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Your Questions About Renewable Energy Certificates
Richard asks…
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
admin answers:
With engineering, manufacturing, agriculture, and customer support all outsourced to other countries what is left are the jobs that have to be done locally. This includes jobs to come to a customers home to survey, install and service their energy use.
Lisa asks…
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
admin answers:
To be a salesman perhaps is all it is really good for.
Most of that training is too short to go into any real depth or address any real issues such as structural integrity, windloading, building code issues, electrical code issues, and applicable state laws. As a standalone seminar, it is only consciousness rasing. If it is not part of an established curriculum in technical colleges, or universities- it has no recognizable value to the people doing the hiring. Who is accediting them? Another 501C3? Or a legit accredition agency like “North Central?”
If it is just another 501C3- save your money.
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy Jobs
Mark asks…
How would I get a intern-like job (non-payed) in a renewable energy company?
I’m 16, and will be 17 by the summer, I’m still in Secondary school and I would really like to get some sort of insight into renewable energy over the summer, as I would like to persue a career in that field. I live in Ayr in Scotland, so it would have to be near there possibly out to glasgow. I’ve no idea how to go about it, and I don’t know what company I could go to either. The company I could think of is EDF Energy. I thought of maybe writing an email and asking if I could come in and maybe help out, getting coffee etc. Any help would be great!
admin answers:
Research a list of companies in your area, or close to where you live. Look under their “careers” page on their websites to determine if they have any internship positions available. If they do, apply for them. If not, contact the company and describe how interested you are in renewable energy and that you would be willing to intern/help over the summer.
I hope this helps! Being proactive usually helps in cases like these. You never know what will happen if you don’t try!
Laura asks…
Where to look for jobs in renewable energy?
I wish to find employment in the renewable energy field. I am a physics graduate and wish to work in the UK preferably. Any ideas?
admin answers:
Ask them if their force is also renewable…
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy For All
Lizzie asks…
Major in ChemEng, and minor in sustainable energy, good idea?
I want to do a Major and Minor, University of Toronto offers chemical engineering program and it says i can minor in 1) sustainable energy 2) environmental engineering 3) biomedical engineering
I would choose 1) because i think it has the highest demand in the future.
So, will I be able to find a job with a minor in like lets say, Hydro company with my minor in sustainable energy.
Does having a minor really help?
admin answers:
A minor will only “expose” you to the subject. I don’t think it will have any direct impact on your future employment since it only introduces you the very basic foundations. Referring to what you said about Hydro companies, i think they would much prefer someone with a more suitable background (i.e Civil or Engsci’s Energy Systems Engineering).
Did you know that U of T now allows engineering students to take a minor in the faculty arts & science. Why not choose one of the hundreds of minors available within art&sci? I think something like Chem Eng & Econ/ Chem Eng & Stats would be a good combo.
David asks…
What do you think is stopping human beings around the world from thriving?
People live in poverty, lack access to food, clean water and sustainable energy. People die from starvation, disease and war. Who or what is responsible for this?
Joe – I’m talking about lack of access on a global scale.
It’s time that people start thinking “outside the box.” We close our minds to certain ideas or realities because not doing so would reveal just how dire our situation is. Most of the population have become sheep who have been convinced that they need a shepherd.
just thinking – But why?
admin answers:
The people who have the money and control of it are greedy. They do not care enough to change those things.And the people who do care and try to help do not have the resources to do it.
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy Solutions
Mark asks…
Why are there no good suggestions for mitigating CO2 levels?
Most of the “solutions” to global warming are just methods to tax companies for unspecified projects to reduce global warming. Most of the suggested solutions are merely schemes to make companies pay for being big bad meanies. Why are there very few people with actual intelligent solutions for reducing the CO2 in our atmosphere? Yes, burning less fossil fuels would do that, but if we gave up fossil fuels we would have mass starvation on our hands. I’m all for sustainable alternate forms of energy, but what of other solutions, such as devising ways to absorb any extra CO2 in our atmosphere?
admin answers:
The only solution is to enjoy an atmosphere richer in CO2, which, if it continues will be beneficial for plant life… Which will benefit all life on earth.
