The Trump administration must invest in innovation to re -determine the energy advantage
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The Trump administration will get rid of his predecessor's attention to climate change, and is obsessed with the task of trying to quickly end the weirdness of fossil fuel. President Trump plans to use the huge energy reserves of the United States to re -establish the country's dominance and greatly expand the basic load to make the power cheaper. One component of his energy policy is to invest in innovation.
It is advocated that energy advantages will strengthen the security of the United States and its allies, especially considering that energy exports are the main sources of revenue from Russia and Iran's strategic competitors. Despite the war in Ukraine, Russia is still the third largest source of natural gas imports in Europe. By increasing its own liquefied natural gas exports, the United States can make money, and at the same time support its allies with reliable and affordable energy.
The policy should not stop here. Poverty -stricken countries have fallen into energy poverty, and middle -income countries usually rely on outdated energy technology. As Trump's upcoming Energy Minister Chris Wright said: “More energy and better energy are the path to improving human life.” Although it is obviously needed to eliminate energy poverty and create employment opportunities, However, development organizations such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank have refused to invest in oil and natural gas projects in poor countries. The United States can advocate its equity to change the policy of the two banks, or to help 18 African countries put forward suggestions for establishing a new “energy bank”.
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In cooperation with US companies, the government should guide the development of funds to invest in energy infrastructure and technology to cope with China's soft financial influence. Investment and exports of US oil and natural gas technology can open the market for American companies, helping poor countries promote growth and improve environmental results through energy acquisition, and reduce air pollution by introducing more efficient technology. In the long run, a richer and more vibrant world means greater stability and security.
Although the next government will not be restrained by climate obsession, climate change is still a real problem and needs to be cleverly solved. Fortunately, it is much more efficient than the expensive and slow method of subsidizing green energy subsidies than the Bayeng government, which is also very attractive for the climate suspect.
First of all, the United States needs to maintain existing nuclear power stations, especially considering the promise of the Trump administration's commitment to expand basic load and reduce energy costs. The nuclear energy in the United States has fallen slowly, and there are 21 factories (one -quarter of the total capacity) about closed risks.
Although it is promised to replace the nucleus with more renewable energy, the reality is that nuclear energy usually means more fossil fuel use. Environmentalists cheered for the closure of the Indian corner nuclear power plant in 2021, but led to almost relying on fossil fuels in the lower city of New York.
Ten years of running plants means that the operating cost of basic load power of basic zero emissions is very low. In addition, unlike solar energy or wind energy, the nuclear reactor provides stable and consistent energy. These energy sources are intermittent and depend on favorable weather conditions. They need a large amount of land expansion and face major storage challenges.
Secondly, the new government should make more investment in clean energy research and development to help release American innovation. Long-term innovation is very helpful for society, but it usually suffers from serious investment in private companies, because it is difficult to make up for all benefits-patents may be exhausted before major breakthroughs. The United States invested a lot of investment in energy innovation in the 1980s, but has reduced GDP percentage by half since then.
Climate economists have shown that Green Energy R & D is the most effective way to deal with climate change. Part of the reason is that this is because green innovation accounts for a small part of the current climate policy cost. Some reasons are that this is because innovation can use everyone-innovative green energy is ultimately cheaper than fossil fuel, which means the transformation of all countries.
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Even if there is no climatic attention, there are many things to do such a policy: investment in green research and development will promote the transformation of breakthroughs in other parts of our lives. For example, developing better batteries with renewable power can mean better batteries in our mobile phones and industries.
An obvious field of innovation will be the so -called “fourth -generation” nuclear. The nuclear energy commitment provides very safe, very cheap, and no interest. At present, China has greatly surpassed the United States, but the United States should win this game with many other people.
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Such a green innovation driving force will show us partners-many of them are very concerned about climate-the United States cares about climate change, but hopes to effectively solve it. The policy will be in sharp contrast to the failure method of stifling regulations in Europe, which increases energy prices, indicating that it can respond to climate change without weakening the economy.
Realizing energy dominance should mean that the United States not only shares its huge energy reserves and leads production with the world, but also establishes an innovative path to shape the future.