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Uploaded by on Jan 16, 2008

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.
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  • @tuttt99

    Total horseshit, we could get 100% coverage easily from renewable energy. Just a matter of time and investment.

    Already 18% of the global coverage is from renewable sources, and that without even trying.

    Some countries get most of their power from renewables, including Iceland and Paraguay (100%), Norway (98%), Brazil (86%), Austria (62%), New Zealand (65%), and Sweden (54%).

    Come on dude, you have the internet, use it!

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Find renewable energy jobs at Envirocruit

  • 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!

  • @TheSaltyAdmiral

    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

  • 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!!!

  • @Thermospecialist

    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"

  • Eu is shit. Try looking at America's model.

  • @wyatt1the1ninja

    Is that because it's not producing light on the screen which consumes energy.

  • take iceland as an rolemodel it has 100% clean energy

  • Oh yeah like we didn't have this sort of technology 20 years ago...

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