The USA Formal Science Lodge complimentary for national inspect and observations the 61-page lap up report, Cottage a Sustainable Initiative Later (NSB-09-35) and obtainable April 10, 2009.
The report contains a supply of information on USA energy science, technology, economics and policy by way of nearby summaries based on an elongated commendation list.
The national request for inspect and observations says:
"The recipe modify of the up to date extractive U.S. fossil fuel energy economy to a sustainable energy economy is a key horrible air previous to the Circumstances in this day and age."
"Transforming on the way to a sustainable energy economy requires publicly owned decree and synchronization, a new U.S. energy policy framework, and intense neighborliness for sustainable energy research, development, depiction, use, and education (RD3E). In its report, the Lodge makes a detail of recommendations to the U.S. Management and offers working out to the Formal Science Pillar."
"Arranged the respect to advocate publicly owned watch despondent collective U.S. energy evenhandedness, pay a visit to gullible stewardship and drop energy and carbon strength, and generate continued economic get to your feet despondent improvement in energy technologies and increases in green jobs, we goal that you command live this likelihood to vocalize your views on the lap up report."
"List observations by Friday, May 1, 2009, to Tami Tamashiro, Formal Secretary, Occupation Intimidate on Sustainable Initiative, at NSBenergy@nsf.gov. If you exercise any questions, intimacy Ms. Tamashiro at (703) 292-7000."
From the report:
U.S. Initiative Emerge (p. 9-10):
Today, 85 percent of the U.S. energy supply comes from the burn of fossil fuels (e.g., oil, natural gas, and coal), and nuclear electric power provides 8 percent. Sustainable energy sources derivative from water (hydroelectric), geothermal, wind, sun (solar), and biomass shabby for the outstanding 7 percent of the U.S. energy supply. Emotional advances and investment in the production, storage, and readership of U.S. sustainable energy sources are pleasing to go up the model of sustainable energy property.
U.S. Initiative Intake (p. 10):
U.S. energy consumption varies by economic sector and by energy source. Articulate one-third of energy delivered in the Join States is deceased by the methodological sector, and one-half of that is deceased by three industries (mass chemicals, petroleum enlightening, and authenticate products). The transportation sector accounts for the flash history slice of full end-use consumption at 29 percent, followed by the urbanized sector at 21 percent and the commercial sector at 18 percent.
With a leg on each side of all sectors, petroleum is the history energy source at express 40 percent, followed by natural gas (23 percent), coal (22 percent), nuclear electric power (8 percent), and renewable energy (7 percent). The transportation sector has historically deceased the utmost petroleum, with its petroleum consumption stunningly collective snooty the gone few decades. In 2007, petroleum accounted for 95 percent of the transportation sector's energy consumption.
Recommendation 2: Make R"> Clarify National investment in sustainable energy R
Decision vehicles and transportation technologies;
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Behavioral sciences as it relates to energy consumption;
Carbon defeat and sequestration;
Economic models and assessments similar to sustainable energy;
Initiative reserve technologies at all levels of generation, long-windedness, readership and consumption;
Initiative storage;
Information and communications technologies that can assist store energy and/or use it superfluous industriously, such as broadband cyberinfrastructure;
Renewable energy supply technologies (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal,
hydroelectric, biomass/biofuels, kinetic, tidal, wave, marine thermal technologies);
Brainy grid;
"Systems" approach to large-scale sustainability solutions, and sated life-cycle analyses of energy systems (e.g., director fossil-fuel technologies andbiomass-derived fuels); and
Zero-energy buildings.
Recommendation 3: Aid Chief Policies (p. 17):
Guide acquire policies that allow recover, development, use, and
commercialization of sustainable energy technologies to flash advances in forthright and viable
research
o Win the sensational and unspoken subsidies of up to date energy sources that annoyed conversion to the use of sustainable energy sources, and productively care to impress research-based strategies that aid upper make public use of sustainable energy technologies.
Taciturn (p. 22):
This report marks a concerted belabor by the Lodge to bond with social group and stakeholders roundabouts the National, private, educational, and nonprofit sectors to residence the challenges and opportunities for sustainable energy in the 21st century. The recommendations made herein to the U.S. Management crusade to advocate decree of synchronized efforts in brawny on the way to a sustainable energy economy. In addition, the Lodge offers working out for NSF that aims to prioritize improvement in sustainable energy, by supporting sustainable energy RD3E that leads to the development and use of on the cards sustainable energy technologies. In addition to strength and revitalized purpose, the Join States is positioned to delightedly extend and neighborliness a sustainable energy greatly.
Rider A: History and Context of Sustainable Initiative (p.25-44):
Provides absorbing altitude on the topics down in the dumps numb Recommendation 2 aloof, the up to date state of USA energy supply and consumption, and a USA lawmaking timeline from Leader Truman's signing of the Infinitesimal Initiative Act (McMahon Act) in 1946 to Leader Obama's signing of the American Upsurge and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
