links for 2008-08-17
- Drilling Offshore to Affect World Oil Prices... and Other Tales - Econbrowser
- McCain's Pitch for Safe Nuclear Power May Be Undercut by Leaks - Bloomberg
- Africa Needs More Funds to Deliver U.N.'s Goals - Scientific American
- Freddie Mac: My Chapter - Arnold Kling
- Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation - NBER
- What's a Recession, Anyway? - NBER
- Quantum Computing with Ions - Scientific American
- Testing Genes, Solving Little - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Posted by Mark Thoma on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 12:06 AM in Links | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Comments (1)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/EDT11292TA.DTL&hw=sovacool&sn=001&sc=1000
Who gets energy R&D subsidies
Department of Energy R&D subsidies from 2002 to 2007 (in 2007 dollars)
Nuclear power received $6.2 billion (54%)
Fossil-fuel related energy received $3.1 billion (27%)
Renewable power technologies received $1.4 billion (12%)
Other technologies $.8 billion (7 percent)
Source: Department of Energy
Energy subsidies compared*
End-use energy efficiency has received $1 in subsidies for every $35 spent on oil, gas and coal subsidies granted between 1943 and 1998.
Nuclear $150 billion
Solar $4.4 billion
Wind $1.3 billion
Note: Calculated in 2007 dollars
Source: Department of Energy
Posted by: ken melvin | Link to comment | Aug 17, 2008 at 05:34 AM