Obama's progress? That's a laugh. All this Kenyan Klown has done regarding clean energy is to waste BILLIONS of dollars on Solyndra type scams.
Posted on 04/06/2016 7:07:33 AM PDT by Cyberman
So much of America's future is at stake in the 2016 presidential election. But let's focus for a moment on just one area--energy and the environment--where the Obama administration has made startling progress....
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, arguably President Obama's best Cabinet appointment, has been leading a quiet revolution in clean-energy technology. Innovation is transforming this industry, costs are plummeting and entrepreneurs are devising radical new systems that create American jobs--in addition to protecting the planet....
Here's a suggestion for any fact-based, technology-respecting candidate in either party: Promise that, if elected, you'll try to persuade Moniz to remain in place....
Moniz showed me the future of energy technology last month during a visit to one of his pet projects — the “innovation summit” of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E. As the name implies, it tries to do for energy what DARPA has done for defense science. A tour of the exhibits shows why the program is succeeding: It connects with the market. Since 2010, 45 projects that were initially ARPA-E-seeded have received an additional $1.25 billion in follow-on private funding.
First, some Energy Department numbers that illustrate the transformation that's underway: The cost of purchasing energy-efficient LED lights has dropped 90 percent since 2008; the cost of producing large-scale solar energy has fallen 60 percent over that period; prices for wind energy and efficient batteries have declined by more than 40 percent.
As costs have fallen, usage has increased radically. Since 2008, the number of LED lightbulbs installed in the United States has increased from 400,000 to 78 million. Wind energy production has tripled; production of solar energy has increased nearly 20-fold. And scientists say we're still fairly early in the cycle of innovation and cost reduction....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I don’t think so.
Ah, the WaPo.
No science education.
No economics education.
Perfect progressives.
The only “progress” the Islamic agent has made is make Al Gore richer.
Obama's progress? That's a laugh. All this Kenyan Klown has done regarding clean energy is to waste BILLIONS of dollars on Solyndra type scams.
We need safe nuclear power.
Clean power is unreliable. Solar only works in the daytime and wind only works when the wind is blowing.
By making it compete in the marketplace with other sources of energy.
Drill, baby, drill!
Like Solyndra? And other money laundering efforts?
If it is worthwhile, and perhaps much of it is, private citizens and industry will adopt it all by themselves.
The quote about increased use of LED lightbulbs drives me nuts. Many of these are mandated. Low energy and supposed “long-life” bulbs are super expensive, and don’t last anywhere near as long as claimed.
This article is pure statist, Obama propaganda.
American innovation and can-do spirit do not need massive government subsidies to remain viable. This stuff does.
I stocked up on what I hope, at my age, will be almost a lifetime supply of the traditional bulbs when they began phasing them out.
Coal and natural gas are just fine!!!
Don’t worry. She will.
Another Liberal vainglorious article that is filled with as much hubris and deceit as it is vacuous.
After the author gushes rhapsodic over Sec. Moniz mostly because he was trained at MIT, he goes on to spout technologies that would have come into existence with or without government intervention, probably faster without such intervention. Once again proving that Liberals do not trust the free market, but place all their faith and longing in government — as long as they are running it!
Moreover, the author, not surprisingly, completely and deceptively fails to even breath mention to all the failures of “clean energy”. No mention of the fraudulent waste of Solindra and other such taxpayer subsidized programs that have cost taxpayers Billions. No mention of the likely bankruptcy of SunEdison and the billions of taxpayer funds there.
So no, I pray that the next president does not follow Obama’s disastrous clean energy policies, or any other Obama policy for that matter!
“Ignatius” seems to be a fancy word for “stupid.” I wonder what his real name is?
Obama is well on his way to destroying coal with gas in his sights. This is having large impacts in flyover country. Job loses are continuing while state budgets are a mess, while we throw money at inefficient wind and solar, some day these fools will run out of other people’s money.
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