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Ron Wyden: “Yet we fritter away so much of this extraordinary resource because we have not set in place, as Senator Murkowski notes…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2009
Yet we fritter away so much of this extraordinary resource because we have not set in place, as Senator Murkowski notes, the full array of storage technologies that would allow us to capture the full potential of these renewable resources.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden points out the lack of storage technologies for renewable energy.

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