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Prove to me that any state sponsored action to "combat" global warming is actually doing anything that has an iota of impact i.e. that if followed by all people, nations, whatever, will stop flooding Bangladesh.
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This is pretty easy to do. The vast majority of the technology breakthroughs in energy are occurring at university and national labs.
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Tell me what the national labs have done. BTW I worked at one for nine years. I have more than a little insight into them FWIW. I will say they're damn good at dismantlement activities.
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Solar cell efficiency have gone from 8% in the 1990s to 42.8%. Key players have been Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, NREL, Oak Ridge and University of Delaware.
I think this is the most recent record:
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/jul/solar072307.html
There are many other stories like it in other fields. The commercial sector is helping but when they do they are almost always getting funded via the DoE.