http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:13:49 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification by Eli Kintisch The $150 million Clean Energy Research Center that the two superpowers agreed to fund this week represents no less than a revolution in the way the two countries think about joint research. There's plenty of warranted skepticism... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/how-the-chinaus.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/how-the-chinaus.html Asia Energy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:13:49 -0500 Paul Alivisatos has been named director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Experts told a congressional panel today that the United States is losing its lead in spaceflight. The Senate Energy Committee will explore the economics of the climate... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1119-wo.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1119-wo.html Energy Environment/Climate Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:10:51 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Activists in polar bear suits or protesters standing outside of coal plants might get the public message on climate change across, but might there be more personal choices that activists can make to convey their point? Say,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/the-new-carbon.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/the-new-carbon.html Energy Environment/Climate Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:53:33 -0500 by Richard Kerr and Jeff Mervis It was certainly striking in the telling. But the truth is another story. Speaking to business leaders at a White House event last week on clean energy and the economy, Secretary of Energy Steven... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/chus-tall-tale.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/chus-tall-tale.html Energy Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:20:13 -0500 Less than 2 years ago, Princeton agriculture expert Tim Searchinger published a paper in Science that sought to quantify how growing biofuels on cropland in the United States could lead to deforestation abroad. He estimated in some cases that... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sheehan-searchi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sheehan-searchi.html Energy Environment/Climate Top Story Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:57:23 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Dan Reicher, former assistant U.S. secretary of energy and now director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google, testified yesterday as part of the Senate climate hearings and mentioned an innovative tool Google recently announced:... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/can-you-unleash.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/can-you-unleash.html Energy Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:07:00 -0500 By Eli Kintisch On Monday, the Department of Energy announced $151 million in grants for ARPA-E, its pie-in-the-sky, high-risk energy research program. Thirty-seven grantees got funded, and Energy Secretary Steve Chu said that the program would serve as a "bold,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/arpae-three-ans.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/arpae-three-ans.html Energy arpa-e energy research Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:19:33 -0500 by Erik Stokstad President Barack Obama didn't launch any new initiatives in his visit today to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he highlighted clean energy technology and the need for climate change legislation. But he did wonder if... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1023-th.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1023-th.html Biomedicine Energy Environment/Climate Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:07:28 -0500 by Jeffrey Mervis and Adrian Cho Watch out, Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the U.S. is not quitting the race to find the famed Higgs boson just yet. If all goes as planned, physicists at the last dedicated U.S. particle physics laboratory... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/its-on-god-part.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/its-on-god-part.html Energy Physics Top Story fermilab higgs LHC Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:16:28 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Results are out today from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's yearly report card of states' energy-efficiency policies. No surprise: California leads the way, same as last year. Overall, states are adopting better standards; the average... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/it-takes-energy.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/it-takes-energy.html Energy Top Story energy efficiency Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:18:09 -0500 by Jeffrey Mervis The nominees to head the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the Department of Energy breezed through their joint Senate confirmation hearing this morning. But the 1-hour hearing gave Marcia... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/congress-goes-e.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/congress-goes-e.html Energy Physical Science White House Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:41:44 -0500 by Eli Kintisch The U.S. Congress is giving Energy Secretary Steven Chu enough money to launch three of his beloved Bell Labs—fewer than half of his request. In his proposed budget for 2010, Chu wanted $480 million to start eight... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/congress-dubs-h.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/congress-dubs-h.html Energy Top Story Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:25:24 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Last week, the White House nominated Arun Majumdar to lead ARPA-E, the risk-taking blue-sky energy research shop at the Department of Energy. Majumdar is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a materials scientist at... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/meet-obamas-hea.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/meet-obamas-hea.html Energy White House Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:12:28 -0500 http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/3-answers-and-3.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/3-answers-and-3.html Energy Environment/Climate Top Story White House Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:58:04 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Pacific Gas and Electric Chair Peter Darbee has written the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to say that his company will leave the powerful business lobby. "In particular, he took the Chamber to task for its recent demand... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/power-company-a.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/power-company-a.html Energy Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:08:00 -0500