Renewable Energy Policy

  • Any renewable energy policy needs to address the differences in the way renewable energy and fossil fuels are treated by the government

  • Renewable energy financing needs to become widely available to qualified individuals and companies

  • Green certificates can play a big part in any renewable energy policy



The current renewable energy policy is not effective, and it has many flaws. There are many ideas on what the policy should include, to make it more effective and efficient. Renewable energy is a clean energy which minimizes the pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that are released. It is also renewable, which means that it will not run out. Renewable energy financing is not very abundant right now, but this may soon change. Some believe that green certificates are the answer, while others believe all fossil fuel use should be eliminated.

Idea #1: Level The Playing Field Between Renewable Energy Sources And Fossil Fuels

The first step towards switching to a renewable energy policy that works is to stop giving preferential treatment and subsidies from the government to fossil fuel companies, like the big oil companies. The federal government gives millions and billions of dollars each year to big oil companies, and this must stop. Even when gasoline and oil were at all time highs and the oil companies made record profits they still accepted money from the government. Start offering federal government help with renewable energy sources and take away these subsidies for harmful fossil fuel companies.

Idea #2: Make More Sources Of Renewable Energy Financing Available

Renewable energy financing in this tough economy may be difficult or even impossible to find, and this can lead to these projects that are not developed due to a lack of resources. The government should set up a program to oversee and offer this financing to qualified companies and individuals, to help increase the renewable energy that is available for use. Making the move away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy is a good step in the right direction for the new renewable energy policy, and for an energy future we can all live with.

Idea #3: Use Green Certificates

Green certificates, also called renewable energy certificates, are certificates which are issued to show that the energy behind the certificate is from a renewable energy source. Even if a utility company does not have renewable power sources available, customers can still buy green certificates to help offset the energy used from these fossil fuel sources. There is no need to use an energy company which provides green energy to use green certificates, anyone can purchase them. These certificates encourage the production of renewable energy that is cleaner and better for the environment.

Idea #4: Create A Carbon Tax

A carbon tax is an important aspect of any renewable energy policy. As long as companies are allowed to pollute and release carbon emissions without paying a financial price it will always be cheaper to leave things as they are. A carbon tax will cause companies that release large amounts of carbon and pollution to pay a big penalty, and this will make it cheaper for these companies to switch to newer technology that minimizes carbon releases and pollution. This can go along with green certificates to ensure that a large percentage of the energy used in the country is from renewable sources.

Idea #5: Set A Specific Percentage Of Renewable Energy To Be Used

A renewable energy policy needs to have specific percentages set that specify what amount of energy used needs to come from renewable energy sources. This percentage should gradually increase each year until these are the only forms of energy used. By starting with a smaller percentage, like thirty five or forty percent, the costs are not overwhelming and renewable energy can be phased in. Add between one and five percent as the requirement for each successive year, to phase out fossil fuels and phase in renewable energy sources.

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2 Responses to “5 Ideas on How We Should Build Our Renewable Energy Policy”

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    Marat Says:

    Proposal for cooperation!

    I have invented a two-stroke engines without an exhaust (due to recycling of water), water consumption and fuel hundreds of times smaller than current steam turbines for a power unit, stronger at times than the internal combustion engine, able to rotate a generator for electrical current for months without refueling, with an efficiency of not less than 90% and it does not create noise at the expense of their full integrity
    They can be created by any given power and developed speed, they are not combustion, there is no miraculous transformation of water into hydrogen as a fuel for combustion, all the processes occurring within the known, safe, water reserve tank does not freeze in the winter (due to the participation in the reserve tank vapor condensation for the working supply engine), because the engine is ecologically perfect. Heating water compressor that produces a given pressure in the cylinders 500 and higher atmospheres produced salt thermal generator that was invented recently by Italian engineers, food salt or sea salt and one-time heating of an electric current running from one filling 14t hours. The discovery already has a patent.
    When docking a powerful engine with an electric generator and installing it for example in a car, it becomes not only environmentally perfect, but it can be used as a current generator in the home, your own business and to generate additional income, so that it becomes self-sustaining. Due to its high power and low cost of fuel and heating element, such installation will pay off within months. . Alternative, simple, reliable and environmentally sound technology in general deserves attention, if they are several times more profitable in the design, construction and operation.
    For a small upgrade, the engine will be a powerful pump, or compressor, and will create a strong vacuum on the suction inlet and a lot of pressure at the outlet, the tightness of the power unit, and an efficient jet engine that runs both in water and in the atmosphere.

