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Perhaps as an aide to ——

Agricultural scientists.
Some types of
scientists work to improve agriculture.
Crop scientists study the genetic breeding
and management of field crops. Soil sci-
entists use soil physics, soil chemistry,
and soil microbiology to enhance soil fer-
tility and the growth of plants. Agrono-
mists develop practical applications for
discoveries in plant and soil science to
produce high quality food.
Other scientists
. There are many other
branches of science. Geologists study the
history and composition of our planet, in-
cluding volcanoes and earthquakes.
Oceanographers study the oceans and
their movements. Meteorologists study
the atmosphere, and some make weather
predictions. Astronomers study the uni-
verse, trying to gain knowledge about the
stars, planets, and galaxies.

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Biofuels, Biomass, Geothermal, Solar power, Tidal power, Wave power, Wind power are other types of renewable energy. So, the most renewable energy source is Hydro power.

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So you want us to predict the future for you?

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A renewable energy source is one that naturally replenishes itself as it is consumed. Solar energy, for example, will continue to make its way to us for as long as the sun continues to burn, whether we harness it or not. The same could be said about wind, hydro, biomass, etc. (though these are really just indirect forms of solar energy – without the sun, there would be no wind, the water cycle would not function, and plant life would not grow). The only other renewable energy input that the earth sees as a whole is geothermal – heat energy from its own core (though this will also eventually run out).

Another possible example of a renewable energy source could be landfill gas, though this is debatable. As long as humans continue to create a huge amount of organic waste, I guess, then we should be able to continue capturing methane from it.

A non-renewable source, on the other hand, will not be replenished once it is used. Fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal), for example, are considered non-renewable, because they took millions of years to form. Once a barrel of oil is brought up from the earth and burned, it will not be replenished for a long, long time.

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Republicans feed their Big Oil Billionaires first – this is their only real rule. The rest of their story is bullsh*t.

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Brazil – Sugar based ethanol. Next question.

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The The Energy Office of Michigan website linked below offers tons of resources on “topics such as wind, solar or biomass energy, energy technology resources, and financial incentives that may be available to assist those interested in pursuing energy efficiency or renewable energy systems” in the state of Michigan.

Hope you find it useful.

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If he was supporting a referendum or a official endorsement of alternative energy…fine.

What he wants to do (and it’s in the Carbon Tax bill coming up in the legislature) is to create carbon credits and tax carbon dioxide outputs. This is a horrible idea that will cripple and kill vast sectors of our economy.

Let the free market address the oil crisis. When gas went up a few years ago…a huge leap in energy efficent cars hit the market. The private market works!

Lets keep government to watching our enemies and enacting diplomacy.

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Are you one of those nutzos who figure that if we’d have spent $3 trillion on alternative energy instead of $3 trillion in Iraq we’d be energy independent by now???

KEEP DREAMING!!!!!

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Carter had no Failed Energy policies. The 1970s Oil Embargo preceded his Administration. He wisely set forth new initiatives, that were, unfortunately, cancelled by Reagan.

Had we allowed Carter’s foresight to be followed through, we would be much more independent of foreign energy

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It’s 2 by a wide margin.

The synthetics sequester carbon because polymers are hydrocarbon based. They will last far longer than the hemp and required less energy to produce.

Like bio fuels hemp requires burning of carbon based fuels as a part of the cultivation process.

Transportation is just slightly in favor of the synthetics because bulk is more energy efficient than the individual shipping by UPS. Still you are driving to the store.

Packaging is another plus for the synthetics. If the hemp come in kraft paper corrugated box that is very eco non friendly.

The buying carbon offsets or donating to an eco charity puts the synthetics way, way, way over the top

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Check out all the list of available eco friendly shoes. And Read what users says about it.
Http://www.sustainlane.com/green-products/_organic-shoes-sport-comfort

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I think we should give Fergie a chance to prove herself. She’s indeed has a great fashion taste, i think she can make a trendy shoe line, but for being an eco-friendly, well, we’ll just have to wait for it.

