Up to 15 percent of our potential wind energy resources are on Native American land, and the potential for solar energy is even higher.
Wind energy alone has the potential to generate in excess of 600 exajoules annually.
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The Department of Energy, as part of its efforts to promote clean energy, launched OpenEI.org, containing dozens of clean energy resources and data sets, including maps of worldwide solar and wind potential, information on climate zones, and energy best practices.
While presently only 0.03 TW of energy was extracted from wind in 2008, and there is room for a considerable expansion of this technology with relatively insignificant effects on the climate, any future expansion on a global scale must take account that the potential for extraction of wind energy is finite according to the nature of the Earth system.
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Secretary Sullivan explained that these two areas alone contain the potential for 9, 000 MW of wind energy.
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In the next decade meeting our existing renewables and efficiency targets would safely close any "energy gap" we might face and cut emissions, while leaving plenty of potential to expand clean energy solutions like wind, tidal and solar even further later.
The Atlantic Wind Connection would take place over at least 10 years and would have the potential of delivering 7, 000 megawatts of wind energy to states along the East Coast, some of which have set renewable portfolio standards.
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This is where nuclear power has remained essentially flat, even with efforts to increase the power factors at existing facilities, as compared to wind, solar, and other clean renewable sources of energy which have huge potential in expansion capacity and can easily meet demands if we support them on an equal basis has we have fossil fuels and nuclear power.
As China expands its own use of energy, including that from renewable sources, the nation intends to hold-back its exports of REEs for its own use, with potential impacts on the development of renewable energy such as from wind across the world.
The Renewable Energy Commission has also been looking at the potential for offshore tidal and wind power, which Deputy Duhamel said could play a significant role in improving the island's energy security in the future.
They are a pretty basic technology, they are a one hit, while if we develop lagoons, if we develop other forms of tidal and wave and other ways of extracting the energy from the water and the wind then I think we've got a great potential export trade.
North Carolina boasts more offshore wind power potential than any other state on the East Coast, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Among all the energy-supply technologies, the three with the biggest potential today are solar power, wind power and nuclear power.
Waterfall added that FloDesign's low-wind technology has the potential not only to revolutionize wind-power technology, but also to make wind-power a viable energy solution for New England's energy needs.
To be sure, there are potential opportunities in the development and implementation of energy-saving technologies in the next decade, including wind and solar energy, but it's doubtful that many jobs can be generated without a major shift in the economic climate here.
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