The more CO2 there is, the more plants use it. Compared to naturally growing plants, we could have no appreciable effect at all. There’s a lot of them, not many of us.
Michael asks…
How to green power my home?
I am a father of 3 and tired of paying these outrageous energy bills monthly. We pay in the neighbourhood of 450 canadaian and its got to end! I have come to the conclusion I am going to invest in renewable energy solutions for my home. I want to FULLY remove my home from the energy grid.
I need to know exactly what I will need? I understand I need solar panels and batteries, or windgenerator and batteries but, what else? What past the batteries in the system will I need?
admin answers:
Buy a book called the Solar Living Sourcebook…
Http://www.amazon.com/Real-Goods-Solar-Living-Sourcebook-12th/dp/091657105X
that’s a description of it, it’s about $25 but it has everything you need to know from start to finish, plus other topics / methods in sustainability/renewable energy
it’s basically the hornbook for sustainable folks…if they don’t own it then they’ve at least heard of it, i promise you that
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy Certificates
Mark asks…
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
admin answers:
While NABCEP or some other certification will not guarantee a job, it does give an advantage to an applicant. They show that the person has at least some basic knowledge and/or skills. It also shows an interest in the industry prior to the job posting.
If you know that you can get a job without it, good for you.
If you have no interest in the industry then don’t bother.
If you want to work in the industry or know what you enough to talk intelligibly about topics relating to renewable energy then get training.
Steven asks…
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
admin answers:
Marketing. Depending on how recognized that certificate is, it could help a person find a job in that field and increase a person’s knowledge of the field.
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy
Susan asks…
What has Bangladesh done to establish sustainable energy in it’s Nation?
-What projects, project proposals, development plans and in progress plans has Bangladesh had over the years to shift to sustainable energy? Any open declarations by leaders promising energy sustainability would also be appreciated.
admin answers:
I agree that moving toward sustainable energy is very important for Bangladesh and am excited to see the progress in the solar energy that a previous poster mentioned. One big challenge is that in many developing nations, not just Bangladesh, they can set up small solar outfits, but there is no infrastructure in place to share power generated with the larger community. An even bigger challenge is that even if Bangladesh chose to use only sustainable *sources of energy*, the infrastructure right now would still not be capable of fully supporting is population base. There is still a long road ahead for Bangladesh in terms of sustainable energy (not even going into the more holistic view of sustainability), but the seeds have been planted and I’m confident that the people of Bangladesh are up to the challenge and moving in the right direction.
Richard asks…
What type of engineers work in the field of sustainable energy?
What type of engineers work in the field of sustainable energy? For example solar power energy, wind energy, wave energy, water current energy. Would it be environmental engineering, civil or Mechanical?
thanks
what do you mean bbullough
admin answers:
Typically mechanical or chemical… But mostly engineers who work for companies that survive only on government subsidies and tax breaks… ’cause it ain’t sustainable.
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy Technologies
Mandy asks…
who are the recruiters in TU delft?
I am planning to do masters in Sustainable Energy Technology in TU Delft in Netherlands. Does anyone know who are recruiters for this major and wat is the probability of getting a job.
admin answers:
Try this http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=bc51ddac-9f4f-441a-a32b-1ad738a2f317&lang=en
John asks…
What is the importance of entropy to the study of energy technology?
what is the relationship of entropy to the energy technology
admin answers:
The 2nd Law of thermodynamic: since entropy never decreases there are always heat losses in energy systems. The importance of technology that minimizes that loss to sustainable life-style, and eventually to mankind’s survival, is seen as a simple equation.
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy World
Betty asks…
How much money does the world spend on renewable energy?
I was wondering how much money does the world as a total spends on renewable energy?
admin answers:
17 trillion a year
Laura asks…
What are the best examples of renewable energy being put to good use in the real world?
