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Report back from Energy Solutions Expo

11AM ON 20/11/2008
BY Daily Dose

Green EarthBy Chris Kearns:

The U.S. is facing one of its worst economic crises in decades, and as the investment, real estate, and automotive industries collapse, it appears that there’s no easy way to turn things around. There is however, a legitimate solution to fixing our ailing economy. That is through an investment in renewable energy.

Environment Rhode Island recently released their report called Renewing America: A Blueprint for Economic Recovery. The report says that the 21st century U.S. economy can become a clean energy-driven economy. It will create millions of jobs in renewable energy, while creating energy independence, and in the process save billions of dollars, instead of sending it to oil companies and foreign nations. Here are some of the key facts from the report:

  • The space available on America’s rooftops alone could host enough solar panels to provide and meet about 70 percent of our current electricity needs.
  • America’s Atlantic, Pacific and Great Lakes coastlines could host enough wind turbines to nearly match the capacity of all of America’s current electricity generators combined.
  • Geothermal energy, heat from below the earth’s surface, has the potential to meet about half the total electricity production capacity in the United States today.
  • The wind blowing over just five U.S. states – North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana and Texas – could produce enough electricity to power the entire United States.

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