http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:07:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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 By Jocelyn Kaiser A group of senior scientists today called for an ambitious new U.S. biology research initiative that would tackle broad challenges involving food, energy, the environment, and health. The proposal could cost at least $2 billion a year... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/panel-calls-for.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/panel-calls-for.html Biomedicine Energy Environment/Climate Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:30:03 -0500 If the most important concerns for property are location, location, location, the top issues for energy are scale, scale, scale. The United States has a vast demand for energy—85% of it satisfied by fossil fuels, posing risks for the environment,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/america-needs-l.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/america-needs-l.html Energy Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:48:09 -0500 Thirty-four U.S. Nobel Laureates today called on President Barack Obama to push for a steady funding mechanism in upcoming climate legislation to support clean energy research. Many billions of dollars are already flowing from stimulus funding, they note in a... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/nobelists-plead.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/nobelists-plead.html Energy Physical Science Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:44:23 -0500 Late last week, Congress summarily slapped down the Department of Energy's biggest new research initiative: A plan for eight new research "hubs" aimed at solving the nation's energy problems. DOE had requested a total of $280 million for these interdisciplinary... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/hill-blocks-doe.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/hill-blocks-doe.html Budget Energy Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:10:45 -0500 Congressional spending panels are taking nicks and cuts out of the 2010 budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE). So far, the department's bread and butter, lab-based research programs are doing well, while some of the initiatives and redirections... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/congress-backs.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/congress-backs.html Budget Energy Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:01:48 -0500