Obama says winner of clean-energy race will lead global economy -- latimes.com »
Posted By gamahuche 1 month, 1 week ago in NewsOver the next three years, Americans will be required to replace nearly all their traditional light bulbs with cooler, more energy-efficient bulbs under a 2007 bill signed by President Bush.
But almost all of the 100 production lines needed to churn out new bulbs are expected to be built overseas. Similar scenarios are likely to play out for wind turbines, solar cells and other parts of the emerging global market for clean energy.
That's the gloomy prospect faced by federal officials and business leaders alike as they confront the twin challenges of combating climate change and trying to keep the U.S. competitive in the multitrillion-dollar race to develop and sell new energy systems.
President Obama emphasized the opportunities -- and acknowledged the challenges -- in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston on Friday.
"From China to India, from Japan to Germany, nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways to producing and use energy," he said. "The nation that wins this competition will be the nation that leads the global economy. I am convinced of that. And I want America to be that nation."
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gamahuche1 month, 1 week ago
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FTA:
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"From China to India, from Japan to Germany, nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways to producing and use energy," he said. "The nation that wins this competition will be the nation that leads the global economy. I am convinced of that. And I want America to be that nation."
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Will the naysayers be negative enough to cut off their noses to spite their faces and thereby condemn the US to becoming a failed state?-
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gamahuche1 month, 1 week ago
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Let me change the last few words above to: and thereby RISK the US to becoming a failed state?
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[I'd hate to believe that really the negative thinkers WOULD or even COULD achieve such a result - though I do see that possibility. Going wildly astray by getting indefinitely bogged-down in Afghanistan wouldn't help either..] -
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Endoscopy1 month, 1 week ago
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The obscene one does not think. The super expensive methods that will stop the CO2 in this country will cripple the economy. We will be forced into cars that we do not want. Business will have to take major hits in order to comply. All this is money out the window and everybody will have to curtail what they do. Why does the libs never look at what the results will be. Those that lead the way will end up the poorest.
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Keep in mind that the MYTH of GLOBAL WARMING has been busted. 1998 was the peak year for the average temperature. Since then it has been flat or lower. Only the die hard Goreabites still cling to the idea.
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onlyonesecret1 month, 1 week ago
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Sounds good, but it's all a scam. Free energy has been in existence since at least the time of Nikola Tesla and has been denied to the general public for almost a century. This is an utter fabrication designed to preserve a global hierarchy of control and profiteering.
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Endoscopy1 month, 1 week ago
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When you read about him you ignored some facts. His shows that he put on have never been able to be repeated by anybody. All of his papers went to Russia his native land. A lot of things he did are really unknown and only guess at. He hid things and much of what he did has never been found.
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jordan111 month, 1 week ago
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http://fuelandfiber.com/Hemp4NRG/Hemp4NRGRV3.htm
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Yep. Hemp works.
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orndorffter1 month, 1 week ago
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Years ago they did not have this problem, but as years went by men wanted much better energy and they found away to drill for water and run lines for it, heat they also did the same way lights were simple, all they had to do was light a candle or oil lamp. cook on a wood burnner.
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It was easy then now you have the high cost of living and everything is right at your fingertips. They used windmill back then and our lifes had to be easier for us so they came up with all this new stuff, micowaves, gas heat, we never had to pay for water because it was free and had wells to draw our water up.
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lloydm651 month, 1 week ago
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Why do we argue about it Obamas kool aid slurpers aren't listening ,The messiah has already hocked this country to G E so we might as get your fire wood in,and your candles set up. Cap & steal is needed for taxes pure, and simple .By the way when do we start getting our government water ration stamps.I can't believe their going to let keep our non federal water works.
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Icantwait1 month ago
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My Fellow Americans: It is quite simple to solve this energy problem. The Secret Word is ("Drill") for oil. We have a ton of new locations, which have a tremendous amount of oil. One recently just discovered in Utah has a larger reserve than that of even Saudi Arabia.
