Energy Solution
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Improves Quality of Life
Cleaner Air
Improves Business
Efficiency
Reduces Highway Congestion
Reduces Foreign Oil Dependence
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Solution Availability
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Economic Improvement
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Digital Work Force
(employees use computers at home to produce digital information)
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Yes
Improves time efficiency
Yes
Yes
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Immediate and Long Term
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Energy and Economic Solution
Home based work lowers auto travel and fossil fuel emissions
Integrates work and family needs. Promotes Knowledge Age work transition. Eliminates time lost to commutes.
Lowers infrastructure maintenance costs
Potential 50% reduction in fuel consumption
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Hydrogen Economy
(fossil fuels replaced by hydrogen created by electricity from fusion reactor)
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Yes, long term solution
No Effect
No
Yes
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Earliest 2030
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Energy Source Only
Eliminates Air Pollutants: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, and may lower Nitrogen Oxides
Potential extensive reduction in oil consumption
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Renewable Carbon Fuels
(ethanol, plant oils)
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No
No Effect
No
Yes, significant processing challenges.
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Limited Supply Immediate and Long Term
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Energy Source Only
Burning renewable Carbon fuels produces Air Pollutants: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, and Nitrogen Oxides
Shifts some oil supply to domestic source
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Natural: Solar, Wind, Wave, Geothermal
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Yes
No Effect
No
Yes
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Immediate and Long Term
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Energy Source Only
Eliminates Air Pollutants: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, and Nitrogen Oxides
Potential extensive reduction in oil consumption
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