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SPECIAL ISSUE: Spotlight on New American Energy Sources
Breakthrough Blog's week-long Special Issue puts the spotlight on potential new American energy sources. By plugging into new, clean energy sources we can re-charge our economy, secure our energy future and win true energy freedom. Transforming our nation's energy system, however, will not occur overnight. It will require innovation, investment, and a generational effort. Let us explore the developing technologies that will make this possible.
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Buddhism, Nihilism, and Deep Ecology
Lindsay Meisel argues for a Buddhist approach to technology -- one that is at odds with deep ecology.
"When environmentalists urge us to follow nature's way, they are referring to a mythical nature that never changes, that is necessarily always in balance; that is the root of all things good. But this conception of nature is nostalgia masquerading as values."
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Breakthrough Responds to Gore Speech
In a landmark speech this week Al Gore called for the U.S. to produce all its electricity from renewable sources in 10 years. But a cursory look at the state of renewables today suggests a much longer road to a clean energy economy. Breakthrough believes it can be done if we're honest about the immensity of the challenge.
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Slow, Dirty, and Expensive
From the Department of Obscure But Telling Anectdotes, Breakthrough Generation Fellow Adam Rodriques presents you with the cases of the Zheleznogorsk and Seversk. These represent a case study of why we need to approach any sort of large-scale problem holistically: as we have seen repeatedly, if we act myopically, we rarely (if ever) end up making things any better in the long run.
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The U.S. Can Become A World Leader in Solar Power
Energy experts in Europe predict that the U.S. can recapture its lost leadership position as the world's leader in solar manufacturing and development, but only if government investment continues. What we need, what we must demand, is investment to give American innovators the tools they need.
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Research, Develop, Deploy and Repeat
The New York Times' Andy Revkin debates Joe Romm who claims the time for R&D has passed. But as Revkin knows, any push to transition to a clean energy future must put money across the board into Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment.
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