http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/doe/ en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:47:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412830/posts When federal inspectors visited Illinois recently to see how the state was using $242 million in stimulus money for weatherizing homes, they were troubled by what they found. A weatherization contractor had done slipshod work, installing a furnace that leaked gas in one home, they said, and the local agency overseeing the work had failed to detect the leak. The state was not inspecting the work of all the agencies administering the work, and the federal government was not making required site visits. In short, both the state and federal oversight of the program fell short, they found. The Department... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412830/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:47:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409322/posts "...The charity was the Joyce Foundation on whose board of directors Obama served and which gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.” And that’s only the beginning of this tawdry tale, Mr. Barnes. The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong. For years now Strong and Gore have been cashing in on that lucrative cottage industry known... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409322/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:57:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405987/posts Russia has reneged on an agreement to deliver a total of 10 kilograms of plutonium-238 to the United States in 2010 and 2011 and is insisting on a new deal for the costly material vital to NASA’s deep space exploration plans. The move follows the U.S. Congress’ denial of President Barack Obama’s request for $30 million in 2010 to permit the Department of Energy to begin the painstaking process of restarting domestic production of plutonium-238. Bringing U.S. nuclear laboratories back on line to produce the isotope is expected to cost at least $150 million and take six years to seven... Space News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405987/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:50:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398426/posts A former education organizer at the scandal-scarred activist group ACORN fraudulently used Department of Education phone-bill accounts to cash in on more than $500,000 in lavish Verizon customer rewards, city investigators charged yesterday. Donnett Davis, 31, of Brooklyn, allegedly obtained spa retreats, Yankees and Mets tickets, $5,000 IBM gift certificates and gobs of other garish goodies from Verizon by registering 9,000 DOE telephone billing codes under an ACORN account in her name, probers said. Usage on those lines between February 2004 and August 2008 was then counted toward her Verizon small-business rewards program, through which Davis was able to redeem... The New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398426/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397788/posts Eight years after the atrocities of 9/11, Americans need to know what public school textbooks are teaching about Islam, radical Islam, and terrorism. The big three textbook states--those that set standards for content because publishers aim to capture their large sales, California, Texas, and Florida--are currently preparing for new textbooks, to be introduced in 2010-13. These books are likely to shape the content of public instruction for several years to come. At this point in a complex process of drafting and adopting "standards," then "frameworks," and finally texts, with time for public comment and revision at each stage, the outlook... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397788/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:21:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367276/posts The U.S. Senate gave final passage to an energy and water spending bill Oct. 15 that denies President Barack Obama’s request for $30 million for the Department of Energy to restart production of plutonium-238 (pu-238) for NASA deep space missions. The House of Representatives originally approved $10 million of Obama’s pu-238 request for next year, but ultimately adopted the Senate’s position before voting Oct. 1 to approve the conference report on the 2010 Energy-Water Appropriations bill (H.R. 3183). The bill now heads to Obama, who is expected to sign it. NASA relies on pu-238 to power long-lasting spacecraft batteries that... Space News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367276/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:43:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361010/posts Public Discourse: Our energy secretary applauds and encourages companies to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its position on climate change. Should any Cabinet secretary, with the powers of government behind him, be threatening U.S. companies? Part of the climate-change mantra is that the debate is over and the science is settled. Just to make sure, environmental groups have sought to pressure businesses to go green or at least keep silent. Now it would appear the whole weight of the federal government is being thrown behind this campaign to coerce and silence real and potential opposition. On Thursday, Steven... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361010/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:16:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2350539/posts NASA is running out of the special kind of plutonium needed to power deep space probes, worrying planetary scientists who say the U. S. urgently needs to restart production of plutonium-238. But it's unclear whether Congress will provide the $30 million that the administration requested earlier this year for the Department of Energy to get a new program going. Nuclear weapons use plutonium-239, but NASA depends on something quite different: plutonium-238. A marshmallow-sized pellet of plutonium-238, encased in metal, gives off a lot of heat. "If you dim the lights a little bit, it glows a little red, because it's... NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2350539/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333225/posts Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 4, 2009 Vice President Biden Announces Finalized $535 Million Loan Guarantee for Solyndra Recovery Act funding will accelerate job creation and help expand marketplace for innovative solar electric panels FREMONT, CA – Vice President Joe Biden, appearing via satellite from Washington D.C., today announced the Department of Energy has finalized a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra, Inc., which manufactures innovative cylindrical solar photovoltaic panels that provide clean, renewable energy. The funding will finance construction of the... WHITEHOUSE.GOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333225/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 05:53:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2330830/posts Our Organizer-in-Chief will address students across America come September 8. In preparation for that teaching moment, Teaching Ambassador Fellows at the Department of Education have prepared a Menu of Classroom Activities to prepare the kiddies. Here are a few of the leading questions: Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials ...? Why is what they say important? What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do? AmericanThinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2330830/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325040/posts For Alternative And Advanced Vehicles Printable PDF of Map Printable PDF of Summaries listed below North Central Texas Council of Governments’ North Central Texas Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology. The project will deploy refueling stations and alternative fuel vehicles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The project includes a portfolio of different technologies and fuels, including B20 (three stations), ethanol E85 (three stations), compressed natural gas (three stations and 97 vehicles), electricity (four recharging sites and 34 vehicles), and 251 hybrid electric vehicles. In addition to the city fleets, high mileage and high visibility fleets are included, such as Coca-Cola, Sysco,... http://www.energy.gov/recovery/cleancities.htm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325040/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:32:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307705/posts Death Knell For Nuclear Power? August 03, 2009 Energy: A Senate vote to kill funding for the spent fuel repository in Nevada shows the Democratic Party and this administration aren't serious about energy independence, economic growth or environmental Killing the storage facility for the spent fuel rods produced by the nation's nuclear power industry has long been a dream of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama. Last week, the Senate granted their wish, voting to deny the resources needed to complete a review necessary for Yucca Mountain to open. "This is a major victory for Nevada," said Reid,... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307705/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:23:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307506/posts Energy: A Senate vote to kill funding for the spent fuel repository in Nevada shows the Democratic Party and this administration aren't serious about energy independence, economic growth or environmental protection.Killing the storage facility for the spent fuel rods produced by the nation's nuclear power industry has long been a dream of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama. Last week, the Senate granted their wish, voting to deny the resources needed to complete a review necessary for Yucca Mountain to open. "This is a major victory for Nevada," said Reid, who is up for re-election next year. "I... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307506/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:02:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302727/posts WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will not grant a $2 billion loan guarantee for a planned uranium-enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio, causing the initiative to go into financial meltdown, the company and independent sources confirmed last night. The U.S. Department of Energy's decision means "we are now forced to initiate steps to demobilize the project," said Elizabeth Stuckle, a spokeswoman for USEC. That's the company that is trying to build the $3.5 billion advanced-technology plant on the same site where it ran the Cold War-era uranium-enrichment facility that has been shuttered since 2001... "Instead of creating thousands of jobs across... The Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302727/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:17:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301231/posts August 26, 1945. Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Twenty four year old Harry Daghlian is working late, and alone. Both are violations of safety protocol, but Harry doesn’t care. He’s good at his job, and he’s careful. He doesn’t have to be working this late, six days ago the Japanese surrendered, and the war is over. But, that doesn’t mean his work isn’t still important. The bombs he helped build won the war, and he’s going to keep making them as long as he can. This night, Harry is working on placing the final tungsten bricks in a neutron... Brain Release Valve http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301231/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:40:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272556/posts Cambridge — An over-confident doe seen bounding through Harvard Square accidentally impaled itself while jumping over a wrought iron fence Tuesday morning. According to Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief Jack Gelinas, both police and fire responded to the front gate of an old historic church off Brattle Street around 7 a.m. after several calls from residents in the neighborhood. The fence the animal gored herself on encircles a historic Harvard Square cemetery known as The Old Cambridge Burying Ground next to Christ Church. The scene was not pretty, Gelinas said. GateHouse News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272556/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:24:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249209/posts Exactly what was Jimmy Carter’s biggest failure? Carter screwed us with the DoE, but there’s more. *Carter’s July 15, 1979 Malaise speech when he showed us he was out of hope and ideas and but full of self pity. *Giving away the Panama Canal or asking his 13 year old daughter for advice on nuclear warfare and being stupid enough to quote her. *What about the Department of Education? Bureaucrats referred to it as “E.D”, an abbreviation which has another meaning today, but might very well apply to the Department of Education as well. *Maybe it was the endless gas... