A recent report from the European Union suggests that renewable sources of energy could be providing up to 40% of the world’s required energy by 2050.
From the article – “According to Professor Peter Lund from the Advanced Energy Systems of the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) in Finland, who presented the research ahead of the congress ‘Renewable Energies: How Far Can They Take Us?’, the findings show that ‘with global political support and financial investment, previous notions that the potential for renewables was in some way limited to a negligible fraction of world demand were wrong’. Recognising and prioritising the value of renewable energy technologies would effectively fuel their potential to provide the world with the energy it needs, he remarked.”
Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar hot water panels in 1979 in an effort to spur a move toward renewable energy and independence from foreign energy sources. The panels were removed by the Reagan administration, and Google tracked the panels to Unity College and now have one of the panels on display at their Washington, D.C. office.
Google is making a strong commitment to a clean energy future, and this effort is one of many to raise awareness of what American enginuity might achieve. Read more about Google’s effort here.
