{"id":6728,"date":"2012-06-25T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T13:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:44:29","slug":"richard-branson-on-clean-energy-nrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/richard-branson-on-clean-energy-nrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson on Clean Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report_refutures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report_refutures.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"report_refutures\" width=\"193\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6730\" \/><\/a>The end of subsidies for fossil fuels was one of the big topics at Rio+20. One of the businessman to support initiative was Virgin founder Richard Branson.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe said getting ridding of all subsidies of fossil fuels would be one of the most useful outcomes of the Rio+20. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That would be the biggest boost for the clean fuel industry,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\" target=\"_blank\">Green Biz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\" target=\"_blank\">alternative energy<\/a> future is possible and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying it. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a report called <em>Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures)<\/em> in which it claims that it is possible to get 50 percent of our energy from renewable sources with technologies that we already have or, at least, without any major breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>The report was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and features collaborations from more than 110 contributors from 35 organizations including national laboratories, industry, universities, and non-governmental organizations. To read the report, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/analysis\/re_futures\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Interview with Richard Branson:<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e87AgVd7Log\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of subsidies for fossil fuels was one of the big topics at Rio+20. One of the businessman to support initiative was Virgin founder Richard Branson. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1738,1521,1394,1522],"class_list":["post-6728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","tag-clean-energy","tag-green-biz","tag-nrel","tag-us-clean-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}