-- Federal Energy and Carbon Sequestration Programs. FY '04 budget requestOriginally posted by Shaolinlueb
I don't want to get into a political debate. but bush tends to do things that benefit him and his friends and basically say screw the people. i thought the president was suppossed to help the people, not just his friends and the rich? poverty is a growing problem in the usa, that sint being resolved with this guy like it was when clinton was in office. i drive a honda low emissions vehicle, honda was voted the cleanest car company in the world. im jsut saying he has a job to do as president, and he should think about others before himself which he doesnt seem to do from the stuff i have seen and read. he doesnt even do his job good.
includes $1.7 billion to fund Federal technology research, development,
and deployment activities. Major new initiatives for FY '04 and beyond
include:
-- Hydrogen Energy. President Bush launched his Hydrogen Fuel Initiative
in this year's State of the Union address. The goal is to work closely
with the private sector to accelerate our transition to a hydrogen
economy, both on the technology of hydrogen fuel cells and a fueling
infrastructure. The President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative and the
FreedomCAR Partnership launched last year will provide $1.7 billion over
the next 5 years to develop hydrogen-powered fuel cells, a hydrogen
infrastructure, and advanced automobile technologies, allowing for
commercialization by 2020. The United States will pursue international
cooperation to affect a more rapid, coordinated advance for this
technology that could lead to the reduction of air pollutants and a
significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation
sector worldwide. For more information on this initiative, please visit
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/hydrogen-fuels.html.
-- "FutureGen" -- Coal-Fired, Zero-Emissions Electricity Generation. In
February 2003, President Bush announced that the United States would
sponsor, with international and private-sector partners, a $1 billion,
10-year demonstration project to create the world's first coal-based,
zero-emissions electricity and hydrogen power plant. This project is
designed to dramatically reduce air pollution and capture and store
greenhouse gas emissions. This initiative is part of an international
Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, chaired by the Secretary of Energy,
to work cooperatively with our global partners--including developing
countries--on research, development and deployment of carbon sequestration
technologies in the next decade. In June 2003, the inaugural Forum meeting
was held in Virginia, and attended by representatives of Australia,
Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway,
Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the European Commission. These
global partners signed the first international charter setting the
framework for international cooperation in research and development. For
more information, please visit
http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/powersystems/futuregen/.
-- Fusion Energy. In January 2003, President Bush committed the United
States to participate in the largest and most technologically
sophisticated research project in the world to harness the promise of
fusion energy, the same form of energy that powers the sun. If successful,
this $5 billion, internationally supported research project will advance
progress toward producing clean, renewable, commercially available fusion
energy by the middle of the century. Participating countries include the
United Kingdom, Russia, Japan, China, and Canada. To read the President's
statement, please visit
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...30130-18.html.
Federal Climate Change Science Program (CCSP): Includes $1.7 billion in FY
'04 budget request to fund Federal, multi-agency research program, with
$185 million requested for the Climate Change Research Initiative in FY
'04.
10-year Federal Strategic Research Plan Released. The Interagency U. S.
Climate Change Science Program proposed a 10-Year Strategic Plan in
November 2002, accompanied by a 1300-person workshop, with representatives
from over 35 countries. The final, comprehensive plan was released in July
2003 by Secretary Abraham and Secretary Evans, as well as White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Marburger. The document
describes a strategy for developing knowledge of variability and change in
climate and related environmental and human systems, and for encouraging
the application of this knowledge. Secretary Evans also announced a $103
million, two-year Federal initiative to accelerate the deployment of new
global observation technologies, focused on oceans, atmospheric aerosols,
and the natural carbon cycle. To read the plan, please visit
http://www.climatescience.gov/Librar...3/default.htm.
U.S. Hosts Inaugural Earth Observation Summit. The first-ever Earth
Observation Summit was held July 31, 2003 to generate strong,
international support to link thousands of individual technological assets
into a coordinated, sustained, and comprehensive global Earth observation
system. The purpose of the system is to provide the tools needed to
substantially improve our ability to identify and address critical
environmental, economic, and societal concerns.
More than 30 countries and 20 international organizations participated in
the Summit. Participants adopted a Summit Declaration recognizing the need
to support development of a comprehensive, coordinated Earth observation
system. For more information, please visit
http://www.climatescience.gov/Librar...ummit2003.htm.