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The hope is that by seeking novel technologies, like turning a bottle of water into an energy storage device , the U.S. can recapture the lead in the "green revolution" underway in the multi-trillion dollar global energy market.
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After all, European companies dominate renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines or solar thermal power plants . And China is leapfrogging ahead to produce cheap photovoltaic solar cells .
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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - 0 views

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Year After Copenhagen, California Shows the Green Revolution I... - 0 views

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ey spent scores of millions trying to convince Californians that a vote for the environment was a vote against jobs, that a clean energy future would just be too costly. Of course, they cared little about jobs and more about fattening their wallets by peddling dirty energy.
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Californians were aware that green technology is the only area of our economy creating new jobs right now -- 10 times more jobs since 2005 than any other sector.
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hey know that 19,000 people are dying in California alone because of smog-related illness, costing many millions in health care.
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Oslo, Norway, they have reduced energy consumption by 70 percent simply by using an innovative and energy-efficient form of streetlights without an international agreement. The African region of Okavango planted 300,000 acres of trees, which will sequester 30 million tons of carbon dioxide. The state of South Australia is on track to generate 33 percent of its power from renewable sources by the year 2020. Across its various regions, China is investing billions of dollars in electric and hybrid vehicles. South Africa is developing a solar project that, when complete, will provide one-eighth of all of the energy of the entire country. Twenty-nine of New York City's universities and hospitals have accepted Mayor Bloomberg's challenge to reduce their emissions by 30 percent within the next few years.
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orld's largest solar plant and the world's largest wind farm, providing enough energy to power 740,000 homes. We have already approved solar plants that will provide 4,000 megawatts of energy.
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goal of generating 33 percent of our energy from renewables by the year 2020.
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California is now 40 percent more energy efficient per capita than the rest of the United States. More than one-third of the world's clean-tech venture capital flows right here out of our state. We lead the nation in clean energy patents and clean energy businesses.
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Wind energy and solar power subsidies face uncertainty - Nov. 18, 2010 - 0 views

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That's because the government cash it has come to rely on may dry up on Dec. 31.
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So far, the government has handed out about $5.4 billion, according to the Energy Department.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner
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did say that Republicans support all forms of energy development, including renewables and nuclear power, provided that any money for them comes from expanded domestic oil and gas drilling, a prospect that looks dim.There's another piece of legislation that could provide support for the renewable industry besides the cash grant -- a mandate that would require utilities to buy a certain percent of their power from renewable energy.
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Teryn Norris: How Energy Reform Can Break the Partisan Stalemate - 0 views

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President Obama
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"I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks that we've got an energy policy that works the way it needs to, that thinks that we shouldn't be working on energy independence,
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Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) quickly agreed. "I think energy is an area where there is potential for a bipartisan accomplishment of some consequence,"
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Nobody thinks it is a bad idea to reduce carbon emissions, the question is how do you do it."
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The Brookings/AEI/Breakthrough report
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The heart of the plan is to overhaul the U.S. energy innovation system with strategic federal investments in clean energy, on the scale of $25 billion annually,
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