HB98


 * Bill Number -** HB98


 * Sponsors -** A Williams, Texas, Democrat, R Task, North Carolina, Democrat, J Miceli, Colorado

Purpose - ** Trying to rid our dependence on foreign oil and make the environment healthier for everyone to enjoy. Eligibility - ** This bill will be applying to everyone in the US that uses electronic devices. Terms and Benefits - ** This Bill will work by funding organizations that are researching new ways to use renewable energy resources, like sun light, to power our world. Our current technology allows harnessing some of the energy that the sun is releasing with solar panels, and the most efficient solar panel in our society today only captures 25% of the energy that the sun produces. This is one of the main reasons that our society doesn’t start to rely on solar panels for a main income of energy. But over our time period our solar panels have gathered a much smaller percentage than 25%. If we would work on upgrading our technology with solar panels we could start to rely less and less on oil, possibly eventually completely switching to the use of healthy solar panels. The sun gives out over one million times the energy that we use in a million years. This brings us back to how our bill will achieve this. It would first need to gather funding for providing pay for scientists to research the energy options. Then this Bill will provide funding for big or small organizations that are determined to upgrade our current clean energy uses, like solar panels and wind turbines. When the proper technology is researched and ready to mass produce the bill would provide funding to proper factories to work on mass producing the product. The Bill would then need to provide funding to buy large land slots that would be appropriate for the type of renewable resource that we would be using. And finally provide funding for workers to building the wind turbines or solar panels and other associated things with them. Fiscal Impact - ** Researching and improving the technology of renewable resources does take large amounts of money. A wind turbine usually costs anywhere between 1.2 million dollars and 2.6 million dollars, to install it can be anywhere from 6,000 to 22,000 dollars; also modern days household solar panels can cost anywhere from 2,000-8,000 dollars consisting on their brand and size. To get our Bill plans to cut funding to organizations dealing with pro non-renewable resources. Also this type of spending is very obviously discriminatory; it deals with science and research towards a specific topic. This Billy could also fit into other currently funded project. But those projects would mainly consist of other options to the fuel that cars would use and giving them better mph. That subject doesn’t directly relate to relate to this bills current subject.
 * Issue Category - Alternate Energy Sources**
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