Barack Obama: Clean energy technologies ‘aren’t science fiction anymore’

[Fledermaus]

President Barack Obama used his weekly address to the nation Saturday to promote the administration’s energy security strategy and its goal of reducing the country’s dependence on foreign oil.

“Drilling alone is not a real strategy to replace our dependence on foreign oil,” Obama said from a UPS facility in Landover, Md., where he and several Cabinet officials visited Friday to highlight an energy efficiency program. “Even if we used every last drop of all the oil we have, it wouldn’t be enough to meet our long-term energy needs. So, real energy security can only come if we find ways to use less oil — if we invest in cleaner fuels and greater efficiency.”



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[AndyTiedye]

1. No Mention At All of Nuclear This Time. Good.

[PamW]

2. Obama had the Dept of Energy...

Obama just had the Dept of Energy reiterate his policy on nukes:

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/30/obama-still-wants-nukes/

PamW

[AndyTiedye]

3. That Was Several Days Ago

The tone of this seems quite different.

[PamW]

5. I didn't know that 3 days was considered several days

That Was Several Days Ago
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I didn't know that 3 days was considered several days

PamW

[Targeted Individual]

7. 1984

They called 1984 science fiction. Watch a Pre-January 8th copy of Inception. Listen closely when the actors say imagine, reality, and safe, or point pistols. You'll hear the words, Loughner, offin' her, part of the word Giffords, and much more. Some say they hear, do it.

[Strelnikov_]

8. Fuck yea!!!!

Now this is what I'm talkin' about!!!!

Some first class conspiracy theory.

[XemaSab]

4. I have no interest

in anything Obama has to say about energy.

[lfairban]

6. Does this sound like, "Drill, baby drill"?

"In his speech, Obama trotted out Interior Department statistics showing that 39 shallow water permits and seven deepwater permits have been approved since the BP oil spill, while onshore permits are moving ahead at a brisk pace, too.

"Any claim that my administration is responsible for gas prices because we’ve 'shut down' oil production, any claim like that is simply untrue," he said. "It might make for a useful political sound bite — but it doesn’t track with reality."



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[abqmufc]

9. But is science fiction to claim coal is "clean"....burying CO2 under ground is not a technology.

But rather it is how a child cleans up his mess. Instead of actually cleaning it, they bury all the mess under the bed, in the closet, and in every corner until all hiding spots are filled. Once filled all the mess ends up right back onto the bedroom floor. That is how I see carbon capture working, hide it till we can't hide it anymore and then watch out b/c it will come back and we will have to deal with it again.

[Nihil]

11. Yep, you are exactly right - that's the politician's "solution" to a problem:

Delay, obfuscate, procrastinate, cash-in the bribes "campaign funds"
and drop out of the spotlight before the sh*t hits the fan.

:grr:

[abqmufc]

10. The Administration's plan

I sat on CAAAC from 2004 - 2010. The blueprint was drafted in 2006 under the Clean Coal workgroup and the Air Quality Management (AQM) workgroup. Both workgroups published reports on their findings and those have been used by EPA as a blueprint for action. The plan has always been for clean coal technology as it directly benefits the President's home state of IL. IL can mine dirty coal with CCS online. It was also serving on CAAAC that I first was introduced to Koch Industries, as they hold a seat on CAAAC.


The (U.S. EPA) Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) in September 2006 charged the Advanced Coal Technology Work Group to discuss and identify the potential barriers and opportunities to create incentives under the Clean Air Act for the research, development, demonstration and deployment of advanced coal technologies (ACTs), including carbon capture and sequestration. During the course of the year, the group agreed to go beyond the limits of its charter and to discuss mechanisms that might be engaged to advance deployment of ACTs outside of the existing Clean Air Act.

On January 29, 2008 the work group completed its Final Report, which presents thirteen succinct, consensus-based recommendations that can be undertaken by various stakeholders to accelerate the development and use of ACTs.

http://www.epa.gov/oar/caaac/coaltech.html

CAAAC AQM subcommittee
http://www.epa.gov/air/caaac/aqm.html

If want to know what the plan is for energy pay attention to the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and the Clean Air Act Scientific Advisory Committee. What they talk about today is tomorrow's policy.