Start with an important universal fact: growth in electric demand outpaces that of all other energy forms.
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In these two we find deep differences between electricity and other energy forms.
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Lower energy forms are produced by a number of different sources, such as the Sun, other stars, and exploding stars.
Additional stations may be included to convert the released thermal energy to other energy forms such as electrical energy and mechanical work.
The arguments, generally, center on whether the U.S. government ought to provide support for nascent energy forms or if so, at what level or in what form.
Also making for a friendlier climate is Colorado's promotion of clean energy forms, such as a policy that requires at least 20% of its power to be produced by green sources like solar and wind energy by 2020.
We live in a world that needs alternative forms of energy which are not hydrocarbon based, forms of energy that do not contaminate at every stage of their lifecycle, that do not place benzene and formaldehyde in our air, diesel fuel in our aquifers and more benzene and formaldehyde as we drive our kids to work.
This is tape from Steven Chu, the American energy secretary, who visited China earlier this year and came away, he said, very impressed with China's efforts to capture wind and solar energy, cleaner forms of energy.
"There's going to have to be new forms of energy, new ways of delivering energy and new forms of infrastructure, " says Warren Karlenzig, president of Common Current, a consulting firm on sustainable cities based in San Anselmo, Calif.
So when we pursue energy independence, when we continue to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by increasing domestic production of fossil fuel energy but other forms of energy, we enhance our security and protect America's future in that way.
And the future is that clean energy -- cleaner forms of energy are going to be increasingly important, because even if folks are still skeptical in some cases about climate change in our politics and in Congress, the world is not skeptical about it.
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In many parts of the country today, solar energy is less expensive than conventional forms of energy, creating consumer demand for solar to reduce monthly energy bills.
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Gingrich called for freeing the energy industry to maximize production of all forms of American energy, from oil to natural gas to clean coal to nuclear power to all forms of alternative fuels.
Instead, energy security will require an unwavering commitment to these forms of energy.
Marine energy is currently some way behind other forms of renewable energy in its development.
These methods convert ambient energy in the forms of light, vibration, heat, radio waves and so forth into electricity.
On the world's reliance on oil, Daniel Franklin said that enormous progress had been made in bringing down the cost of solar energy and new forms of gas, adding that we should "look head on at risks" but we also need a corrective to look at the bigger picture.
David W. Kreutzer, an energy economist at Heritage Foundation, said the government should stop subsidizing all forms of energy.
Traditional forms of energy, i.e. fossil fuels have traditionally been cheaper to produce than alternative forms such as solar and wind.
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Energy has driven the world for over a thousand years Wind, Hydro and Solar are the oldest forms of energy giving power to all smart enough to use it.
It would also slash regulatory costs and barriers, including repeal of Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Obamacare, replacing the EPA, and modernizing the FDA. It would especially roll back regulatory barriers to energy production, unleashing the private sector to maximize all forms of American energy production.
He wanted to know the costs to energy consumers of these proposals compared to other forms of low carbon energy.
To meet its emissions reduction and renewable energy targets, the government needs to increase the amount of energy produced by wind and nuclear power, in particular, but also other forms of clean energy such as biomass.
We consume just over 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent in all forms of energy.
Harnessing new forms of energy will be one of the defining challenges of the 21st century.
For millennia, humans have thrived using the most basic and readily accessible forms of energy.
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And this is an economic way of just bypassing plants or algae or other forms of energy.
So can these forms of energy achieve economies of scale that will allow them to compete without subsidies?
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These forms of energy do not contribute to climate change and can be easily managed to prevent disruption to wildlife.
Hydrolysis--running an electric current through water to produce hydrogen--yields fuel that is usually not economically competitive with other forms of energy.
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