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249209/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 13:47:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2245573/posts The GOP platform in 1996 stated: "The Federal government has no constitutional authority to be involved in school curricula or to control jobs in the market place. This is why we will abolish the Department of Education." President Bush let Ted Kennedy write his education bill and he outspent Bill Clinton. I wonder what happened to undoing Roe v. Wade...what happened to getting rid of AMTRAK? It seems to me that the GOP abandoned limited government during 8 years of George Bush and now with a full blown socialist like Obama...is Conservatism politically dead? In 1962, a Madison Square Garden... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2245573/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 20:26:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177761/posts Seven months after IBM delivered the world's fastest supercomputer, it has announced an even speedier one. IBM said on Tuesday it is developing the technology for its new Sequoia computer, with delivery scheduled in 2011 to the Department of Energy for use at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Sequoia will chug along at 20 petaflops per second and is one order of magnitude quicker than its predecessor. The earlier machine, delivered in June to the Energy Department, broke the 1 petaflop barrier. Peta is a term for quadrillion and FLOP stands for floating point operations per second. Sequoia, and a smaller... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177761/posts#comment Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:41:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153266/posts Federal inspectors said Monday they will ratchet up scrutiny of the San Onofre nuclear power plant after discovering that a battery meant to power safety systems had been inoperative for four years. Plant personnel discovered in March that bolts connecting an emergency battery to a circuit breaker were loose, a problem the Nuclear Regulatory Commission attributed to poor maintenance. The commission said that the twin-reactor plant near San Clemente, run by Rosemead-based Southern California Edison, remains safe, and that other backup batteries are functioning. But the commission expressed concern that the battery problem had gone unnoticed from 2004 to 2008.... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153266/posts#comment Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:53:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147628/posts So Steven Chu, President-elect Obama’s likely choice to head the Department of Energy, is a proponent of energy efficiency and conservation as the first step in rejigging America’s energy mix. But since conservation alone won’t do it, what are his ideas about finding new supplies of energy? Dr. Chu’s marquee work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is the Helios Project. ... Helios has focused largely on biofuels ... is looking to make second-generation biofuels more viable. ... What about other energy sources? Big Coal won’t be very happy if Dr. Chu gets confirmed as head of the DOE—he’s really,... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147628/posts#comment Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:49:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132578/posts Scientists angry after feds ax forest studyThe government wanted to see how forests responded to carbon dioxide. By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press Published on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 DURHAM — For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years. Some scientists believe they are on the cusp of receiving key results from the time-consuming experiments. The U.S. Department of Energy, however, which is funding the project, has told the scientists... Fay Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132578/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:59:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114024/posts Going down................ moneycentral.msn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114024/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:39:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081166/posts Governor Bob Riley has declared a state of emergency in Alabama, saying he has gotten information from the federal Department of Energy that energy shortages are likely because of Hurricane Ike. A state law that prohibits "unconscionable pricing" of items for sale or rent goes into effect when the governor has declared a state of emergency. Riley's declaration this afternoon says that "disruption of essential utility services, systems and severe energy shortages will likely occur." Earlier today, the governor's office issued a statement saying Riley had limited authority to declare an emergency. State law does not allow the governor to... Birmingham News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081166/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:20:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065764/posts No, even more so.Remember that nifty "Foreclosure prevention and relief" law that was sponsored by Sen. Chistopher Dodd, written by Bank of America and Countrywide Credit, and signed into law by the president recently? Remember how it carried a mandatory -- yet rather tangential -- provision for federal government monitoring of all automatic payment transactions? You probably thought, "hmm." And maybe then you thought, "why'd they do that?" And then, "well, they must know what they're doin'." But some of us thought, "OK, what are the pickpockets (with the full force of the federal government) up to now?" And some... Train of Thoughts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065764/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:52:58 GMT