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Hi im aerobball1 I thin k you should try I place called shoe show thats were I get eco-friendly shoes at..but i do no live in New York or New Jersey so that is my suggestion

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“Simple” shoes…look them up on google, they have their own site…they have hemp shoes and the bottoms are recycled tires. Im not sure what you define as stoop-id looking shoes though 😉

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Maybe the Greenhouse Effect, and therefore global warming? That seems to be very pertinent to today’s environmental issues

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Environmental issues have been a concern for hundreds of years in different forms and in different nations. The U.S. Started to pass legislation acts in 1972. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) was created in 1970. In the 1970s the public begin to take note of environmental issues. Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth started in the early 1970s. Earth Day started in the 1970s. In the 1960s is when environmental issues started to come into light in the United States, specifically air pollution and oil spills. From what I remember when I was young in the 1980s, environmental issues emerged more in the media in the late 80s. The Exxon Valdez spill was big news in 1989. The other issues that I remember were acid rain and air pollution, more specifically “NOx emission.” Environmental issues were a concern in the in the early 80s but it was not until the media started to cover more and more stories did it become a big concern. The media started to cover court cases covering environmental legal issues. “In the early 1980s, environmental justice emerged as a concept in the United States, fueled by a mounting disdain within Black, Hispanic and indigenous communities that were subject to hazardous and polluting industries located predominantly in their neighborhoods.[5] This prompted the launch of the Environmental justice movement which adopted a civil rights and social justice approach to environmental justice [6] and grew organically from dozens, even hundreds, of local struggles, events and a variety of other social movements.” (Wiki) In the late 80s and early 90s more people were involved and voiced their opinions on environmental issues.Today I hear more about environmental issues than ever before, especially about global warming effect.

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First, I’d ask myself what makes Florida unique in their approach to waste management. One thing pops to mind – the depth to groundwater. I think Florida generally has groundwater very close to the surface in much of the state. Therefore, any kind of land disposal practices, or recycling activities that could potentially release to the ground can have a dramatic impact on water quality.

Another thing about Florida that comes to mind, is that it has a lot of shoreline, hence many boaters. One little known aspect of this – at least to many people, is that boats of a certain size are required to carry safety flares. Safety flares, by law, have a shelf life, after which the flares must be replaced. Often the flares being replaced are ok to use as flares, but many boaters dispose of them inappropriately. That’s why many many thousands of flares wind up dumped in the water. Florida is one state that has developed on a county-by-county basis a way to manage these out of date flares. They get collected and burned in burn units, which just vent the emissions to the air. This can be an air problem.

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Extreme environmentalism was spawned from socialists and communists intent on changing the way we live our lives.

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I’m not a young person but the answer to your question is clearly money and politics. Our prime minister and many of his MPs are from Alberta which gets about half its income from the tar sands. No way they are ever going to seriously slow the booming expansion going on up north. All politicians to pay lip service to environmental issues but they duck for cover if votes are threatened. Take the cruel Canadian commercial seal hunt carried out by non-native Newfoundlands every spring. It involves the savage slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups for their skins and has been condemned around the world. Well, every single member of parliament supports it because they’re all afraid of losing votes in Atlantic Canada. I can’t imagine many of them picking up a club and crushing a baby seals’ skull themselves, but they’ll happily subsidize others doing so if it gets them a few votes. Our current politicians won’t be around when the real environmental consequences swing back at us and they know it. Only the next few years of profit and power matter to them.

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These are results of the LEADERSHIP of a Community Organizer who never HOLDS a real JOB nor RUNS a real business in the REAL WORLD.

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Good for you! If you like to actually work on and reinvent the renewable technological devices yourself, you should get into electrical engineering in order to understand how everything works in an electrical system and further invent ways to improve it. You always can start a business later one after you have some good working experience with the renewable energy products.

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Same as always…They live in a fantasy world where if you just want something to happen, then it does…Then they wake up after we make them…

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Any university worth attending can answer questions about the job market for their students.

Ask them.

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It can’t – it has nothing to do with the supply of money and credit, which is the primary cause of economic bubbles.

Oil didn’t go over $140/bbl because of anything structural to the oil industry – oil prices spiked for the same reason that all commodity prices (gold, platinum, palladium, copper, etc…) spiked: the dramatic increase in the supply of money and credit, as the Fed maintained historically low interest rate targets and Bush kept raising spending to pay for two wars, a new Cabinet Dept., a new entitlement program and increases in domestic spending. Now Obama is increasing that spending by an order of magnitude and the Fed has cut rates even further. That is why commodity prices are coming back even though economic activity is not.

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I don’t completely understand what you’re asking, but here’s my point of view:

Clinton wanted to pass a BTU tax of $16/month per resident. This tax was essentially an emissions tax. It wasn’t passed. Looking back on it, only a decade later, it would have been a brilliant policy.

If we don’t implement sustainable policies and developments, we’ll be looking back on the past and regretting it. I don’t want to be on my asthma-related death bed feeling guilty for not doing something to change the outcome of the future.

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You cannot apply the (macro-level) concept of sustainable development to an industry (which is a micro-level entity).

