As in 2005, the federal production tax credits (PTC) for companies producing renewable energy has been renewed, sent a message has far and wide in the renewable energy industry paid off in, with the promise of profitability, energy efficiency, and social and environmental "good karma" all in one convenient package. The following are some of the latest ways in which we have been together on renewable energy trip to take shape.
Employees: companies receive tax benefits, their sources of electricity, to change certain renewable energy, steadily rising demand for labor in all sectors of industry - from research and development to production to sales, installation and service and support.
More and more countries take to lead the federal government and implement their own public benefit funds and increase incentive programs for renewable energy, promote the same result. According to a report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory released in the five years, has between 2001 and 2006, voluntary demand for renewable energy increased a thousandfold. The bottom line is as bright as sunlight - creating jobs in renewable energy.
The Company: General Electric, Whole Foods Market, Safeway, Starbucks, General Motors, Kinko's, FedEx - these are just some of the leading companies, and still have an active and aggressive transition to renewable energy sources.
In the case of many companies, it comes in the form of purchasing renewable energy credits to their local utility companies use to drive out. In other cases, building trips to the renewable energy to go deeper, their biofuels, wind farms and their own investments in research and development of better technologies for renewable energies.
The Military: The Pentagon has ordered all branches of the U.S. military, reduce energy consumption by 2% on all bases and facilities in the exercise of alternative energy sources like wind and solar energy to brake.
The President: President Bush's Crawford ranch ranch is equipped with the latest and greatest in renewable energy and is completely out of the net.
The World: The Australian government is an explicit objective of the share of the production of electricity from renewable energy to 78% by the year 2010. The United Kingdom wants a little more modest, but still commendable shoot for 10% of only 3.6%, also by 2010.
The future: an inventor named Todd Livingstone has wrapped a patent on the technology currently pending for power in a flash, with 11 gigawatts per belt appreciated. A Canadian engineer thinks that his Atmospheric Vortex Engine the way to tame a funnel cloud (also known as Tornado) is. The Manchester Bobber "is a patented new device to use the power of the up and down motion of waves.
Floating wind turbines. The force of air pressure differences between geographically distant cities. Semi-transparent photovoltaic window glass as used in office buildings. MIT describes itself as "Manhattan Project" for new, renewable energy sources. Installing equipment in the off-highway ramps that the power of the vehicles brakes. Energy from trees downed in hurricanes.
And if we look down the horizon, what can we see? Perhaps the next big thing to Focus Fusion, a technology for production of new zero-emission power plants the size of the gas stations. Perhaps it is Blackligh Power, a technology, the power of particles called "hydrinos" which are even smaller than atoms of hydrogen even armor. Or perhaps the electromagnetic energy. For renewable energy trends, we have in store for us next, there is one thing we can all expect: If the demand for these types of renewable energy continues its steady increase, funds for research and development into new and better ways to use renewable energy will also increase, to a more efficient and affordable energy alternatives for us all.