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In the end, the solar collector industry is currently growing at a rate of 20% per year and the photovoltaic industry at a rate of 40%. Similar to that is the case of wind power plants. Due to governmental support wind power has become rather popular in Denmark with the result that Denmark has become the main producer of wind power plants world wide. Today the cost of electricity produced from windmills has almost reached the price of electricity produced out of nuclear power plants. Last years newly built wind power plants equal the productivity of two large nuclear power plants.
Growth rates in this sector equal 34% world wide and 60% in the United States.
In times, when economic growth is more than uncertain, new forms to promote economic growth need to be found. The ideal solution is to find a sector where economic growth takes place without the destruction of the environment. Traditional energy sources have shown that they are not able to be subjects of clean and sustainable development.
Of course, there are voices that might talk about the high prices of renewable energy sources and its technologies. To a certain extent that is correct when analyzed from a far distance. But when looked at the accuracy of this argument in more detail, they turn out to be myths. On the one hand scholars that believe that fossil and traditional energy sources are cheaper than RES usually analyze, in the case of traditional sources, only one specific part of the so called resource chain. The cost calculations related to the use of traditional energy sources like fossil fuels do not take into considerations factors like the risks that are connected with using those resources. The risks are starting at the point of exploitation, move on to the risks related to the transportation (tanker accidents, oil spills), and end with the burning of fossil fuels and air pollution. On the other hand those scholars are very critical and very correct in analyzing the costs for renewable energy sources. In this case each step is analyzed and the result is, of course, that renewable energy sources are more expensive. This calculation does not even include the amounts of funding distributed in the case of traditional fuels. Fossil fuels, as such, are funded each year with an amount of around 300 Million USD.
Of course, using all those arguments for the implementation of RES might still be not very convincing to a number of people. In the end, though, the implementation of renewable energy sources is not going to happen overnight. With the implementation of renewable energy sources step-by-step the costs will be relatively high at the beginning but will decrease at a high rate eventually. The implementation will start a boom of new research activities. A new competition of who has the most efficient technologies for renewable energies will be initiated. When a complete transformation of the current energy supply system is on its way a new industrial revolution will be the result and this time this industrial revolution can be beneficiary not only for few parts of the world but for the entire world.
In the end, it can be said that fossil and traditional resources for energy production will run out. The conflicts related to the securing of these resources will intensify. The result will be that states will become less and less independent from each other in a negative sense.
The influence of multinational companies will increase with the centralization of energy supply and the result will be that power in the world will be concentrated in the hands of a view.
The logical way is to change the system from its roots. This can only happen with the implementation of a decentralized energy supply system instead of a centralized. A democratic system relies on the decentralization of power. The only known way of supplying energy locally is by means of renewable energy sources. Social/political structures can be improved, the economy will be revitalized and economic growth can be guaranteed.
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The problem is implementation Antony Felix O. O. Simbowo | May 7th, 2005
Its sad that places like Sub Saharan Africa with plenty of sun and wind are still wallowing in energy deficits...
Pundits like you should help people like us in the developed world to lobby our governments to form tangible frameworks on the wholescale adoption of renewable energy sources. The winning of the Nobel Prize by Prof. Maathai adds a voice but still seems inadequate...Its here that we need vocal back up...For how long are we going to depend on hydro electricity with the perilous global warming catching up on us?
Eco dome. Shevnin | Feb 2nd, 2007
Coming from that that main sign alive material is his
desymmetry , sending at interaction him with
surrounding ambience, modern sources to energy, such, as atomic
and hydrogen , on the strength of their lethargies i.e. the
absences dominating spirals, turned out to be to be bad for
alive fabrics mankind, t.k. the gradual accumulation opposite
spiral alive material in organism of the person has brought
about contamination natures incompatible with life radioactive and
chemical element. In chemistries, for instance, organic sugar is
adopted by organism, but received by chemical way no. On bad
influence opposite spiral alive indicates and V.I. Vernadskiy
Natural result these output is a question: What realize the
accumulation to energy right in human organism to account slow
and free taking away her from surrounding cool tel?"Appeared
the integer a direction about work with shaft hutch and not
only shaft.
The Problem so important and actual that it without exaggeration
possible to refer to one of central in all modern.
After all with decision it, what notes K.E. Ciolkovskiy,
mankind is opened future, independent from solar energy and even
internal independent heat of the land . This else alchemists
concerned with with timeses of the muddle ages.
Already presently possible find some headwaterses of the approach
to decision of this problem on fetter of the development of the
thermodynamics of the inconvertible processes of the cool
thermonuclear syntheses in plants and resulting thereof
thermodynamicses of the biological processes , according to
which biological system (in our event human organism), must
be thermodynamic open, like plant and, besides, capable to direct
the flow to energy from external, more cool space inside itself or
artificial shell of the building (the condition, equivalent mode
heat pump ). The premiseses At observance of these conditions for
realization of the process, favouring unceasing, in the course of
time, increasing the influx to energy inside biological system.
Entered I.R. Prigozhinym so-called criterion to evolutions ,
according to which stability of the biological structures comes
to light the вдали from conditions of the balance. For instance
jumping with hummocks on hummock on marsh, space to lifes ,
become easier, curvilinear and more varied,
under vastly smaller expenses to energy
and material. So so it is important to prepare
project production available and autonomous vein for selfsurvival,
mastering swamp and wood without damage to nature.
The Development of the project ecotheatre - a construction
museum-workshop on education children and student production folding
net framework allowing minimize the energy expenseses a
production and displacement material for construction
in wood and on swamp area, traditionally unfit for construction
vein.
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