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— sustainable fishing:
fishing with nets that have holes large enough to allow baby fish to escape yet catch adult fish. This allows the babies to grow old, propcreate and be caught at a later time.

— irreversable fishing:
fishing with nets that do not have holes large enough. Everything in its wake is caught and the fish eventually die out.

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Sustainable development is shorthand for…continuing to make a profit out of fuc*ing up the planet.

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I think that the media puts to much emphasis on going green now, and making it seem as if we do it will solve all our problems in the next decade, I’m not saying we shouldn’t, because we defiantly need to protect the environment, but I don’t believe its a fragile to be shattered by a hundred or so years of extreme carbon emissions, so, yeah, protect the environment, drive a hybrid, don’t pollute, but don’t get worked into a frenzy by the media over there theory of were all gonna die, because if the ecosystem collapses, it wont be in our life time.

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You would have to count the total energy cost over the life of the bridge. As well as the safety issues.

As well as the effect on the local environment.

Difficult call. On balance, the concrete bridge would win because of its longevity. Unless you think that dead humans and decaying wood are good for the environment.

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Try out Nature’s Organics http://www.naturesorganics.com.au/ they have some personal care and home cleaning products. Check a smaller health food store or environmental shop and the health food/speciality aisle of your supermarket if there is one. Look for things that say “biodegradable, non-toxic, environmentally safe”. Hope that helps some.

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Yes, but it does not work well in my opinion.
You need a penatrating sealer to keep stains out of the stone and on the surface.
I use Miracle Sealants for polished granite.
To see if you need to seal, throw water across the tops, if it beads up it is ok, if it absorbs into the stone and get dark, sealit again .

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Try this reliable clothes online shop: www.NikeRotterdam.com

I bought my clothes from them.

Inexpensive, stylish and of good quality

Free shipping. Very cute!! You should try.

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All companies are Pseudo Eco Friendly
They become Eco Friendly just to cut cost or to show that they are eco friendly
Had they been real ECO friendly they would have given incentive to customer when they go for Eco friendly things.
For example Dell stopped Shipping User Manual in Paper form in 2005 to save money but did not share the benefit of reducing the cost with the customer.

These guys just do it to save money. Eco friendly is to fool common man to make them feel that if they don’t get a printed manual its ok coz its saving the environmentt.

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Thousands! The poor working fools that are voting for him, are going to get hit big time. Obama is getting big bucks from the liberals who are supporting him and he will have to pay them back, big time! The losers are people like me who did not vote for him.

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I know you’re not supposed to answer a question with a question, but my answer is, “Is the Pope Catholic?”

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If you read the Constitution, it isn’t. Nuff said.

Chas

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This work will fall on the traditional trades.

Plumbers. Electricians. HVACR(heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration) technicians. Auto/truck mechanics.

Degrees don’t hurt a thing. Any engineering degree or anything technical like mathematics, physics, chemistry, construction science…

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It is good that u r good in maths, that is important for engineers

I am Automation Engineer, works for automatising the Electrical Power Stations, which is known as Substation Automation. I did Electrical Engineering and my other collegues too.

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This is precisely what Lindsey Graham is talking about when he says we need to put a price on carbon.

“To jump-start nuclear power, wind and solar and the green economy, you’ve got to price carbon…How you do it is subject to discussion and open debate. But the idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you’re not serious about energy independence. The odd thing is you’ll never have energy independence until you clean up the air, and you’ll never clean up the air until you price carbon.”
http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/28/lindsey-graham-price-carbon-not-serious-about-energy-independence-clean-air/

“Every day we wait in this nation China is going to eat our lunch.”
http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/03/energy-only-bill-lindsey-graham-half-assed/

“my concern is that every day that we delay trying to find a price for carbon is a day that China uses to dominate the green economy….China has made a long-term strategic decision and they are going gang-busters.”
http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/31/lindsey-graham-price-for-carbon-china-dominate-the-green-economy-clean-energy-jobs/

The next technology boom is in green energy. The Chinese know it, most Europeans know it, and some Americans know it, but many don’t. If we don’t invest in the technology on par with China, as Graham says, they’re going to eat our lunch and dominate the green economy.

The west can still catch up, but only if we ramp up our investments in green tech.

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The air would be cleaner, the mountains in the Appalachians would not be blasted and shoved into the streams and valleys, and we wouldn’t need to fight wars in the middle east.

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Nobody can predict the movement of any stocks whether going up or coming down. Many of the market professionals use fundamental analysis of companies along with technical analysis like chartology, option movements and relative price strength of stocks.

