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In reply to the discussion: Carbon-Free Energy Is Possible -- Without Nukes [View all]bananas
(27,509 posts)4. "Our report became the basis of President Carter's energy policy."
Since Dr. Makhijani was the principal author of the first comprehensive review of US energy efficiency in 1971, I asked him, "Where did we make progress in the past 40 years, and where do we still need to act?"
So that's good progress. We'd be in even better shape if the U.S. hadn't dropped the ball on energy policy in the 1980s. Since Carter, we haven't had a coherent overall energy policy, so we tend to scatter limited resources on bits and pieces.
I was a staff member of the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation during the 1973 energy crisis. Our report became the basis of President Carter's energy policy. Today we use less than half of the energy we thought we'd use by now: energy use has not grown much, but the economy is 2-3 times bigger.
So that's good progress. We'd be in even better shape if the U.S. hadn't dropped the ball on energy policy in the 1980s. Since Carter, we haven't had a coherent overall energy policy, so we tend to scatter limited resources on bits and pieces.
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I believe things are different today; take the of evaluation of the CEO of NRG
kristopher
Dec 2013
#5
No, I'm saying you aren't a scientist because you falsely report the results of research and data.
kristopher
Dec 2013
#19
PamW you're always throwing around all this about how you're a scientist and all
madokie
Dec 2013
#27
Cost-minimized combinations renewables powering the grid up to 99.9% of the time
kristopher
Dec 2013
#35