Raising the share of renewable energy from 8.5% to 20% in the overall energy consumption is a necessary contribution to the global fight against climate change and towards better control over our energy dependence. The various uses of renewable energy are examined: electricity through wind and hydraulic energies; electricity or heat through geothermal and solar energies; electricity, heat, and biofuel coming from biomass. The EU is a world leader in the use and deployment of technologies that exploit renewable energy sources, providing over 350.000 jobs and an annual turn-over of € 30 billion. Download: ec.europa.eu. ec.europa.eu
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ozzirt says:
July 23, 2012 at 4:45 pm (UTC 0)
So,… because you think renewables can’t supply 100% of our present usage, that we should just stick our heads in the sand and wait until we completely run out of fossil fuels, then go back to living in the stone age?
JamesGCO says:
July 23, 2012 at 5:42 pm (UTC 0)
We discover a renewable, cost free source of energy = We have the key to discover everything.
With more energy we could make significant progress in the research of cryostasis, extended space travel, nanotechnology, advanced robotics, and much more. They all just need a plausible means of energy. Finding this energy unlocks the key to the gate of the future, and our further meaning to exist.
dussankm says:
July 23, 2012 at 6:17 pm (UTC 0)
Biogas production is an excellent option to manage organic wastes in industry though
SilentEagles says:
July 23, 2012 at 6:38 pm (UTC 0)
-Alternative & Renewable Energy:(Coal, Fossil Fuels, Ethanol Fuel, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Geothermal energy, Algae Fuel, Bio Fuel, Hydrogen, Biomass, Biological Hydrogen Production, Floating wind farms & Biogas digestion).
chadberry75 says:
July 23, 2012 at 7:01 pm (UTC 0)
back in the real world
TheMoo1231 says:
July 23, 2012 at 7:33 pm (UTC 0)
Yes but most people don’t know that because of corruption in our dept based society, and they don’t like free energy because the bankers won’t get profit out of it..
OffshoreGateway says:
July 23, 2012 at 7:39 pm (UTC 0)
I think all this is for sure a positive move forward & that for sure we should be moving even more forward. But remember, all this would not have been possible many years ago unless we encouraged such progress. Basically we are moving in the right direction. We can all argue on pace, and that’s a good thing, as it helps push things along. We are not a major institution, but we are doing our small part to support growth & contribute to such better development projects.
TaviYamato says:
July 23, 2012 at 7:50 pm (UTC 0)
biogas sucks make wind turbines and power electric cars
PelHeat says:
July 23, 2012 at 8:27 pm (UTC 0)
While carbon reduction targets and tackling climate change are important objectives, more focus should be given to the fact that these same strategies help countries become more energy independent. As a country becomes more energy independent it can limit fuel cost increases, this will have more of a measurable impact on peoples day-to-day lives.
Envirocruit says:
July 23, 2012 at 8:58 pm (UTC 0)
Find renewable energy jobs at Envirocruit
acsKing says:
July 23, 2012 at 9:07 pm (UTC 0)
hello — please i ask all green tech friends watch?v=U_KeokqQhBg
and support the Qu & Ark Foundation as they need a lot of support to implement their great green tech energy solutions. Thank you!
bogdandisco says:
July 23, 2012 at 9:19 pm (UTC 0)
This what You say is only partly true. In many countries there’s not enough reneawble energy to cover electricity needs. Only few countries like Norway or Dennmark have enough wind or water flow to depend on wind or hydraulic plants. In some countries like Poland, Germany or USA in few years there will be issue of returning to Nuclear Power Plants. The only true in energetics is that power plant must earn money, and then produce electricity and other things
futurenownetwork says:
July 23, 2012 at 9:34 pm (UTC 0)
Some people don’t have a clue! They hang their opinion on very little research. They here something on T.V. and it has to be true! I think renwable energy is the key to America’s financial progblems, economic problems, energy problems, and unemployment problem!!! We mus start investing in the future if we want there to be one!!!
nagmashot says:
July 23, 2012 at 9:37 pm (UTC 0)
what a silly comment…Sweden main energy supply is renewable energy (water power) 50,8% and 45% from nuclear power only 4% are fossil power (dropping since 2004)…
today 64% of swedish native are against nuclear power.. pretty much “envionmentalists”
Scattnam says:
July 23, 2012 at 9:59 pm (UTC 0)
Eu is shit. Try looking at America’s model.
Dimitri0809 says:
July 23, 2012 at 10:16 pm (UTC 0)
Is that because it’s not producing light on the screen which consumes energy.
123svenni says:
July 23, 2012 at 10:51 pm (UTC 0)
take iceland as an rolemodel it has 100% clean energy
wollin20 says:
July 23, 2012 at 11:00 pm (UTC 0)
It would be easier and more ecological not to build this new power plants…and reduce our energy consumption! Anyway, renewable energies without a way of stocking it is unaplicable on larger scale. Notice I am not speaking of river dams (which stock energy), but they also take their share in environmental destruction, not to mention, most modern countries have already exploited their whole capacity.
Dimitri0809 says:
July 23, 2012 at 11:42 pm (UTC 0)
Oh yeah like we didn’t have this sort of technology 20 years ago…
Thermospecialist says:
July 24, 2012 at 12:35 am (UTC 0)
In 1982 Sweden decided to replace its 12 nuclear reactors with renewable energy sources by 2012 . Today still 8 reactors are in operation, a few thousands windmills deliver ca 2% of the total need, while the rest is bought from coal powered plants in Denmark. Thank you “environmentalists” – learn about entropy instead and wake up! (you can do that in my channel on YouTube).
Thermospecialist says:
July 24, 2012 at 1:27 am (UTC 0)
Obviously, people in general have no idea of what dimensions are involved here. Could anyone imagine that 7 billion stone-age people would burn the last tree on Earth within 15 years from burning the first one? Read more about Spaceship Earth in my channel
Thermospecialist says:
July 24, 2012 at 2:06 am (UTC 0)
Blue perhaps?
Josephjoel3 says:
July 24, 2012 at 2:34 am (UTC 0)
Biofuel is useless. Just another cheap and deficient way to maintain status quo i. e. one person can afford it another cannot and prices will fluctuate so on and so forth.
carlospa22vlc says:
July 24, 2012 at 3:25 am (UTC 0)
that´s not true, that guy (saltyadmiral) is just talking about electricity, not primary energy which includes carburants plastics etc. so those countries use also oil and gas, renewable energy can be really around 30 % in those with 100% of renewable electricity, electricity is like 1/3 or 1/4 of a country´s energy needs
AtibbsSPARTAN says:
July 24, 2012 at 4:00 am (UTC 0)
Hydraulic energy is not green