Your Questions About Green Living

If you where asked to invent an alternative energy company and create a corporate id for it. What would you do?

I am doing this for school, I have a rough idea of what I want to do, I want to hear any other ideas, thanks.
Hi thanks for the answer, but I was thinking more along the lines of actual renewable energy methods I agree that you have to wade though the information [excusey the pun] But I do think overall the movement is good, sometimes you need extreme action or radicalism to change minds.

Ive decided to model my company on Iberdola, they are the 5 largest energy producer in the europe and they just do renewable! Wind, Solar, Geo-thermal that works and actually provide millions with cleaner energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberdrola

Alternative Energy?

I would like to know if I can use a generator or car batteries or any other energy to light my small earthbag home other than solar or wind energy. Solar and wind energy is to expensive are there any other low cost ways to power my home? It has to be off-grid meaning not connected to a utility company.
gggsbaby – what are you talking about?

Why is President Bush trying to increase oil production instead of alternative energy?

Drilling off all of our coastline? A thinking leader should consider alternative options. I see nothing but greed in this plan. As our communities are destroyed, oil prices won’t decrease in price. The oil companies will keep getting richer.

He really scares me.

Are you interested in wind and solar energy for your home and what do you think of loan companies for?

homeowners who want to install small wind turbines and solar panels on their home?

Before the Conservatives go rambling on about government subsidies, this is something that’s happening in the private sector. The deals being offered allow homeowners (who can show that they are in good standing with their payments and not in an underwater mortgage) to take out loans (interest rates are similar to what you’d get for a car loan) for the installation of wind and solar panels on their homes. In order to qualify the homeowners have to purchase units that are pre-approved (durability issues – the loan issuers don’t want people purchasing equipment that’s cheaply made and likely to break) so there’s a preferred list of equipment providers whose items you can get the loans for. The reason this is happening is that with energy companies trying to bleed the country dry and continuously raising rates, and with the cost of components for residential wind and solar installations falling rapidly, we are reaching the point where a home wind turbine or solar panel installation can pay for itself in less than 7 years-which is the maximum term available for one of these loans.

Do you have a personal interest in alternative energy and if you could get a $7000 loan at 5.5% interest on a 7 year term to install a wind turbine or solar panels on your property would you consider that deal?
@ Vanessa – explain to me how you think a residential wind turbine is “terrible for the environment”. They’re popping up all over where I live – the ones that are on 30 to 40 foot towers with a blade-span of six to eight feet. People put those plastic owls on them just like they do with large picture windows to prevent bird strikes.

Small wind turbines do not damage the environment.
@ Barry – wind in the North, Solar in the South.

I am looking for an Australian company that is involved in the field of alternative energy?

The company needs to be registered in Australia and has a share value of approximately $Au10 cents or under.