A House of Representatives spending panel today rejected a comprehensive, $115 million education initiative that energy secretary Steven Chu has touted as essential for training a new cadre of scientists pursuing basic and applied research on clean energy.
We also need the federal government to fund the basic and applied science of renewable energy and earth observation.
In my view, the focus should be a positive one in which we convince the American government and other national governments to focus on the basic and applied science of renewable energy.
Such customized and absolutely calibrated measurement tools will serve as an enabling technology that can help in assessing the overall system performance and progress, as well as identification of the underlying interaction mechanisms of interest to basic and applied strong-field and high-energy-density science.
The center conducts basic and applied research into desert meteorology and solar energy, hydrology, ecology, plant and animal physiology, and cellular and molecular biology, with applications in pollution biodegradation in particular.
Microbial catalysed electrochemical systems are intensively used in basic and applied research as a sustainable platform for harnessing energy and generating value added bio-products.
DOE spends roughly $9 billion to maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal, roughly $10 billion on the waste sites, about only $4 billion on applied energy research, and close to $5 billion on basic physical science.
But I am optimistic that the national laboratories, in collaboration with private industry, can provide world-class, mission-driven basic and applied research that will keep America in the forefront of energy technology.
The Department of Energy's R&D programs are providing the basic and applied research needed to move our nation forward into a new era of energy.
"We will not just meet, but we will exceed the level achieved at the height of the Space Race, through policies that invest in basic and applied research, create new incentives for private innovation, promote breakthroughs in energy and medicine, and improve education in math and science.
