If so, energy alternatives might become financially feasible and thus worthy of risk investment.
Most of the punditocracy has been preoccupied with how technology enables new energy alternatives to oil.
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There is a plethora of subsidies on both sides of the Atlantic for clean-energy alternatives.
As a result, we're now spending tens of billions of dollars for what may be dubious energy alternatives.
Growing populations in combination with limited fossil fuels and rising environmental standards mean one thing: Energy alternatives are necessary.
Clean energy and development of energy alternatives is, he believes, vital to the economic health of this country in the future.
Here in the U.S., there is a place for the development of energy alternatives and cutting edge technology to sustain our economic and energy security.
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Recently, I interviewed Kristine Pearson, founder and CEO of Lifeline Energy, which improves the quality of life of vulnerable populations by providing renewable energy alternatives to those most in need.
As the Breakthrough Institute has consistently argued, taking clean energy alternatives to scale and building globally competitive clean energy industries will ultimately depend on such improvements in cost and performance.
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Because nuclear energy (stored among particles inside atoms) is millions of times more dense than chemical energy (stored among atoms in molecules), nuclear reactors belong high on our long list of energy alternatives.
There is the opportunity that actions we take to deal with that challenge present to us economically when it comes to clean energy and developing domestic energy alternatives to the import of foreign energy.
Because of higher costs and technical barriers to widespread clean energy adoption, efforts to move the U.S. energy system away from fossil fuels towards clean energy alternatives inevitably comes with a significant price tag.
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All of these cleantech companies are building not geographic monopolies for which few alternatives exist, but commodity conversion businesses, whose economic viability is exquisitely sensitive to shifts in both feedstock prices and energy alternatives across global markets.
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So how are we going to reduce the deficit and at the same time develop clean energy alternatives as well as removing the current systems that we have in place that are dependent on oil and other things from other countries?
And unless we can come up with some energy alternatives that allow us to franchise that technology so that they are equipped to burn that coal cleanly, we're going to have problems no matter what we do in this country when it comes to the environment.
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And certainly as we get into a longer legislative debate on climate change, just in my conversations with the CEO, he talked about the notion of if you actually price greenhouse gas emissions into the production of power, you have a powerful incentive to find clean energy alternatives.
"(ii) reasonable alternatives to the action with adverse energy effects and the expected effects of such alternatives on energy supply, distribution, and use" (Sec. 2(b)).
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Solar-related issues did well, as rising energy costs made alternatives to petroleum ever more appealing.
Because such a very small percentage of our energy sources include alternatives to oil, it could be said that the market for these products has nowhere to go but up.
The U.S. needs to develop all options available, but what it does with renewable energy and other alternatives has to be done on a sound economic basis--not ideology--to get a sure payoff.
All while clean, long existing alternatives for energy are ignored or prevented from being used.
It is hard to conceive of a way to replace that much energy with less dramatic alternatives.
As we let politicians play venture capitalist with our money, can you think of any industry that offers more competitive alternatives than energy?
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Meredith Fowlie at Berkeley is also hard at work on designing experiments to test the effects of various informational alternatives on energy use.
But there are other companies like British Petroleum, which is now the largest solar company in the world, which is betting on alternatives to energy being part of our energy future and is putting real dollars and real energy behind it.
Additionally, the energy corporations push scarcity of energy to keep prices high and promote their alternatives (wind and solar) to maintain their grip on energy.
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Matsushima, the bomb survivor, is worried about the people exposed to the radiation in recent days, but doesn't see long-term viable alternatives to nuclear energy.
They called for more investment in the production and refining of crude oil, for more efficient use of energy and more work on alternatives to oil.
They spoke not only about the need to find alternatives to traditional energy sources, but whether there'll ever be a concerted effort in developed countries to conserve rather than consume precious resources.
The current environmental crisis poses new challenges to the building and construction industry, in areas where engineering can provide innovative alternatives such as energy-neutral housing and energy efficiency, construction materials and practices, recycling and reuse of materials.
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