I’m writing a report for school on the future of renewable energy (including wind, water, solar, geothermal, and biofuel), and want to give some real world examples of how renewable energy is being used effectively today. What strikes you as some of the best real world examples you’ve seen or heard of?
admin answers:
Geothermal energy used in Iceland. Iceland’s many geysers and hotsprings make it an excellent location for geothermal energy.
Niagra Falls and Hoover Dam… Provide a ton of electrical power.
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy Development
William asks…
Class, the “green” movement is creating new companies and new industries that help with energy conservation,?
renewal energy development, environmental clean-up, and other ways to make life on Earth more sustainable. What are some opportunities for small businesses to make profits in this area? What advantages might small businesses have over large businesses in pursuing these opportunities?
admin answers:
Simple, most of green products, till now to be honest, at lest not impressive if not worst. If you have a small business, ideas and know how, you can produce better quality working green products versus big corporations that produce stuff that either doesn’t work or very poor quality. After all your small business will depend on quality of the products it pushing.
James asks…
What do conservatives believe they are achieving by putting off the development of sustainable energy?
Do they not know that any financial price they have to pay for it now will be doubled or tripled by the time their children are forced to deal with the fact that the fossil fuels are not infinite and their price depends on them being plentiful?
admin answers:
Conservatives are not putting off developing sustainable energy
You are free to invest YOUR time and money into it any time you want.
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy Certificates
Paul asks…
How to purchase and use Renewable Energy Certificates?
Can someone please explain if and how I can buy renewable energy certificates for my apartment electricity use. My local energy company does not currently provide renewable energy and I am under the impression I can buy certificates from renewable energy companies and use those certificates to pay for my current electric bill.
Can you please explain this process.
admin answers:
It’s a pointless exercise because all of the electricity comes from the same generators connected to the same grid.
Joseph asks…
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
What possible reason could anybody ever have for wanting to get a renewable energy training certificate?
admin answers:
Cause people are wanting to know more about renewable energy more and more to bring that to a company makes you an asset which means more knowledge and money for you, im wanting it
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy Fund
Laura asks…
How can I get funding to reconstuct an old house and start a community awareness prog for sustainability?
We want to educate our neighborhood about sustainable building options. The project is called the Lemon Road House Project and is based in Olympia, Washington. We will deconstruct a 60 year old house and construct a energy efficient, sustainable house to use as a focal point for the community education program. We need funding in the way of grants, donations, etc. Any suggestions?
admin answers:
Im doing fund raising for the 40hour famine in one day i collected $50, but if u get a few people to go around collecting money from generous people and make people aware of this issue you could get quite a bot on money
Ruth asks…
Should Governments be rebuilding the economy – or developing a new, sustainable one?
Government funds now propping up “old” economic structures (commercial banks) and outdated infrastructure (cars/freeways) – and strategies like Emission Trading Schemes framed to protect polluters “to save jobs” – could be funding pollution-free energy systems etc to answer Climate Change, CREATING new jobs — and an economy aimed at need instead of merely “created wants”. But how widespread is awareness of options? And acceptance of Climate Change warnings?
admin answers:
Yes, however, politicians aren’t really qualified to do so. It is up to “we the people” to make change by changing ourselves. I am optimistically thinking that the anti-change camp (conservatives) are in decline. And that the younger generations are smarter. But those who fear change are still powerful and they are doing all they can to stop progress. Awareness is growing, but it is difficult to see or hear. To see why just visit the “Global warming” category here. The deniers seem to be a majority. And they are very emotional, downright religious, about the issue. Just keep in mind that their emotional state is evidence that they are losing, and they are losing because of their own self destructive emotions. YAY! The so called “evidence” they keep presenting is so wrong it’s hilarious. They are actually claiming that the Earth is cooling, and the ice caps are growing. Their own lies will be their own undoing.
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy
Steven asks…
How is renewable energy good for the economy?
