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Feds Unwrap $15M For Corporate Energy Reduction
As hard as it is to imagine, coondoggie writes with news that the federal government just unveiled a new energy bill that will offer $15 million in assistance to retailers who help to build and adopt energy-efficient technologies. "The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the first phase of $15 million awards to retailers Best Buy, JCPenney, John Deere, Macy's, SuperValu, Target, Toyota, and Whole Foods Market. Commercial Real Estate Firms such as CB Richard Ellis, Forest City Enterprises as well as the financials groups also saw some of the money. Along with the money the companies will have access to the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to design, build, tune and operate at least one new prototype building and to retrofit an existing building project."
I don't know, 10 grand worth of t shirts? Maybe that person should be spending the money more productively to being with. If people (those at screen printing shops) have to start getting jobs with companies that actually do something useful for the rest of society I don't think thats a bad thing but it does suck in the short run that alot of normal folk are getting screwed over and it shouldn't have happened this way but now we're here. I mean right now I'm on track to be working off NIH grants in a year or two as well (pharmacology) and really I don't know if I could justify the utility of that to a bunch of folks without jobs or money. Best to know how to fix cars or something as well.