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- From: hf09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Henry Christopher Frey)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: U.S. Renewable Research E
- Message-ID: <0f1w7xm00iV2Q2J79n@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 05:45:01 GMT
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- Organization: Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- >From: tgray@igc.apc.org (Tom Gray)
- >Subject: Re: U.S. Renewable Research E
- >Date: 15 Nov 92 01:58:00 GMT
- >
- >(Also, _Nuclear Canada_ omitted the clean coal technology
- >demonstration program, which inhaled another $2-3 billion during
- >the last few years, presumably because it was not research, but
- >just handouts.)
-
- The clean coal technology program is, strictly speaking, a
- *demonstration* program. It's purpose is to build first-of-a-kind
- commercial scale systems to demonstrate the performance and economics of
- advanced efficient power generation and environmental control
- technologies. It is also a cost-sharing program. The U.S. government
- is contributing around $2.5 billion. Other co-funders (e.g., industry,
- state governments) are contributing more than that amount. Without this
- program, the development and diffusion of these new technologies would
- be much slower or nonexistant. Basically, it is a risk-sharing program
- with policy objectives of increasing energy efficiency, reducing
- environmental impacts, and improving energy security.
-
- It is fair to say that the clean coal program is not research in a
- strict sense, but that does not mean it is a handout (as if those are
- the only two options).
-
- Chris Frey
-