The DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) has released a series of beautiful posters in the style of the WPA meant to inspire the future of abundance we can built together through clean technologies. They have release three new posters in the series this week.
This work celebrates the new legislation that included the creation of the Income Recover Act (IRA). The posters showcase the technologies ready to scale at the speed of our energy needs. These are not far off laboratory experiments, but prime-time solutions that will play a central role in stopping climate change. These posters are meant to show the inspiring not so distant future we can have by deploying these solutions at scale.
The poster series heps draw attention to the critical sectors they are deploying loans. Monthly, the LPO office releases a report of their ongoing activities. Since September, the cumulative financing requested in the applications has risen from $92.6 billion to $104.5 billion. The three largest categories of interest are for advanced vehicles and components, advanced nuclear and biofuels.
The posters highlight:
Advanced nuclear energy
Bioenergy & biofuels
Clean vehicle manufacturing
Economic development
Geothermal power
Solar: concentrating solar power
Solar: utility-scale photovoltaic solar
Wind energy
I'd like to see them rank them based on industry need for impact, which would include highlighting:
Carbon sequestering or green cement
Carbon sequestering steel.
Battery storage
Seaweed for carbon sequestering and alternative natural plastic replacement
Prefabricated net-zero building construction
Net-zero internet via green hosting
What other technologies should they add to the set? Please suggest in the comments.
To download the full poster set follow my link in the comments to the DOE.