By George Alger   |   March 18, 2011 Re-printed from – http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/2greenenergy-com/news/article/2011/03/best-selling-book-on-clean-energy-yours-free Los Angeles “Even the constant drumbeat of energy-related tragedies does very little to stimulate engagement in clean energy,” fumes Craig Shields, author of RENEWABLE ENERGY – FACTS AND FANTASIES, #1 best selling energy book on Amazon.com. “Fishermen in the gulf are ruined. Northern Africa is in flames due to the tyranny of oil money. And the world is in tears about Japan. But what’s the US doing about its energy policy? Essentially nothing.” The issue, Shields believes, is that people generally don’t understand clean energy; they think it’s a utopian dream for left-leaning...
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By Dana Blankenhorn March 14, 2011    Re-printed from: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2011/03/solar-wind-and-biomass-worth-188-billion-in-2010?cmpid=SolarNL-Tuesday-March15-2011 The main renewable energy industries grew 35% last year, and revenues should double again this decade, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2011 report issued today by Clean Edge Inc., the Portland-based research company. This boom has been going on for a decade and shows no signs of stopping, the report said. Since 2000 the market for solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind has grown 20-fold, with the price to install solar panels falling by nearly half, and the percentage of the country’s venture capital invested in the space growing from less than 1% to last...
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