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Appendix C: Summary of Recent Studies
Appendix C: Summary of Recent Studies
Pages 113-122
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. The major conclusions of these studies are abstracted in this appendix to summarize current thinking on critical issues facing R&D and the deployment of renewable energy technologies.
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The portfolio should include the following elements: · a balance of basic research and applied R&D (including industry cofunded demonstrations) · near-term and long-term R&D to provide continuing return on investment and to contribute to the health and vitality of domestic energy industries a continuing commitment to supporting energy efficiency and renewable energy .
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Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions: Potential Impacts of Energy Technologies by 2010 and Beyond focused on how different sectors of the economy might respond to programs for reducing carbon emissions.
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Three types of hydropower facilities are in operation: dams with storage reservoirs; run-of-river systems without storage reservoirs; and pumped storage projects. Although pumped storage is not a renewable energy technology, it has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The major findings relevant to renewable energy technologies are summarized below. Renewable energy pathways using energy from sunlight, wind, rivers, and oceans, heat from the planet, and biomass all have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by displacing fossil-fueled electricity generation or petroleum transportation fuels.
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Geothermal energy technologies use thermal energy from the earth to produce electricity or heat for industrial processes. Hydrothermal reservoirs produce about 2,100 megawatts electric (MWe)
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completed a study, Federal Energy Research and Development Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, that focused on major challenges for a range of energy technologies (PCAST, 1997~. The following discussion summarizes the findings and conclusions related to renewable energy technologies.
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4. In the next 10 years, commercialize advanced, energy-efficient biopower generation technologies employing gas turbines and fuel cells integrated with biomass gasifiers to exploit the advantages of biomass over coal as a feedstock for gasification.
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Specific opportunities for cooperation identified in the study were initiatives for the development of renewable energy technologies and fossil fuel decarbonization. The panel recommended that a broad-based renewable energy cluster organization be established to accelerate the development and deployment of renewable energy technologies, especially to meet energy needs in rural areas of the developing world.
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Carbon Reductions: Potential Impacts of Energy Technologies by 2010 and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: U.S.
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