The US is #1 in the number of kWh's produced by the included renewable energy sources but the environazis had to throw in the dummy figures for the EU-27 which skews the rankings and averages because some of those member-states are listed seperately as well. Anything but give credit where credit is due.
The rankings should have dictated the order of the graph; the US kWh's produced is more than twice those produced by Germany, almost double the produced kWh's for China, and 30 times the amount produced by Brazil. And the comparitive production by Spain, Portugal, Iceland and New Zealand is in total less than the US produces annually.
NIMBY rules the limousine-liberals that won't allow wind power around their communities (see Massachusetts) and in fact many PC-enviros argue against it because a few birds get whacked by a turbine blade very, very rarely. They don't use the same argument for protesting against all aircraft usage which kills hundreds-of-thousands of birds every year. It is a ruse to NIMBY.
Why doesn't the list include hydroelectric power which is also a renewable energy source? Because it is also verboten by the environazis. Hydroelectric power is not politically-correct. And the US has a ton of it too and it would make the US look too good in the rankings; and we know they don't deserve it!
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What about hydroelectric?
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Love Green = Blame America for not Being #1
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Innovations Into the Future
Wind and solar have done their job and locked renewables into the market place, but to really raise those 'overall electricity production' numbers from renewables, countries need to embrace more of the innovations gaining momentum every day.
A long established form that is just starting to gain a foothold int he market is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). It creates an endless flow of power from the temperature difference in shallow an deep water. It is emission free, works 24/7/365, and is affordable. Plus, the only byproduct of an OTEC system is millions of gallons of clean drinking water.
OTEC is on it's way to coastal regions around the world, and could drastically cut fossil fuel dependency for millions.
To see more on how OTEC works, and the people making it happen check out the On Project.
http://www.theonproject.org/otec/?utm_source=smartplanet&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=mscomment
A long established form that is just starting to gain a foothold int he market is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). It creates an endless flow of power from the temperature difference in shallow an deep water. It is emission free, works 24/7/365, and is affordable. Plus, the only byproduct of an OTEC system is millions of gallons of clean drinking water.
OTEC is on it's way to coastal regions around the world, and could drastically cut fossil fuel dependency for millions.
To see more on how OTEC works, and the people making it happen check out the On Project.
http://www.theonproject.org/otec/?utm_source=smartplanet&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=mscomment
Posted by MStraub
13th Jun 2012
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Percent created is a function of amount used.
As long as people keep building stupid power consuming items like the milk maid the US will always use far more power than it will ever create from renewable sources.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/milkmaid-replaces-the-milk-sniff-test-with-technology/6808?tag=search-river
If every American eliminated stupid power vampires like this I bet the power consumption in the US would drop a few percent.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/milkmaid-replaces-the-milk-sniff-test-with-technology/6808?tag=search-river
If every American eliminated stupid power vampires like this I bet the power consumption in the US would drop a few percent.
Posted by Hates Idiots
14th Jun 2012
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What about hydroelectric?
It seems silly to rank countries on renewable energy without including the original and still by far most significant source of renewable energy, hydroelectric generation. Canada generates over 60% of its electricity this way.
Posted by Mike.mccullough
15th Jun 2012