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It is time we removed the Environment Protection Agency and started, once again, producing our own oil fields. We don't need foreign oil because we have plenty.
O is crazy if he thinks he can produce alternative energy sources that will accommodate our rapidly expanding population. No thanks to the Immigration Problem and to make matter worse we are importing immigrants from around the world at record breaking numbers. Politicians get paid to have Immigrants shipped into our country at so much a head.
Back to energy, Solar is not very viable on a large scale, why it does not even help to heat water to a boiling temperature.
It's energy can not be store for any major resource level. Wind is another Pink Elephant, impractical and only useful on a small scale. This energy can't be sufficiently stored. A battery the size of Massachusetts would be required to light the City of Boston for a day or two. So, who is O fooling, none other than the gullible, Radical Damocrats.
As for Cooler Light like fluorescent lighting? They contain cathodes which produced ultra violet radiation. Bad for the eyes, the skin, cause depletion of vitamins and minerals, cause cancer, and create improper color rendition of the environment in which they are occupying.
It's Oil Baby, pure and simple, it's Oil. Let us work on the alternatives after we stabilize our own reserves. The Real American-
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alakazam1 month ago
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"My Fellow Americans: It is quite simple to solve this energy problem. The Secret Word is ("Drill") for oil. We have a ton of new locations, which have a tremendous amount of oil. One recently just discovered in Utah has a larger reserve than that of even Saudi Arabia."
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Knowing the damage that burning petrochemicals does to the environment you would suppress cleaner technologies just to make a buck?
You know what?
You don't even begin to sound like an American...
Battery the size of Massachusetts ???? You know they surpassed That Tech a few decades ago.
Contains Cathodes???
WHAT!!!!!
CATHODES!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode
I call Bantha Poodoo on you three times
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lrobertsonbooks1 month ago
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The architectural marvel of the 21st Century will be the Space Elevator. Whoever builds the first commercially viable Space Elevator will sit in the Cat Bird's Seat at the turn into the 22nd Century. Honda has announced a new process for making and handling nano-tube carbon fiber which has the strength (200 times that of steel) to make such an elevator possible. Right now, the Japanese have the advantage.
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At the same time, an international consortium will endeavors to have the first commercial fusion reactor on-line by 2016-18 while Burt Rutan opens commercial Space Travel in little more than year.
All this means the most technologically competent nation will call the shots. If American means to be that nation, it needs to get it's rear into high gear. -
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Natureboy1 month ago
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"From China to India, from Japan to Germany, nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways to producing and use energy," he said. "The nation that wins this competition will be the nation that leads the global economy. I am convinced of that. And I want America to be that nation."
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Crap.
Finding new ways to meet our needs, yes. Being at the forefront of production and consumption is still being part of the problem.
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ANNEE1 month ago
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The winner of the clean energy race will lead the global economy ONLY if it is practical and affordable. I have just ripped out all the compact fluorescent bulbs I had put in, and replaced them with incandescents. They gave me a headache and bothered my eyes.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 month ago
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LEDs are superior, extremely efficient.
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Florescent have come a long long way, the newest versions are practically indistinguishable from incandescent. And I am sensitive to older fluorescents too.
There is little doubt Obama is dead right about investing in our future. Many of the problems we face today are a result of backwards thinking and lack of investment in the future.
I don't know if America can wait for the crop of those who fight to preserve the hierarchies, institutions, and aristocracies of the past to die off. Those bent on living in an unsustainable manner will find the same outcome as our unsustainable economic model just experienced. It too is propped up artificially with no real fundamental repairs accomplished. Without change, without engaging people in meaningful work, the whole system is preposterous. If private industry won't invest in America, then the federal government should. And we the people, should be sole beneficiaries of profits from these new technologies...keep the naysayer corporate oligarchs from EVER making a dime off OUR investment.
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