US to Cut Funds for Two Renewable Energy Sources

Christian Science Monitor – Out at the Wanapum Dam on the Columbia River, a new turbine is being tested that generates more electricity, but won’t kill so many fish – thanks to research dollars from Uncle Sam.

Down in California’s Long Valley, on the Sierra Nevada range, federal researchers are working to boost efficiency of geothermal energy, which uses the earth’s natural heat to generate power.

But renewable energy advocates may have to kiss goodbye those and other research projects. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is quitting the hydropower and geothermal power research business – if Congress will let it.
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