Can renewable energy truly be good for the economy, and how so?
admin answers:
Renewable energy can be good once we have a storage system to store the sun’s, wind’s, etc’s energy and use it when we need it.
It is good for the economy because it is getting more and more expensive to dig up conventionals.
James asks…
What is the difference between a renewable energy source and a nonrenewable energy source? Give specific e?
What is the difference between a renewable energy source and a nonrenewable energy source? Give me some specific examples.
admin answers:
A renewable energy source is one that naturally replenishes itself as it is consumed. Solar energy, for example, will continue to make its way to us for as long as the sun continues to burn, whether we harness it or not. The same could be said about wind, hydro, biomass, etc. (though these are really just indirect forms of solar energy – without the sun, there would be no wind, the water cycle would not function, and plant life would not grow). The only other renewable energy input that the earth sees as a whole is geothermal – heat energy from its own core (though this will also eventually run out).
Another possible example of a renewable energy source could be landfill gas, though this is debatable. As long as humans continue to create a huge amount of organic waste, I guess, then we should be able to continue capturing methane from it.
A non-renewable source, on the other hand, will not be replenished once it is used. Fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal), for example, are considered non-renewable, because they took millions of years to form. Once a barrel of oil is brought up from the earth and burned, it will not be replenished for a long, long time.
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy For Kids
Ruth asks…
How do we transition from non-renewable resources to sustainable clean energy?
With the reduction in global oil and cost production, and the current shift in the US to natural gas, major energy sources are dynamic in time. In the coming future, how can we as a global society, shift our focus from non-renewable fossil fuels to renewable clean energy sources that meet all our growing energy challenges?
admin answers:
Start having fewer children.
The energy demand from 7 billion people is so high that it cannot be met by clean, renewable sources even if these sources became 25% better overnight. Right now we have a choice: have fewer kids and let them live good lives supported by clean renewable energy, or have another seven billion kids and watch them live miserably and fight over whatever declining non-renewable resources exist.
Steven asks…
What happened that gas stations no longer have attendants like they used to? For instance Texaco had at least?
two come out to check your car and one would check your oil when permitted to, or wash the windshield. Another would pump your gas,and sometimes a third one would check your tire pressure. If you had a kid with you they would get a lollipop. Is it a combination of corporate greed, over-regulation of government and excessive taxation? Also the fact that the gasoline is way out of proportion to it’s true value. I would love to see a break-through of cheap energy that no government had a chance to stop or regulate come to the people.I am sure that cheap renewable energy is abundant out there,that is being suppressed!
admin answers:
In oregon and new jersey they have attendants pumping gas because self serve is illegal but they dont do any of the other things
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy Jobs
William asks…
How in demand will renewable energy jobs be in the near future?
I’m really worried about the economy and looking for a quick certification so I can have some sort of qualification in case it totally goes under. I found a 14 credit hour renewable energy certification at a community college. Do you think this will do any good for finding jobs?
admin answers:
Very high demand for scientists and engineers and designers..
Jenny asks…
Effect of using renewable energy on the economy?
I’m doing a project for my economics class and I have to explain several different ways in which transitioning to renewable energy and relying less on fossil fuels will effect the economy. So far all I really have is that it will create more jobs. I have to be able to write a 5 page paper on this. Please help, this is due tomorrow!
admin answers:
Using less coal will mean fewer coal miners.
Using less petroleum will mean fewer guys working on those deep ocean well drilling rigs.
Using more Wind will mean more money for the farmers that have windmills on their land. And Studying the effects of killing birds from the blades.
Using more solar will mean lots more folks trained on how to install solar panels.
All this also means changes in College courses to prepare for degrees in these areas.
Less petroleum imported will mean a better balance of payments for Commerce.
Less petroleum means less reliance on Air transport and a shift to higher speed trains.
Airplanes are one of the least efficient users of petroleum. Soon Air travel will be only for the very important, rich or for a very infrequent trip.
People will live closer to work unless public transit is available.
