Infographic: The History of Renewable Energy

With its myriad white papers, webinars, radio interviews, blog posts, and short videos, 2GreenEnergy.com, provides those who are interested with an effective and convenient starting place. In particular, Craig Shields, author of Amazon #1 best-selling energy book, RENEWABLE ENERGY - FACTS & FANTASIES, and editor of 2GreenEnergy.com, has provided a very simple infographic of THE HISTORY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY.  Whether one may be a busy executive who just needs a 2-minute overview or an interested citizen trying to understand the fundamentals of a complex dilemma, the following graphic provides the big picture as simply as possible.

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Shields notes, “Renewable energy is more and more often in the news, but it’s often mired in controversy.  Can it be affordable?  Why are solar energy companies struggling financially?  Are there powerful vested industries that do not want competition to their world domination of providing global energy by way of oil?”  These are good questions, to be sure, but Shields suggests that we ask ourselves even more basic ones: What are the basic renewable energy resources themselves?  And how long have they been around?

Most of what we call “renewable energy” comes directly or indirectly from the sun, derived from the fact that the Earth receives 6000 times more energy every day than all seven billion of us consume. And believe it or not, mankind has been attempting to harness this energy for quite a while.  This all becomes clear in (link). 

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