Comment on DOE Chief: U.S. Is in Trouble Without More Energy R&D; by Ucilia Wang

I agree that there is a great need to deploy promising technologies, and the cash grant and loan guarantee programs are helping some of these technologies to reach the mass market. I believe Chu was talking about committing long-term policies to invest in R&D.; He noted that the U.S. is still a leader in innovation, so, like you said, there is an enormous amount of great R&D; going on still. But China is able to move aggressively with demonstration and deployment because it's got long-term plans and money to accelerate R&D; to reach demo/deployment more quickly. To keep up, we, too, need to commit more money, or else we'll be outpaced.

Comment on DOE Chief: U.S. Is in Trouble Without More Energy R&D; by Ucilia Wang

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