Using the right technologies in the right places

Each region of the world is rich with natural resources that can be used as the source for energy. While water supplies are relatively abundant in the rivers and lakes in Europe and North America, in the deserts of the Middle East a liter of water sells for more than a liter of gasoline! In Saudi Arabia and the gulf region almost all water comes from desalination plants.

However, the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa are rich with sun, and the sun shines for more than 330 days in a year. Which makes sense to rely on solar energy to generate their electricity. Even though many environmentally conscientious Americans are installing solar energy cells on the roofs of their homes, it is really a futile exercise in squandering money and energy, in any of the states in the East and Midwest. The most cost effective and logical way is to take areas in the Arizona, Nevada and California deserts and plaster them with Solar cells. According to one study five square miles of solar cells in those regions is enough to supply the whole US with its electricity.

While it makes sense to use windmills to generate electricity in coastal areas, the most cost effective place to put them is in the planes of the Dakotas (North and South) since the wind there is strong year round. While nuclear plants made sense in the past to generate electricity, there is actually no need for them, any more since we can use the current available technologies in solar and wind and avoid the risks of Chernobyl’s and the nuclear waste problems.

Now we have technologies in all these area generating electricity out of nature’s powers; wind, solar, waves, gravity and even from the waste as in methane from manure and sewage.

A important show, and first of its kind is taking place in Washington, D.C. from March 3^rd through the 6^th. I ‘ll include here the participating companies for its importance and the links to get more information and register to attend.