There might be many people who think the same logic as yours and made investment in renewable energy companies. Consequently, some of these companies’ shares have gone up significantly where you might have to find a good spot to buy at certain time.

What you need to do is to study the company’s performance (revenues and earnings and their growth) in relation to the stock price. Also, look into the company’s financial condition (does it have a lot of debts?), market share of its products, product leadership, and earnings browth rates vs. Its competitors.

Since you will be investing your hard earned income, be very careful in doing the preliminary studies before investing. I recommend you also read a couple of books on investment.

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Money.

Lots of things are set up to use oil based products (cars, airplanes, etc), so it would cost a small fortune to switch it over. Third world countries have very little money. Countries that have more money don’t have enough money to do that.

Oil producing countries are very, very rich. They like their money.

Going green is sort of a progressive thing. It’s not something we can such “switch over to.” It will take some time.

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Some of those are going to be beyond your capabilities (geothermal generators)

What you need to understand is your systems share some basic components- the power generation portion- you can use a permanent magnet motor for this part. It works but is inefficient, but will work for your wind and hydro portion.

What is different is the driving mechanism- how are you harnessing the energy of your material source- air, water and making the mechanical connection to your common generator. If you have an RC aircraft propeller, there you ahve the means for harnessing wind- now how are you going to use something similar to harness the water energy? You might have to carve somethig from a block of wood. Your geothermal system will be similar, but you are not likely to be allowed to use live steam to drive a turbine blade in your classroom.

There is the geenral outline you sought. Now you have to apply the process of assembly and understanding your assembly.

To understand how a motor works and conversely your generator- you need to understand magnetism and how that makes the each work.

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Health insurance: AFL, PRU, MET

Alternative energy: FSYS, STP, PTEN

Pharmaceutical: TEVA, GILD, DNA

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I’m a big risk taker with several renewable energy penny stocks but I don’t like BCON. They haven’t filed any NASDAQ paperwork since 2008. In fact, they’re in danger of being de-listed.
And they’re not anywhere close to being profitable.

On the other hand, they’ve recently received over $40 million in funds from the DOE and equity issuance. They’re actually building a power plant in NY with this new technology. Both positive signs.

If you don’t mind the risk and understand you could lose your entire investment, BCON could be a good investment. But the odds are against it.

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Well, it looks like CLNE will be there shortly !!!

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GE electrifies the world by providing reliable, efficient products and services for the energy industry. We help businesses and authorities that generate, transmit or use electricity. We work in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy, as well as with renewable resources such as water and wind energy.
Http://www.gepower.com/home/index.htm

Americas Wind Energy Corporation (AWNE.OB) manufacturing and marketing of medium sized (500 – 1,000 megawatt (MW)) wind turbines for the North American market.

Babcock & Brown Wind Partners (BBWPF.PK) An Australian based specialized investment fund focused on the wind energy generation sector

Gamesa Corp. (GCTAF.PK) 18% of the world’s share of the wind turbine market. Based in Spain.

Kore Holdings (KORH.PK) A power provider and marketer of alternative energy from wind farms, hydro and distributed power facilities.

McKenzie Bay International Ltd. (MKBY.OB) Develops wind powered alternative energy systems.

Mass Megawatts Wind Power Inc. (MMGW.OB) Develops prototype wind energy production equipment.

NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. (NKW.V TSX Venture Exchange) Wind energy developer in the Haida Energy Field off the coast of British Columbia since 2001.

Scottish Power plc (SPI) A leading developer and operator of renewable energy in both the UK and the US. It is one of the largest providers of wind energy in the US.

Shear Wind Inc. (SWX.V Canadian Venture Exchange )Provider of wind-generated energy in Atlantic Canada.

Sea Breeze Power Corp. (SBX.V Canadian Venture Exchange ) Developer of large-scale windfarms and underwater electricity transmission lines in British Columbia.

Tower Tech Holdings Inc. (TWRT.OB) Involved in the engineering, manufacture, and sale of wind turbine extension towers and monopiles to the wind energy industry

Vector Wind Energy Inc. (VWE.V Canadian Venture Exchange ) developer of wind energy projects in Canada.

Vestas Wind Systems (VWSYF.PK) 34% of the world’s share of the wind turbine market. Based in Denmark.

U.S. Wind Farming (USWF.PK) The federal court in Chicago entered a Final Judgment as to U.S. Wind Farming on October 20, 2006.

Western Wind Energy (WNDEF.PK) Produces clean renewable electrical energy from over 500 wind turbine generators located in Tehachapi and San Gorgonio Pass (Palm Springs), California.

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