Renewable Energy Is Taking Over. Here’s How You Can Help

Many people have started investing in renewable energy development and it is seen as the greatest investment of the 21st century. Renewable energy is a big market and many big investors are interested in getting a large slice of the pie and helping the environment at the same time.

Big investors include Richard Branson who is investing $3 billion in order for scientists to find renewable energy sources that will help the world stop using fossil fuels.

Big companies have also invested in renewable energy development and want to bring about change. This includes Wal-Mart, GE and Google. Google has actually invested in a 1.6 MW PV system at its headquarters that offset about 30% of the buildings normal electricity consumption.

You can play your part in renewable energy development by doing all you can to integrate solar and wind power in your home. You could consider buying outdoor solar lights and install a solar hot water system in your house.

You can read up about all the future developments in renewable energy and solar power, and talk to your energy provider to find out how you can cut down on your fossil fuel use and install technologies that use renewable energy.

Renewable energy is a real answer to the many problems that the world faces in terms of running out of resources and pollution. Of all the books you can purchase or hire from the library, renewable energy projects are the most popular subjects, especially with children.

Every environmentalist and climatologist wants us to scale down the fossil fuel we use because they’re so damaging to the environment.

Public outrage is blowing up over the damage done to the environment from fossil fuel use. You’ll understand why if you’ve watched Al Gore’s documentary `An Inconvenient Truth’ and watched the recent climate strikes all over the world.

We need to close down fossil fuel plants too because they release several billion tons of carbon dioxide into the year every year, and this has a direct effect on global warming and climate change.

The Indian government has recently shifted from coal to cleaner, renewable sources, most notably solar power, and is leading the way in a renewable energy revolution.

The largest coal mining company in the world, Coal India, which produces around 82 per cent of India’s coal, has announced it will close 37 mines because they are no longer economically viable.

If climate change continues at the rate it is going plant and animal species will be wiped out, massive heat waves will occur killing thousands of people, and parts of the polar ice caps will melt.

There are a number of renewable energy projects that you could look into doing if you want to play a part in making the environment better.

Some renewable energy projects you could consider doing are building a windmill or building a solar collector. These DIY projects will be good for starting projects to learn about renewable energy and teach your kids ways to protect the environment.

It is actually pretty easy to find out how to build a windmill or a DIY evacuated tube solar water heater because they are very simple projects and you can find a lot of information about them online.

Wind power has been used as a source of energy for many centuries — using windmills for grinding grain in Egypt and pumping water in China.

However, the first windmills that used wind energy were the turbines used in Europe in the middle of the 20th century. The windmills of yesteryear work on a similar principle to the wind turbines used on wind farms today.

Just as is the case with solar power, wind power is inexhaustible as we’re never going to run out of wind. The World Energy Council noted that if we can harvest just 1% of the wind energy available to us, we could supply all of the word’s electrical needs.

Wind energy is free and the only cost involved is buying land and setting up wind farms, or installing wind turbines in your own back yard. The only problem with using wind energy is that the wind farms need to be in places where the wind is at its strongest.

Many of the biggest wind farms are in places where strong winds frequent such as in Wales and Scotland, and in the state of North Dakota in the United States. Germany has more installed wind capacity than all of the United States and Europe is the superpower in the wind industry.

Currently, many governments offer incentives and subsidies for installing renewable energy technology. State incentives have actually played a big part in encouraging people to install small wind turbines and solar energy systems in their homes.

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