The lab’s fitful history reflects a basic truth: Despite a lot of promises, no one so far has wanted to pay the extra costsTHIS CRIPPLING OF LIFE's PROMISE & FUTURE STEMS FROM THE "TROUBLE WITH PHYSICS" AND TOP SECRECY IN SCIENCE IN FREEDUMB LAND. With science (and teachers) not getting the attention of Super Bowl footsybally, continuation of this trend has the potential to destroy all human life. Expanding the idea, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH PROFIT?" reveals a prehistoric economic/corporate profit model totally disconnected from LIFE and required evolutionary SURVIVAL parameters - scientific principles notoriously missing in science and education. CONNECT PROFIT WITH LIFE & EVOLUTIONARY SURVIVAL parameters, and profit becomes as beautiful and natural as the sunrise.
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
GOLDEN, Colo. — Thirty years after it was founded by President Jimmy Carter, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the edge of the Rockies here still does not have a cafeteria.
Evaporation chambers for new solar energy systems look like they belong in an H. G. Wells movie. Technicians had to knock out a giant door from a testing facility to fit modern wind turbine blades, which now stick out like a bare toe from an old sock.
The hopes for this neglected lab brightened a bit just over a year ago when President Bush made the first presidential call on the lab since Mr. Carter and spelled out a vision for the not-too-distant future in which solar and wind power would help run every American home and cars would operate on biofuels made from residues of plants.
But one year after the president’s visit, the money flowing into the nation’s primary laboratory for developing renewable fuels is actually less ...full text
January 25, 2007 NYT - The Energy Challenge
Energy Research on a Shoestring
Energy Research on a Shoestring
By CLIFFORD KRAUSSGOLDEN, Colo. — Thirty years after it was founded by President Jimmy Carter, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the edge of the Rockies here still does not have a cafeteria.
Evaporation chambers for new solar energy systems look like they belong in an H. G. Wells movie. Technicians had to knock out a giant door from a testing facility to fit modern wind turbine blades, which now stick out like a bare toe from an old sock.
The hopes for this neglected lab brightened a bit just over a year ago when President Bush made the first presidential call on the lab since Mr. Carter and spelled out a vision for the not-too-distant future in which solar and wind power would help run every American home and cars would operate on biofuels made from residues of plants.
But one year after the president’s visit, the money flowing into the nation’s primary laboratory for developing renewable fuels is actually less ...full text
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