{"id":5735,"date":"2010-06-15T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2010-06-15T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T08:00:10","slug":"potato-chips-vs-clean-energy-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5735","title":{"rendered":"Potato Chips vs Clean Energy Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9177949\/Gates_venture_capitalist_Doerr_issue_warning_about_America_s_future?\">Gates, venture capitalist Doerr issue warning about America&#8217;s future<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the top 30 new energy technology companies worldwide that produce batteries, solar technologies and advanced wind energy, only four are headquartered in the United States, Doerr said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very sad that Americans spend more on potato chips than we do on investment in clean energy R&amp;D,&#8221; said Doerr.<\/p>\n<p>Gates said more federal research spending is needed to spur investment in clean technologies. &#8220;The incentives aren&#8217;t there to make it happen,&#8221; said Gates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gates, venture capitalist Doerr issue warning about America&#8217;s future Of the top 30 new energy technology companies worldwide that produce batteries, solar technologies and advanced wind energy, only four are headquartered in the United States, Doerr said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very sad &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5735\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,40,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-environment","category-politics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}