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  • HPC and Manufacturing

    “High Performance Computing and U.S. Manufacturing Roundtable.”

     
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  • Handout 6 Mobilizing

    “Mobilizing a World-Class Energy Workforce.”

    The Council Recommends that: 


    • The U.S. Government offer full scholarships to U.S. graduates who commit to a minimum period of 
    service in an energy-related career in the governmental, academic or non-profit sectors. 


    • Congress establish a CompetePass program that will allow eligible participants to redeem the 
    passes at U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) one-stop training centers. 


    • The U.S. Government grant green cards to foreign students receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in scientific and engineering disciplines from U.S. institutions. 

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  • Handout 5 Spawning

    “Spawning Technological Breakthroughs and Entrepreneurship.”

    The Council Recommends that: 


    • Congress support ten commercial-scale carbon capture demonstrations to be completed by 2020 
    and three to five at-scale demonstrations of energy storage technologies. 


    • Congress support three to five demonstrations of new nuclear reactors by 2018. 


    • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) create the 21st “Century Clean Energy Leadership Initiative” 
    funded at $250 million to create regionally-based R&D test-beds and large-scale commercial pilots

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