Renewable Energy Strategies

Provide renewable energy solutions

Solving energy scarcity depends on making use of new energy sources. Communities around the world struggle every day with a lack of energy for basic needs such as lighting, heat, water purification, and sanitation. Renewable energy provides hope for powering these communities. We are raising the funds to give them that future, and guiding the construction of facilities to make it a reality.

Renewable energy can:

• Empower local populations
• Create jobs and reduce poverty
• Decrease the need for foreign aid and create energy independence
• Reduce the environmental impact of growing populations
• Mitigate many other community problems such as water and food shortages

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Support political courage

We must select leaders who do not tie their decisions to the election cycle, but who are committed to solving the energy problem in the long run. Redeveloping our energy infrastructure will require decades, and will cost billions. While legislation can help, adding more laws isn’t the only answer. We need political leadership that will inspire us as individuals and as a society.

What do we ask of our political leadership?

• Listen to the people. For example, 80% of Americans want to see government aid for wind and solar power put on the same or better footing as coal-fired and nuclear power plants.¹
• Challenge convention. New technologies are disruptive to existing markets, but the end result is, in this case, a better life for humanity.
• Think long-term. It took centuries to create our present crisis, but it could be solved in decades. Implement legislation that will last beyond your term of office.

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Expand our energy production & distribution capacity

In order to meet our future energy needs we would need 18,500 more large (1 GW) power plants by 2050. That’s 1.3 power plants per day, every day for the next 40 years, and that’s simply not feasible. Renewable energy provides a way forward.

Some key facts about our capacities:

• Given present population and GDP growth, over 18,500 more power plants are needed by 2050 to power all of humanity.
• We need more energy capacity, but not using present nonrenewable technologies. China is reported to be building two new coal fired power plants every week.² Even that many plants will not provide all the energy needed - but will have disastrous environmental effects.
• Existing renewable sources could provide more energy than we could ever use. For example, the sun provides approximately 136,000 Terawatts of energy every day. All of mankind needs only 33.

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