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List All & Sort by Booth Number List All & Sort by Name Product Category - - - Select A Category - - -AssociationBioFuelsBiomass PowerBioProductsFinancial ServicesGeothermal EnergyGovernmentHydro Power Conventional HydroHydro Power KineticHydro Power OceanLegal ServicesOther Renewable Energy Development, equipment and technologyPublicationsPV Balance of SystemPV Cells & ModulesPV ManufacturingPV ServicesPV System IntegrationSolar DesignSolar Heating & CoolingSolar Thermal ElectricWind ComponentsWind ServicesWind Turbines 2 3 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W 2 1016 25x'25 3 420 3TIER A 651 A123Systems 727 Abengoa Solar 421, 203 ACORE 820 Advanced Green Technologies 430 Agricultural Research Service 343 AgriPower 1038 Alliance to Save Energy 744 AlterHeat Corp. LLC 749 American Biomass 1036 American Energy Partners, LLC 234 Anwell Technologies 725 Apricus Inc. 339 Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency 821 AWEA B 315 Babcock & Wilcox Company, The 547 Baylor University 543 BBI International, Inc 333 Beacon Power 629 Biofuels Business 447 Biotechnology Industry Organization 601 BP 112 Brookfield Power 437 Bureau of Indian Affairs C 133 C.I. Agent Solutions 742 CarbonTech, LLC 247 Center for Resource Solutions 307 Chevron 346 Chinese Wind Energy Association 1020 City of Austin - Austin Energy - Plug In Partners National Campaign 625 COMPETE 400 Concentrix, Konarka, Sunfilm (Good Energies Renewable Investor) 917 Conservation Services Group 843 Constellation Energy 147 Covanta Enegy Corporation D 127 Danish Hydrogen Community 439 Department of the Interior 621 Deutsche Bank 521 Devine Tarbell & Associates, Inc. 411 Dutchman Enterprises, LLC 743 Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. E 438 Economic Research Service/USDA 207 EcoPlus Inc. 837 EcoSecurities 832 Emerging Energy Research 645 Energies Direct LLC 306 Energy and Security Group 636 ENERGY GLOBE Foundation 838 ENFINITY Corporation 252 Entec Biogas USA, A Division of Reynolds, Inc. 643 Environmental Power / Microgy 135 enXco, Inc. an EDF-EN Company 538 EPV Solar, Inc. 527 Euromoney Energy Events 431 Export-Import Bank of the U. S. F 647 Fagen Inc. 628 Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc. 842 Fibrowatt LLC 426 Finavera Renewables Inc 1044 FuelCell Energy, Inc. G 301 G24 Innovations 801 GE 148 General Motors 734 Geothermal Energy Association 220, 222, 224, 226, 228, 321, 323, 325, 327, 329, 221 German Pavilion 733 Geysir Green Energy 642 GHD, Inc. 737 Glitnir Bank 639 Global Energy Network Institute 407 Global Solar Energy 824 Global Wind Energy Council/European Renewable Energy Council 237 Government of Canada 244 Greater Washington Initiative 230 Greek Pavilion 1014 Greentecno SA H 124 Hager Ernst LLC 245 Hart Energy Consulting 751 Hearth & Home Technologies 623 Hogan & Hartson LLP 624 Hurst Boiler Co. I 302 IBIS Associates, Inc. 115 Italian Trade Commission/Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea 1030 Itron, Inc. J 100 Japanese Pavilion 622 Johnson Controls, Inc. 745 Joule Industrial Contractors K 944 Karra Green Energy 537 KIRA, Inc. 909 Korean Pavilion L 211 Lake Erie Biofuels 1034 Leaf Clean Energy Company 949 Leviathan Energy 731 LPP Combustion, LLC 1048 Lumina Decision Systems, Inc. M 846 Massachusetts Office of Business Development 539 McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP 310 Menova Energy Inc. 847 Methane to Market Partnership 139 MGM International 1026 Michael Best & Friedrich LLP 937 Mid-Atlantic Grid Interactive Cars (MAGIC) 827 Munich Re Group N 951 NASA 931 National Biodiesel Board 626 National Green Energy Council 534 National Hydrogen Association 523 National Hydropower Association 942 National Renewable Energy Laboratory 728 Nebraska Public Power District 933 New Energy New York / E2TAC 1050 New Jersey's Clean Energy Program 205 New York Times 131 Nordic Environmental Technology Solutions 126 Nordic Five Tech 738 Normandeau Associates, Inc. 335 North American Clean Energy 611 NY Loves Clean Tech O 635 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy 337 Ocean Renewable Energy Group 145 Onset Computer Corp 238 Ontario Sustainable Energy Association & World Wind Energy Conference 2008 342 Orion Energy Systems 943 Ormat Technologies 644 Osborn & Barr 544 Overseas Private Investment Corporation P 532 Pace 143 Pepco Energy Services 850 Ponte di Archimede International S.p.A 443 Price BIOstock Services 633 PROGNOZ 509 PV Powered R 938 Radian Bioenergy Inc. 445 Range Fuels Inc. 427 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) 1032 Renewable Energy Focus 129 Renewables and Realities - Lolland CTF 915 Reznick Group 142 Royal Netherlands Embassy 726 RSMR Global Resources S 720 SatCon Power Systems 236 Sea Breeze Pacific Regional Transmission System, Inc 852 SkyBuilt Power 501 SkyFuel Inc. 839 SOL INC. 304 Solar Energy Industries Association 1024 Solar Integrated 250 SOLAR STIK 331 Solartech Systems Inc 730 Solel Solar Systems Ltd. 542 Solena Group, Inc. 925 SolFocus 637 Sopogy, Inc 401 Soprema/Pfister Energy 451 Southern Company 929 SPERC 927 Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. 747 Sriya Innovations, Inc. 921 Standard Solar 120 Statoil Hydro 500 Sterling Planet, Inc. 646 Stinger Ltd. LLP 123 Stockholm Environment Institute 721 Stoel Rives LLP 946 Sun Ovens International 830 SunPower Corporation 627 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP 125 SWAY 121 Swedish Trade Council 1042 Synteen Technical Fabrics T 546 Texmac Inc. 243 The Brazilian Sugar Cane Industry Association - UNICA 844 The Corporate Council on Africa 834 The National Theatre for Children 836 The Pennsylvania State University 736 ThermaSource 536 TRADE COMMISSION OF SPAIN 424 Troutman Sanders LLP U 631 U.S. Clean Heat & Power Association 308 U.S. Department of Energy 525 U.S. Solar Energy, Inc. 433 U.S. Trade and Development Agency 242 UNEP/DTIE SWERA Programme 1022 United Soybean Board 936 US Environmental Protection Agency 436 USDA - CSC 434 USDA Forest Service 432 USDA Rural Development 435 USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 428 USDA/FSA/Public Affairs 201 UTC Power V 901 Vestas 620 Virent Energy Systems, Inc. 732 Virginia Economic Development Partnership 923 Vision Consulting Associates, LLC 809, 1001 Volvo Group W 724 Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. 530 WindLogics 300 Windpower Monthly News Magazine 826 Winrock International 209 World Energy Solutions, Inc. 1028 World Resources Institute