Already the largest producer of carbon emissions by some estimates, China has another energy problem: efficiency.
Now that's out of the way, maybe Congress will focus on solving our energy problem.
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Renowned innovator and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that within 20 years we will have our energy problem licked.
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They will remember the fundamental problem that we have, an energy problem that is global, massive and is not going away.
In reality, the country is only one major disruption away from a very serious energy problem that could have wide-ranging consequences.
Regarding our energy problem, we do get quite a bit of our oil from Mexico, Venezuela, and elsewhere in Central, South America .
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Nuclear fusion, a theoretical way of harnessing power by fusing atoms which is still under development, may one day provide a cleaner alternative to the world's energy problem.
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Some of my colleagues have observed the significant drop in capital costs of solar cells in recent years and concluded that the energy problem is solvable, if not essentially solved.
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Still, wind machines will not solve America's energy problem.
What we need is for the true scientists to come out and be allowed to work on these zero-point energies that will solve this scarcity of energy problem once and for all.
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Interestingly, while Argentina faces an energy crisis, experts think that fuel-oil imported from Venezuela cannot resolve the Argentinean energy problem in the long run and scarcely in the short run.16 It seems Kirchner has become an ally of Hugo Chavez because he feels that he represents a new spirit in Latin America.
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But the fact of the matter is, is that if we don't think about using energy more efficiently, then we're not going to solve the climate change problem and we're not going to solve the energy independence problem.
Congratulations to energy entrepreneur and PITCH 2012 speaker Danielle Fong for closing the Series D round of venture financing for her Berkeley-based startup (working out of the former Scharffen Berger chocolate factory) to pursue a solution to the energy storage problem with compressed air.
But how to store such energy is a huge problem that, so far, has eluded solution.
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The third problem is energy policy and its environmental impact.
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The question is, can you create more jobs by expanding that and also helping to take care of another problem like energy efficiency, which we all know is a big avenue towards saving -- toward doing something about greenhouse gases.
Sometimes, these rotations bring big payoffs, such as when 3M realized that the problem of laptop battery life was really a problem of energy used up too quickly for illuminating the screen. 3M researchers applied their knowledge of see-through adhesives to create an optical film that focuses light outward, producing a screen that was 40% more efficient.
The energy crisis is a global problem, so it makes sense for us to seek a global solution.
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The problem: Harnessing energy that doesn't generate the gases said to lead to global warming remains a difficult, gritty business.
"We didn't have a failure in the generation of energy, we had a problem in the transmission line, " Mr Lula said.
Summers suggested the nation faces four major problem areas: energy, health care, inequality of income and continued strength of our financial system.
Consumer Focus said mis-selling had been a persistent problem in the energy industry, and urged the regulator to tackle the issue "head on".
The second problem is that energy majors looking for fracing action in Europe are not necessarily the companies with the greatest expertise or incentive.
Alcohol Concern chief executive Eric Appleby said he hoped they would use the findings to help them focus their energy on schemes to tackle problem drinking.
But in the bigger picture, the petrol-from-air idea joins a legion of others that are trying to crack the far bigger problem of storing energy produced by renewable sources.
One of the people looking to solve Alaska's major problem of high energy costs is Steve Haagenson, who Gov. Sarah Palin appointed as Energy Coordinator for the state earlier this year.
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