The federal government has started to address the need for green technician and efficiency retrofit training, such as with the Green Jobs Act, but it has not implemented an education strategy to keep the U.S. at the leading edge of energy science, technology, and entrepreneurship.
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Speaking before a 2007 U.S. Joint House Energy and Science Committee, he enthused that just a little legislative magic could convert bad carbon into an enormously profitable commodity.
Several other agreements are expected to be signed during the two-day summit in South Africa's coastal resort city of Durban, including in defense, education, energy, science and technology, agriculture and transport, according to South African President Jacob Zuma.
He served as Undersecretary of Energy from 1997 to 2001, overseeing all science and energy programs for DOE as well as the national laboratory system (think herding cats with PhDs).
The findings have just been published in Energy and Environmental Science, a professional journal, in work funded by the National Science Foundation.
He held a variety of ministerial briefs under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - including pensions, science and energy.
He held a variety of ministerial briefs under Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown including pensions, science and energy.
This story is one of four parts examining the scientific output of different nations in biology, clean energy, and computer science.
This story is the first of four parts examining the scientific output of different nations in biology, clean energy, and computer science.
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The scientists are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and funding agencies in the Czech Republic, Greece, India, Russia and the United Kingdom.
However, he warned against focussing disproportionately on the eight areas of excellence outlined by the Chancellor in November ("big data" computing, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, agricultural science, energy storage, space, robotics and advanced materials including nanotechnology).
In his speech, Mr Osborne set out seven further areas where the government thinks Britain is a world leader and can and must go further: computing, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, agricultural science, energy storage, robotics and advanced materials including nanotechnology.
Office of Science devoted 20% of its 2010 budget to energy innovation funding, while supporting additional fundamental physical science research.
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I'm currently a frequent contributor to Astronomy magazine, Renewable Energy World.com and Science magazine's online news service.
He called for more investment in education, research, science and clean energy.
The NOvA detector will be operated by the University of Minnesota under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
The law of the conservation of energy, so significant in science and philosophy, was formulated four times independently in 1847, by Joule, Thomson, Colding and Helmholz.
And, when you look underneath the science, dark energy is really an undiscovered force of nature that changes how we understand and explain what we observe to be true.
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But the venture world has learned some hard lessons on the difficulty of building energy businesses: they face science risk, often take a long time to scale and can be capital intensive.
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Mr Victor is broadly versed in climate change, good on the science, the energy- related business and the politics as well as the policy, and a more engaging writer than most academics who study international relations.
Directed energy has long been considered science fiction (and frankly some of the real world programs should have stayed in science fiction), but it looks like this is the generation where we will finally see it be used on the battlefield.
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As a student in Singapore studying engineering, Vivek decided to combine his interest in nanotechnology with his passion for the environment to attempt to turn carbon emissions from industrial plants and automobiles into carbon nanotubes, which are used for composites, nano-electronics, optics, energy storage, and other science applications.
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Some folks in Washington also want to close the deficit by gutting our investments in things like clean energy or medical research or basic science.
Our expanding cooperation in areas of social and human development, science and technology, energy, and other related areas will improve the quality of lives of millions of people in our country.
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We are willing to partner with countries around the world to deepen ties of trade and investment, and science and technology, energy and development -- all efforts that can spark economic growth for all our people and stabilize democratic change.
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Mr Obama unwisely limits energy production, he said, saying science supported backers of oil exploration.
Congress needs to make every attempt to minimize cuts in the areas of science and technology, advanced energy, and manufacturing to ensure long-term economic prosperity.
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