In a recent speech given at a jobs training center for energy hardware and software in Lanham, Maryland, President Obama announced controversial decision to break ground on the first nuclear power plant in 30 years. Obama addresses both sides of the environmental and economic debate surrounding clean energy. A major point he makes is that nuclear power is cleaner for the air: it will prevent 16 million tons of carbon dioxide emission each year, the amount that a coal plant of similar scale would produce. This is the equivalent of taking 3.5 million cars of the road. Using more dubious logic, Obama states that our “competitors”, referring to other nations such a France and China, are building nuclear plants, and creating jobs for their citizens, and we need to keep up with them to keep the economy strong.
What’s your opinion of Obama’s energy strategies?
After the EU signed Kyoto, requiring it to reduce carbon emissions 8% below 1990 levels by 2012, many products and design changed there, diverging from US standards. Cars, for example, became smaller, lighter; and more fuel efficient. Even US automakers not known for efficiency make 62 MPG cars for Europe. Germany and Spain introduced Feed-in Tariffs that paid homeowners to make solar power on their roofs.But most interestingly, for Americans now considering energy efficient retrofits with a new “Cash for Caulkers” program being considered, a whole new industry was created by the need to supply new energy efficient building innovations. Energy efficient glass.
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president 
How much potential does geothermal energy, a cheap and renewable energy source, have to meet America’s clean energy needs?
People are amazing these days. Last December, a 70-year old Indian woman gave birth to her first child. And now, just this past week, although not as physically impressive, a 70-year man from Colorado invented a line of solar-powered lawn equipment. So much for moving to that lakefront property in northern Florida.
Pretty soon we will all be able to power our homes and cars just by taking a trip to the bathroom.
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