Renewable energy technologies are the main support for what we want to be a sustainable energy strategy. The USA is mainly concerned about the energy security issues targeting reducing the fossil fuel consumption for industrial or domestic use. We can access  any expensive source of energy.
We are specie  with deep concerns for our needs. So we use in our support the three generations of renewable technologies. Each one include different type of energy. Every type of energy have both a good side on the ecological scale and some sides effects like extra costs or affecting the nature in hidden ways. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently the great American president Barack Obama talked about his top issues for the next year concerning the energy policy. His intention, in the actual administration,  are not only to stimulate the safe extraction of natural gas from shale deposits, using the fracking method and safe drilling practices, but also to reduce the unemployment by creating more than 600, 000 jobs in this industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Sustainable energy. It’s a concept strongly related to energy efficienciy, suggesting that the modern society may choose to satisfy their needs using different types of energy that can provide a safe energy future with positive ecological implications. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2020 strategy for global energy affects The Scottish energy strategy to a large  scale. Important debates overcame lately to all government levels with a clear porpoise in reducing the energy dependency on traditional sources (coal, gas). One of the areas in discussions is to cutoff the financial support for large projects in biomass electricity generators, considered source of pollution for
the natural environment. Instead the Scottish political leaders plan to support another source of energy more reliable and cleaner, such as tidal energy. This proposal is part of the optimistic Scottish strategy in renewable energy industry with difficult tasks for 2020. The plan is to raise the number of ROCs to five per megawatt hour in tidal energy production.   Read the rest of this entry »

About daylight saving  many people share different opinions on how it affects the energy consumption.  As most of us already know, even the little ones, as closer we are to the north in the summer the days are longer than the nights in the winter. Lucky for them. They could sleep longer in the winter nights so the earth could rest a little  bit.  With a short overview on our modern  style of life, comparing with older times, centuries ago, we could easily see  that the modern city nights are not so energy saving after all. Read the rest of this entry »