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edge540 wrote:
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I wish there was a way to regulate Dumbo spending our tax dollars...
Yeah, that's brilliant.
Still haven't figured out that
congress spends the money and not the president...eh?
No dumbass, it's the Energy Department.
Did you whine when it was done during the Bush Administration?
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DOE Awards $168 M in Solar America Initiative Funding
March 8, 2007
Lowell, Massachusetts [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced today that thirteen industry-led solar technology projects will receive up to $168 million in funding -- subject to appropriation from Congress -- as part of President Bush's Solar America Initiative (SAI), which is a component of the Advanced Energy Initiative (AEI).
The teams selected to receive the funding have formed Technology Pathway Partnerships (TPP) made up of more than 50 companies, 14 universities, three nonprofit organizations and two national laboratories.
Now read slowly genius so it sinks in:
Congress appropriates the money to the Energy Department.
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Energy Department Awards Funding for Concentrating Solar Power
June 20, 2012
The Energy Department announced on June 13 its new investments in 21 projects designed to further advance cutting-edge concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. The $56 million in awards span three years, subject to congressional appropriations, and cover 13 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Washington. As part of the planned three-year initiative, Congress appropriated an initial $16.3 million in fiscal year 2011. The Energy Department plans to made additional requests totaling $39.7 million in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 to support these CSP projects.
The research projects—conducted in partnership with private industry, national laboratories, and universities—support the Energy Department's SunShot Initiative, a collaborative national effort to make solar power cost-competitive with traditional energy sources by the end of the decade. For example, DOE's Sandia National Laboratories will develop a falling particle receiver and heat exchanger system to increase efficiency and lower costs.
The awards will help speed innovations in new components to lower costs, increase operating temperatures, and improve the efficiency of CSP systems. The 3-year applied research projects will focus on achieving dramatic improvements in CSP performance while driving progress toward the SunShot goal of 75% cost reduction. CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight to produce heat, which is then used to produce electricity. CSP systems are distinguished from other solar energy technologies by their ability to store energy as heat so that consumer demand can be met even when the sun is not shining, including during the night. See the DOE press release, the complete list of awards, and the .
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