Your Questions About Solar Energy Generator Price

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You don’t find renewable resources. They are right out there in front of us. The problem is converting these resources into electrical energy. The technology isn’t there yet for efficient and economical use of renewable resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, tidal etc. Work is underway in the Bay of Fundy to create turbines to harness the tidal energy in the area. The amount of energy they create right now is about enough to power 100 000 homes, which isn’t very much. Iceland is blessed with geothermal energy and they do have a lot of infrastructure in this area. The current volcano in Iceland is evidence of the amount of geothermal energy they have. I would imagine that Hawaii could get all of its energy from geothermal if the political will was there. Wind turbines are popping up all over in Europe and accounting for a healthy percentage of their total power. Wind turbines are gaining popularity in North America. The problem with these renewable resources is they are not always reliable, ie: the sun only shines for half the day and winds are not always blowing in the area where a wind turbine may be built. Renewable resources are also much more expensive. Your hydro bill would be much higher if all the electricity you got came from renewables and not from fossil fuels. Nuclear power is somewhere in the middle; being somewhat renewable, clean if taken proper care of and cheep once the nuclear generators are built. New technology has made it nearly impossible for a meltdown as has happened in the past and up to 90% of spent nuclear fuel can be recycled to be used again.

Wood is a resource in the middle. It is both renewable and non-renewable. It takes decades to grow new trees which is a short time compared to millions of years for fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas. We have already reached peak oil, which means we have found and drilled more than half of the oil on the planet. With economies such as China and India getting into the style of life that we enjoy in the west, the burden on oil resources is even greater. This is why the price of gas for your car and home heating fuels has climbed so high over the past few years. As we run out of places to drill for oil we begin to get it from places that we would never have thought of drilling just a few decades ago, such as off shore, the Arctic and the Alberta Tar Sands. As we continue to go into these regions for our oil, there will be more news stories as the one unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico right now. We have plenty of coal and even more dirty coal, but if you think that pollution is bad now, it is nothing compared to a planet run on coal. And you can’t run your car on coal.

What we need is a huge infusion of money into the nuclear program. These reactors can be used to create hydrogen for cars and other things that need to run on a combustible fuel. Canada has lots of Uranium in the ground, just waiting to be mined and turned into nuclear fuel. Of course we will have to keep this out of the hands of rogue nations and terrorists.

Bottom line, if you want to have the lifestyle that we all enjoy, you will have to pay for it one way or another.

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If I were President of the United States of America, I would care of the environment by:

1. Replacing/supplanting the Environmental Protection Agency with a new Department of the Environment.

2. I would grant tax deductions to all businesses and industries, large and small, so they could write off the cost of: remodeling their facilities (with environmentally friendly materials and to be energy efficient), new energy efficient equipment and vehicles, and R&D in environmental improvements to their business or industry.

3. I would have developed new environmentally-sound ways of extracting natural resources so that mining, logging, and fishing are possible without damaging ecology, or at least without damaging it permanently. Government and private collaboration, tax breaks, and loans would help, as well as massive research and development.

4. Ban common unrecyclable materials and disposable products, or tax it highly.

5. Begin a National Program for the design and construction of “Stirling” solar arrays, “Stirling” ground power generators, horizontal-blade wind farms at sea and on land, advanced nuclear energy stations, clean-coal retrofitting of existing coal energy stations with new, high-efficiency generators, and technology for existing nuclear and coal energy stations to use exhaust that would contribute to thermal pollution, and for research with the European Union on how to re-process nuclear waste into fuel again. Research carbon-nanotubes, superconducting materials, piezoelectric wires, and wireless electricity for increased efficiency in energy transmission.

6. Re-commit the U.S.A to the ITER project, and to additional Fusion energy research.

7. Begin a National Program for the construction of many new Materials Reclamation Facilities across the nation, and for the establishment of materials science labs and cooperation with the private sector to invent new materials to replace non-recyclable ones, and to learn how make all materials recyclable.

8. Institute National Trash Separation Laws, and retrofit all waste management facilities with artificial composters so that organic waste can be turned into compost and fertilizer and shipped to American agricultural regions so that wasted food can be returned to the environment and the nutrients can be recycled.

9. Institute a National Transportation Energy Transition Program, with investments and government aid for a Domestic Oil Industry, so that oil can be produced from domestic oil sources, oil shale in the Midwest regions, and coal. That oil should also be mixed with ethanol produced via the Ethanol Program (see below).

10. Help “Big Oil” find ways to make oil refineries less environmentally damaging, and build new advanced ones to increase capacity.

11. Institute an Agricultural Program that gives farms aid by giving them permission to grow sugarcane and corn for use in ethanol production, making ethanol a form of subsidy that benefits other sectors of the economy and environment. Also, controlling the amount of corn each farm or agribusiness can use for ethanol can help reduce the environmental impact of growing sugarcane and corn for fuel usage, and also cushions the market by reducing the impact on prices if food is used for fuel instead of food consumption.

12. Begin cooperation with the various U.S. Airlines for new technologies for aircraft propulsion, and for the introduction of new more environmentally friendly fuels.

13. Institute a National Fund to allow all levels of government to replace their vehicles with fuel-efficient, hybrid, and flex-fuel vehicles manufactured by U.S. Auto industry.

14. Institute a National Interstate Public Transportation System, to create a Interstate High-Speed Rail and Maglev Rail System, and also to create Intra-state systems of Public Transport, including buses, advanced rail, and also advanced maglev cargo rail systems.

15. Increased fuel efficiency standards, with R&D tax write-offs for automotive manufactures so that the cost of these new vehicles does not rise and hurt consumers.

16. Mandate a National Repair Program to completely restore, update, and expand the National Transportation Infrastructure.

17. Mandate a National Decentralized Solar Energy Program, to install advanced, highly-efficient, U.S.-manufactured solar panels on the top of all homes, businesses, warehouses, stores, and skyscrapers across the U.S.

18. Mandate a National Environmental Restoration Program for the restoration of natural ecology damaged by human activity, both on land, and along the coast, and at sea.

19. Institute National water conservation laws in conjunction with the restoration, and expansion of water management infrastructure, and the building of numerous Desalination Facilities for the production of water fit for human consumption and use.

20. Begin an International Program between all existing Space Agencies, for the establishment of a single, massive advanced Planetary Environmental Monitoring Satellite Network, that can examine and monitor global weather and atmospheric conditions and atmospheric chemical pollution.