Comments on: Stanford starts new, $100 million energy institute http://www.greenbang.com/stanford-starts-new-100-million-energy-institute_7089.html Sustainable Energy Insight Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roland Clarke http://www.greenbang.com/stanford-starts-new-100-million-energy-institute_7089.html/comment-page-1#comment-6786 Roland Clarke Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:31:58 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=7089#comment-6786 John, I'm sorry to say that you are misinformed. Many ideas have been floated in the past as rapid solutions that in fact have needed much more development and much more research to become economically viable. This has led to the unfortunate impression among the public that these pathways have been "squashed". It is extremely important that careful, thoughtful statements be made regarding the current state of energy research and technology so that this perception does not continue to propagate. In fact, one may blame the communication pathways from scientists to the general public and to the politicians. If more resources are devoted to this critical pathway, we will be much closer to everyone's goal of clean efficient solutions brought to market.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('6786','Roland Clarke'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('6786','Roland Clarke','John, I\'m sorry to say that you are misinformed. Many ideas have been floated in the past as rapid solutions that in fact have needed much more development and much more research to become economically viable. This has led to the unfortunate impression among the public that these pathways have been \"squashed\". It is extremely important that careful, thoughtful statements be made regarding the current state of energy research and technology so that this perception does not continue to propagate. In fact, one may blame the communication pathways from scientists to the general public and to the politicians. If more resources are devoted to this critical pathway, we will be much closer to everyone\'s goal of clean efficient solutions brought to market.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> John, I’m sorry to say that you are misinformed. Many ideas have been floated in the past as rapid solutions that in fact have needed much more development and much more research to become economically viable. This has led to the unfortunate impression among the public that these pathways have been “squashed”. It is extremely important that careful, thoughtful statements be made regarding the current state of energy research and technology so that this perception does not continue to propagate. In fact, one may blame the communication pathways from scientists to the general public and to the politicians. If more resources are devoted to this critical pathway, we will be much closer to everyone’s goal of clean efficient solutions brought to market.
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]]> By: John Cockerill http://www.greenbang.com/stanford-starts-new-100-million-energy-institute_7089.html/comment-page-1#comment-6642 John Cockerill Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:32:13 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=7089#comment-6642 When are researchers going to fiqure out many answers exist now, yet have been put asside due to political agenda. The answer is always to through the money at folks who are off the subject. Good research looks at what works now. The recent efforts in the last several years is to tie up the problem with sham research and closed minds.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('6642','John Cockerill'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('6642','John Cockerill','When are researchers going to fiqure out many answers exist now, yet have been put asside due to political agenda. The answer is always to through the money at folks who are off the subject. Good research looks at what works now. The recent efforts in the last several years is to tie up the problem with sham research and closed minds.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> When are researchers going to fiqure out many answers exist now, yet have been put asside due to political agenda. The answer is always to through the money at folks who are off the subject. Good research looks at what works now. The recent efforts in the last several years is to tie up the problem with sham research and closed minds.
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