{"id":386541,"date":"2020-11-27T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386541"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:10:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T06:40:50","slug":"warp-speed-for-clean-energy-here-is-why-it-just-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/warp-speed-for-clean-energy-here-is-why-it-just-wont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Warp speed for clean energy? Here is why it just won\u2019t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the success of Operation Warp Speed in driving vaccine development [in America], some commentators have called for Warp Speed equivalents for clean energy\u2014including batteries, geothermal power and nuclear micro-reactors. Before agreeing to any such plan, however, it\u2019s worth asking what enabled Operation Warp Speed to deliver quality vaccines so fast.<\/p>\n<p>The programme commits the government to purchasing a large number of vaccines in advance (it also gave many of the companies research and development money). The total cost of the programme is about $18 billion. That is hardly cheap, but neither is it a budget buster. And it pales when compared to the short-run benefits of stemming the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the success of Operation Warp Speed in driving vaccine development [in America], some commentators have called for Warp Speed equivalents for clean energy\u2014including batteries, geothermal power and nuclear micro-reactors. Before agreeing to any such plan, however, it\u2019s worth asking what enabled Operation Warp Speed to deliver quality vaccines so fast. The programme commits the government to purchasing a large number of vaccines in advance (it also gave many of the companies research and development money). The total cost of the programme is about $18 billion. That is hardly cheap, but neither is it a budget buster. And it pales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}