Renewables could provide 50% energy by 2050
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- Hewlett-Packard researchers say that cow manure may soon be powering computers.
- European and Chinese solar companies take huge financial hits due to European financial issues.
- Over 80 applications have been submitted in Arizona for solar and wind plants, but new high-voltage transmission lines must be installed to deliver energy.
- Singapore is home to a $1.85B solar wafer, cell and panel plant built by Renewable Energy Corp. of Norway; it’s the largest plant of its kind.
- Tribal nations, with 95 million acres of land under tribal management, have a unique opportunity to create renewable energy jobs and protect the environment; they have the potential to produce 17.6 trillion kilowatt hours of solar electricity/year, 4.5 times the amount of electricity generated in the U.S. in 2004.
- Bill Gates says on CNN that the technology to store energy from renewable sources like wind and solar is still undiscovered; he predicts decades until the technology is developed.
- Green-power is government endorsed but not mandated; about 50% of homes have the option to buy renewable energy, if you can afford it.
- Drake Landing a 52-home community in Alberta supplies 80% of homes’ space heating from solar, a world record; Alberta is the center of Canada’s solar industry.
- San Diego-based Sapphire Energy plans to build algae biofuel plant in Luna County, NM.
- Minnesota researchers designed $3.75M carbon-free system that produces fertilizer from wind power.
- BP Alternative Energy official says that the company is still committed to building a wind farm in Wyoming County this year.
- NV Energy trying to burn waste wood at coal plant to provide cheap way to fulfill part of the state-mandated renewable energy standard.
- Wal-Mart set goals for 100% renewable energy, zero waste and sustainable products and employee practices to save money.
- Alternative energy in Maui needs utility-scale energy storage options.
- Atlantic Ocean called the Saudi Arabia of wind energy; states race to be ahead in wind production.
- BP Wind Energy partners with Colorado’s Xcel Energy to develop wind farm; 250 workers needed for project.
- International Energy Agency says that a revolution in energy technology is underway and renewables could provide 50% of world’s power by 2050.
