,,,. Global heating and mass extinction is the fatal flaw of that economy.On So what if global warming is a hoax? posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago 35 Responses

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  Its like the Tower of Babel, everybody talking and no one listening. Anybody got questions? I do. What are the fundamentals, like cost of materials, tooling, labor, maintenance, and so on? What is the annual performance, displaced carbon, and return on investment before taxes and before subsidies? Have VC gods of Silicon Valley deployed anything competitive against fossil fuels at scale?. Is this the best we can do?On Paging Dr. Chu, venture capitalist posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago 2 Responses

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  I want to believe, but I do not believe top-down fame will reach the ground. We need education, engineers, and manufacturing from the ground up.On Three faces of hope for climate change posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago 3 Responses