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The Germans have really subtracted when it comes to renewable fuel sources, and have become one of the major players in the substitute energy game. Under the aegis of the nation’s electricity feed laws, the German people set a world record in 2006 by investing over $10 billion (US) in research, development, and implementation of wind turbines, biogas power plants, and solar collection cells. Germany’s “feed laws” permit the German homeowners to connect to an electrical grid through some source of renewable energy and then sell back to the power company any excess energy produced at retail prices. This economic incentive has catapulted Germany into the number-one position among all nations relating to the amount of operational solar arrays, biogas plants, and wind turbines. The 50-terawatt hours of electricity produced by these renewable energy sources account for 10% of all of Germany’s energy production per annum. In 2006 alone, Germany installed 100,000 solar energy collection systems.
Over in the United States, the BP corporation has established an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) to spearhead encompassing new R&D efforts into clean burning renewable energy sources, most prominently biofuels for ground vehicles. BP’s investment comes to $50 million (US) each year over the course of the next decade. This EBI will be physically found at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The University is in partnership with BP, and it will be responsible for research and growth of new biofuel crops, biofuel-delivering agricultural systems, and machines to produce renewable fuels in fluid form for automobile ingestion. The University will especially spearhead efforts in the field of genetic engineering with regards to creating the heightened biofuel crops. The EBI will additionally have as a primary centerpiece technological innovations for converting heavy hydrocarbons into pollution-free and highly efficient fuels.
Also in the US, the battle rages on between Congress and the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). The GEA’s Executive Director Karl Gawell has recently written to the Congress and the Department of Energy, the only method to make sure that DOE and OMB do not simply revert to their irrational insistence on terminating the geothermal research program is to schedule a congressional hearing specifically on geothermal energy, its potential, and the role of federal research. What is more, Gawell goes on to say that recent reports by the National Research Council, the Western Governors’ Association Clean Energy Task Force and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology all support expanding geothermal research funding to formulate the technology essential to use this vast, untapped domestic renewable energy resource. Supporters of geothermal energy, such as this writer, are astonished at the minuscule sum of consciousness that the population has about the enormous advantages that research and development of the renewable secondary energy source would provide the US, both practically and economically. Geothermal energy is already less costly to produce relating to kilowatt-hours than the coal that the US keeps mining. Geothermal energy is readily accessible, sitting a few miles below our feet and easily accessible through drilling. One company, Ormat, which is the third biggest geothermal energy producer in the United States and has plants in a number of different nations, is already a billion-dollar-per-year business—geothermal energy is certainly economically viable.
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Solar panels Photo Mugs Solar panels in sunlight. The energy of the light falling on the panels is converted to electricity by a semiconducting material. This is a very clean and environmentally-friendly form of energy. These solar panels are manufactured by BP. Photographed in England….. |