    Warning:
    The motor is not afraid of dust emissions from volcanoes, flying birds and acid rain, hail in the air and fish with debris in the water!

    This means that not only can it replace the atomic power units on the surface and submarine fleet, and jet environmentally dirty in aviation, they are much cheaper and more efficient and out of competition. In space, can work fine version of the engine described earlier, creating an abundance of electricity and heat through an efficient and leak-proof design. Any source of water such as found on Mars, the ice can be a source of gas stations engine and generate electricity by hydrogen and oxygen for the needs of the crew and refuel jet hydrogen engines, propelling the spacecraft into space discharged.
    I will not deal with the hassle of patenting my inventions, I will create drawings and design of production models, but the trick and the main principle of the entire line of engines, or how many people ask me – yes or prototype? Yes, he has long existed, you have used them, so that the tricks in order to prove the correctness of my approach to the super Motors with the prototype I can show you in any hardware store of America! So everything is simple and well known.
    In addition to the salt of the thermal generator, all the technology incorporated by me into their inventions, it’s old, long-tested and brought to the standard for hundreds of years, I just see the things that have not been seen by hundreds of engineers and scientists, and such is the intrigue of life!
    Create a prototype of any engine of my design, with current computer capabilities of design within weeks, I say and you know it, to develop a production engine does not need serious investment, and demand for such products as a simple average American, who dreamed of iron cow, which rolls, and gives milk “and the military, who have a safe, quiet engine, leaving no trace of the heat and moving underwater at speeds of flying a passenger jet therefore not vulnerable to the current slow-speed torpedoes will cause salivation, and a desperate desire .
    My oldest son has been living in Los Angeles for 10 years, he recently legalized, and now has become an American citizen, so this is the answer to your question of why I offer my design to America
    Now the essence of my proposal, and what kind of cooperation, I propose: You find an investor or invest yourselves, construct, patent, guarding the secret designs, doing an advertising campaign and become the owner of that super technology.
    This royalty and profit share from the sale of patent rights to third parties and states will guarantee you. I documented in the form of a contract, certified and insured, and nothing more, all profits from sales of the product are yours! So you get the idea and sustained over the years the design range of engines on the water in the lease, gift, but under the above guarantees, very generous on my part and promising enormous benefits and breakthrough change in quality of life and well-being and security of all Americans, including My son!
    I am Babamuratov Marat Akhmedovich, hydraulic engineer, 56 years old; I graduated in 1975 from Tashkent, the Order of Red Banner of Labor Institute of Railway Engineers. Languages spoken – Russian. My father had four USSR State Prize as the innovator, so that inventions are our family business. I live in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Phones for communication (99871) 2564152 or (99871) 2527007, e-mail: ppvin@atlon.ccc.uz
    OR…

    Greetings gentlemen automakers!

    His proposal for the joint creation of a steam engine of the new generation, without burning anything in it and therefore no emissions, obviously, I’m shocked. So you propose his invention in a simplified, but no less effective form. Make a beautiful motor, just a good powerplant, respecting existing in the world motor industry tradition of gasoline or other fuel. It will not sound so shocking, but my device will increase the engine power and reduce its fuel consumption by several times, without changing the volume of cylinders. In fact it has no analogues mounted air compressor, which creates pressure at the time of compression of air fuel mixture to 300 atmospheres and above, working synchronously with the engine, while powerful, innovative electrical generator, which works by heating it with hot exhaust gases of the engine.
    Availability of additional equipment that does not require fuel, with its ability to make car engines more economical and more powerful. This will allow the expense of electricity produced, and replacing all the bearings of the car on grease, which are still used only in aircraft, automobile spare parts from friction by 100%. And it does not require major investment, and most offered me technologies are well known and widely used. The savings from the application of the oil system and obsolete types of electric generators, will be for you much more than development costs and the cost of the proposed unit to me and comprehensive redesign the car, while increasing its consumer quality and reduce costs for its very production. Terms of transfer you to a detailed description of the entire reconstruction of the car and I invented the unit remain the same, before their lease by a written guarantee of your company. All patents for inventions will be yours, I claim only a small part of them, and only upon receipt of your actual earnings of its introduction into production. I have no desire to spend years running around the patent offices, wasting time, and that all patenting and designing and testing took place in parallel, and the unit was in production at an early date.
    If conditions himself set no interest to you, please simply reply to this message!

    Hydraulic engineer from Tashkent Babamuratov Marat Akhmedovich

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    Caresse Says:

    Good for people to know.

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