Page 12 RAJN April 1978 It's bad enough (0 be duped. It's worse (0 be constantly considered stupid enough not (0 notice when you've been had! You sec, a number of us a.e. folks from the provinces were brought inco D.C. in late January (0 hear about DOE's "role in support of a.e.," as / mentioned in the Feb/Mar '78 RAIN. There was a rapid question-and-answer session in which Jerry Plunke([ of MERDJ and Harriet Barlow of ILSR were able (0 illuminate for the 300-person audience that Maxine Savitz (DOE-Conservation) didn't understand the relation between a.e. and lifestyle change co "simple living." But even more vital (0 the transition (Oward a solar America was the revelation , via an internal DOE memorandum, thac the energy agc ncy was actually pl anning to cut the nation's solar energy budget in fiscal year 1979 1 Score: Nuclear 1,750; Solar 40 /\s you can see on the charts we've reprinted from that documen t, budget au thori ty for solar energy for FY '79 is projected to be $373 million; the budget authority for FY '78 is $390 million. Simultaneously, the nuclear research budget will remain approximately 4-112 times as high and the fossil research budget wil l increase from $846 million to $924 million . The document also reveals that DOE has over 1,700 employees involved in nuclear development work (1 ,300 field personnel and 450 at D.C. headquarters) while less than 40 arc working in wind, solar thermal and photovoltaic research. IronicalJy, the report reveals that while solar technologies have less than 1140 the staffing found in the nuclear division, DOE nonetheless projects solar's contribution to the nation's energy supply to be 10,000 times greater than it presently is while the nuclear con tribution will o nly increase by a factor of six. SIDE ·STEPPING FY'79 Budget DOE ($ in Em- BTUs BTUs millions ) ployees in 1979 in 2000 NUCLEAR AND FOSSIL FUELS Nuclear 1,120.3 450 HQ 4.1 quads 25.0 quads 1,300 Field Coal .15 1. 3 5 Coal Gasi fica tion ? none 4.2 Oil ? .2 5.5 Oil Shale ? none 3.2 Natural Gas ? .2 6.0 SOLAR AND GEOTHERMAL Solar Thermal 82.0 11 HQ 200 kWe 20 Gwe 6 Field Wind 40.7 4 HQ 300 kWe 20 Gwe OTEC 33.2 6 HQ 0 10 Gwe Biomass 26.9 3 HQ 3 quads 3 quads Pho(Ovol taic 76.1 8 HQ 200 kWe 30 Gwe Geothermal 126.7 5S HQ .05 quads 4-9 quads 1S Field
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