TEKNIK ELEKTRONIKA

In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama called for more federal government investment in R&D, education and transportation at what he dubbed is a "Sputnik moment". Obama is keen to bolster federal R&D spending in "biomedical, IT and especially clean technology" in his 2011 budget to come in a few weeks. Bolstered spending on energy R&D will come from "eliminating the billions we currently give to oil companies," he said.

 

The President called for putting a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. Looking farther ahead he challenged the U.S. to get 80 percent of its energy by 2035 from renewable sources including clean coal, wind, solar, nuclear sources.

 

Obama compared the technological challenges now ahead of his fellow Americans (and the rest of the world) with the late 1950s when the US felt acutely challenged by a softly beeping USSR satellite, calling today

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