{"id":581,"date":"2009-03-17T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=581"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:43:19","slug":"oh-no-another-superhighway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/03\/17\/oh-no-another-superhighway\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, No–Another “Superhighway”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when we could exhale, assured that the term “Information Superhighway” had faded mercifully into the rear-view mirror–at the signpost up ahead: Your next stop: the “Electron Superhighway.”<\/p>\n

That’s the term that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar<\/a> is using to describe the transmission web that will facilitate the nation’s transformation to clean energy. Some random notes from his (and others’) appearance today before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Salazar:<\/p>\n

– 6,000 miles initially identified on BLM lands for new transmission lines on the “Electron Superhighway,” 1,000 on US Forest Service lands.<\/p>\n

– Access to land<\/a> for transmission will be the “Achilles heel” of the plans for a new\u00a0 clean-power grid.<\/p>\n

– Oil & gas need to be part of a “comprehensive energy plan,” along with renewables. The US now imports 70% of its oil.<\/p>\n

– Seven major onshore leases already approved, auctioning off another 34 million acres along the Gulf Coast this week.<\/p>\n

Ron Wyden (D-OR):<\/p>\n

– Let’s use the “backlog of deadly fuels” on the floor of federal forests to generate bio-fuels and reduce fire danger at the same time (Energy Act of 2000 apparently excluded forest slash from its definition of “biomass.”)<\/p>\n

– Hydrokinetic<\/a> (wave & tidal) power should be higher on the priority list for energy development.<\/p>\n

John McCain (R-AZ):<\/p>\n

– The Obama administration “has effectively killed nuclear power in the foreseeable future, for this country” (by its actions regarding Yucca Mountain and reprocessing of fuel).<\/p>\n

Phil Moeller, FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<\/a>):<\/p>\n

– Wave & tidal power could potentially fill 10% of the nation’s energy portfolio.<\/p>\n

Joanna Prukop, NM Secretary of Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources:<\/p>\n

– Wind energy is now price-competitive with natural gas (about 5 cents\/KW-Hour currently) and could thrive without federal subsidy. Solar, not so much.<\/p>\n

Dan Arvizu, Director, Nat’l Renewable Energy Lab<\/a>:<\/p>\n

– Used the term “smart grid” one hour and 38 minutes into the hearing, the first and only time it was mentioned.<\/p>\n

You can view the entire webcast<\/a> at the DOI archive.<\/p>\n

By the way,\u00a0 Salazar will hold a public hearing on energy policy in San Francisco on April 16th. It’ll start at 9 a.m. at UCSF’s Mission Bay Conference Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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