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Technology Vision
- Achieve energy intensity reduction
- Generation of carbon free and emissions-trapped electrical power and
hydrogen
- Look toward electrical power and hydrogen as the primary energy
carriers
- Optimize indirect sequestration potential
- All this while meeting future energy needs
Technology Principals
- Solutions should be globally adaptable and integrated
- Economics of the hydrocarbon energy structure should be accounted
for
- Resource availability (lots of decades)
- Stable constant $ production cost in the near term (few decades)
- Delivery and use infrastructure
- Producer and consumer dependencies
- Historical analogues should be acknowledged
- Economic impact
- Conservation and fuel switching
- Consumer reaction to transportation alternatives
- Relative priority for GHG emissions vs other environmental
objectives needs to be clarified for full adoption of many technologies
- Business engagement will be required for development and adoption
Summary of Changes in the Technology Program
- Presidential direction and executive level involvement
- Interagency integration
- Integration with other climate change functions -- Science, Voluntary
Programs, International
- All of DOE's energy and science portfolio included
- Major new involvement by Agriculture
- Ability to reduce GHG emissions established as a top tier R&D
investment criteria
- Economic and performance goals revised to compete with hydrocarbon
alternatives
- Hydrogen, emissions sequestration, and nuclear receiving increased
focus
- Sustained effort on other technology fronts
- Business and international partnerships
Summary
- The Administration has an active executive-level integration
function for its climate change approach
- The technology challenge is daunting with significant institutional
and economic considerations -- but --
- We possess the basic building blocks today and success can be
achieved
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