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- From: tgray@igc.apc.org (Tom Gray)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: U.S. Renewable Research E
- Message-ID: <1466300107@igc.apc.org>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:20:00 GMT
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- Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!tgray Nov 18 09:20:00 1992
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- <responding to Chris Frey>
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- Thanks, but I will stick with "handouts" as an accurate description of the
- clean coal demo program. You're right, the technologies would diffuse
- more slowly without them, and the industry would be subject to greater
- risk. My thesis is that a mature energy industry like the coal industry is
- capable of shouldering these burdens on its own. The Reagan and Bush
- Administrations were very generous with rhetoric about letting the free
- market work in energy technology development, they just suffered amnesia
- when it came to this particular program.
-
- The same $2.5 billion, applied to carefully targeted handouts (see, I'm
- even-handed) for similar technology demonstrations of renewable energy
- systems, would have purchased far more bang for the buck. But the
- renewable energy industries are not mature, and contribute much less money
- to political campaigns.
-
- Tom
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