RenewableEnergyWorld.com's Top 10 Most Commented Articles of 2012

Renewable Energy World Editors
December 27, 2012 | 2 Comments

2012 has been a year filled with controversial topics and interesting advancements from the trade case to the presidential election, and each development spurred heated conversation in those involved in the renewable industry. Check out the top 10 most commented articles on RenewableEnergyWorld.com in 2012 -- don't be shy, lend your own voice to the conversation!

The 9th Most Commented Article of 2012:

Foreign Dominance of U.S. Clean Energy Market Spells Trouble for America

by Jennifer Runyon, Managing Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com

If you are a small player in the U.S. clean energy market, you are having a harder and harder time finding capital to continue to fund your business, despite that fact that your domestic market is seen as the one with the largest potential for growth. So what do you do? According to Third Way, a political think tank, you look to foreign investors.

In its latest report, Fire Sale: The End of American Ownership of Clean Energy , the self-proclaimed "moderate" organization points out that American investment in clean energy is at an all time low, all the while foreign investment in the new energy economy is increasing. The government has curtailed its investment in the sector. In its report, Third Way points out, “by 2014, federal clean tech investment is expected to drop 75%, from $44.3 billion in 2009 to $11.0 billion.” The organization expects the government’s dwindling support to lead to decreased private sector support of renewable energy as well. And this lack of support is happening despite the fact that the clean energy industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S. for the past few years.

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2 Comments

Anumakonda Jagadeesh
December 28, 2012

Excellent collection of Articles on Renewable Energy published in 2012.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com

Harold Helsley
December 28, 2012

Meeting the World's Energy Challenge …

There is a solution to the 'energy need' for the world and the US without generating green house gases or nuclear fission radioactive problems.

It is RF Accelerator Driven Heavy Ion Fusion(HIF) as developed in the late 1970's at Argonne National Lab under the Department of Defense (DOD).

You never heard of it, ... right, few people have, ... as HIF was set aside by the US DOD (& DOE).

Fusion was first suggested as a potential power source in the late 1920's. The first fusion reaction on earth was demonstrated in 1952. Then shown potentially doable in a small size, in 1976-9, at Argonne National Lab and Hughes Lab. Since then it has been endorsed for 35 years by the scientific community "as the conservative way to go" to develop fusion as an energy generation source … but never funded, as it was and is still BIG (expensive, prolific and "benign"). In 1980, the world did not need a BIG new carbon fee source of energy, as it does now. Fusion was put on the shelf or attached to research projects to see if it could be done in small (MW-GW) size. Fusion cannot be done small and be economical. Data suggests that fusion can produce 5 to 7 cents kWh electricity, $3.20 per/gal fuel, and $0.002 per gallon for potable water, all needed today and at a very reasonable unit price.

RF accelerator driven fusion should be our showcase national energy project, but this process seems to be totally unknown. It does not have the support of the US Department of Energy and thus is unknown to politicians.

Politicians need to understand that RF accelerator driven fusion is a viable option for the replacement of fossil fuel for energy generation, NOW.

RF accelerator driven fusion is a technique that has been endorsed by leading scientists throughout the world for the past 35 years and it is time it was implemented.

Visit www.fusionpowercorporation.com & Goggle Tech Talk "Heavy Ion Fusion" and YouTube "StarPower for Tomorrow"

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