If we go to food based crops for energy it will mean we starve people and start wars over food. (BAD idea)
conservation will be very IN due to the higher cost per watt from renewable sources.
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy
Maria asks…
What aspect of renewable or sustainable energy would you be interested in looking into?
What aspect of renewable or sustainable energy would you, personally, be interested in looking into as a possible way to achieve a sustainable future?
Not asking anyone to answer this for me, but I don’t really understand the question. Is it asking like what type of energy source? Or what? Thank you!
admin answers:
There are several kinds of renewable or sustainable energy sources and these are different.
Renewable energy is what is there on our planet, that you can use and there will be more tomorrow, without you having to do anything. Those types of energy are solar and wind energy. You can capture these sources of energy fairly “easily”. (There are also geothermal, tidal and hydro electricity but those are not available everywhere – but they are all still renewable energy)
Sustainable energy comes from sources that you can keep going without reducing the availability (if you replace them). This would include wood, for instance. You can cut and burn wood for energy and replace it by planting more trees.
These are all different from non-renewable and non-sustainable sources, such as coal, oil and gas which are non renewable and non sustainable.
My personal interests would lie in (a) solar energy and (b) wood. In the northern part of the UK, the sun doesn’t always shine as much as we would like but wood grows well, so you get the use of both in case of need.
Helen asks…
What aspect of renewable or sustainable energy would you be interested in looking into as a possible?
What aspect of renewable or sustainable energy would you, personally, be interested in looking into as a possible way to achieve a sustainable future?
Not asking anyone to answer this for me, but I don’t really understand the question. Is it asking like what type of energy source? Or what? Thank you!
admin answers:
Solar power; Geothermal power; Windmills; Wave power and Tidal power are all necessary if we are to reduce our reliance on coal, gas and uranium to a sustainable level.
I personally am also interested in powering a laptop from a stationary bicycle with a fly wheel and generator.
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy Companies
Charles asks…
Can more be done to prevent the growth of local sustainable environmentally sensible economic growth?
besides giving billions of dollars to oil and energy companies?
admin answers:
Goodness yes. Obama tried hard to use his stimulus to create jobs in sustainable energy. Republicans, of course, fought that all the way. Reagan stripped Carter’s solar panels off the WH and nothing has changed since. If you care about clean stainable energy, always vote Democratic.
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Laura asks…
Would it not make sense to divert profits from oil companies, via tax, into sustainable energy resources?
Increasing oil prices may curb demand, but why does that have to translate into profits for oil companies?
admin answers:
It might. Maybe we should have done what Europe has been doing for years. Gas prices have been $4-$5 per gallon in Germany for many years … Not because of the price of oil, but because of higher taxes. In other words, Europe hasn’t diverted profits … They’ve taken it from tax payers.
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy Definition
Sandra asks…
Definitions of non-renewable and renewable energy sources?
I need good definitions for both
non-renewable energy source
and renewable energy source.
admin answers:
Non-renewable uses a source that consumes a natural resource in limited supply. (Oil, coal… We can’t make more so it depletes the existing supply.)
Renewable uses a source that can be taken or grown and therefore can be replenished (Sunlight, wood, corn… We can make or take more and it doesn’t deplete a limited supply.)
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David asks…
What would happen if we didn’t use renewable energy?
What do scientists fear if people didn’t use renewable energy?
admin answers:
By definition, non renewable energy can’t be renewed. It is finite and it will run out. We don’t have an accurate measure of how much fossil fuels we have left or how long that supply will last us. Many scientists believe we have passed the 1/2 way mark and we will see shortages in less than 25 years maybe sooner if we don’t learn to conserve what we have.
Renewable energy isn’t just about saving the environment, although most of them are much cleaner and produce far less pollution than fossil fuels. Renewable energy is also about ensuring our quality of life and for many it’s about energy independence.
I have solar panels which produce most of my electricity, when the city raised our rates by 20% it made little difference on my bill, if I hadn’t installed my solar system it would have been an additional $50 per month.
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