DOE to loan billions 2 automakers for alt fuel development why? We have it!
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.
flamingxombie
3 Jul, 2010
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.