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		<title>Top 10 reasons for USA to strive for Global Leadership in SEI via massive scaling</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here are our top 10 reasons for the US to become the global leader in Sustainable Energy Initiatives (SEI). What are your top 3?<br />
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<li>USA is the only nation on earth that has the economic power to implement massive scale sustainable energy initiatives needed to become a significant part&#8230;</li></ol>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are our top 10 reasons for the US to become the global leader in Sustainable Energy Initiatives (SEI). What are your top 3?<br />
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<li>USA is the only nation on earth that has the economic power to implement massive scale sustainable energy initiatives needed to become a significant part of the energy generation in the near future. Others like Japan and Germany have blazed through the initial laps and now USA needs to take over and run the last lap&#8230; and win for everyone.</li>
<li>USA is the only nation on earth who has available land mass and the ingenuity to implement massive scale sustainable energy initiatives needed to make it a significant part of the energy generation over the near future.</li>
<li>The current economic crisis of gigantic proportions also presents us with the greatest opportunity of our lifetime to reshape our economies in a way that makes USA the global leader. We will lead by example.</li>
<li>The vast amounts of investments being made by the Federal Government this year to revive the economy can be leveraged to reshape the energy usage in residential, commercial and industrial entities to align to new energy economy initiatives.</li>
<li>The new energy economy based on sustainable energy will be the next vibrant economic engine of growth that will create millions of jobs for our country and no other country can take most of these jobs away!</li>
<li>Massive scaling and intense competition will derive economies of scale that will rapidly bring the prices down to below what we pay for fossil fuel based energy within next six to eight years. The investment we make now will be paid back many times over by 2030. It is time to change our mindset that sustainable energy means a perpetual “big whopping tax” to the people.</li>
<li>Massive scaling of sustainable energy initiatives will tackle climate change issues and sidetrack the raging debates about why, when and how we tackle the climate change problem.</li>
<li>It’s about time we listened to Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb (1847–1931) &#8216;I&#8217;d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don&#8217;t have to wait &#8217;til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.&#8217;</li>
<li>In the absence of massive scaling, sustainable energy initiatives will remain significantly more costly to deploy and will always be viewed as a “tax” we have to pay and make us less competitive compared to developing countries that are taking our jobs away. It’s like throwing a pebble in the ocean and expecting to make a difference.</li>
<li>Failure to capitalize on the current economic crisis to become the Global Leader in Sustainable Energy Initiatives has serious detrimental effects to overall positioning of Global Leadership of USA in not only energy arena but will also permeate to other areas of leadership. Over time our future generations will pay the price if we fail to act now.</li>
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<p><em>For an indepth understanding, <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="/blog/docs/invVESTStrategy.pdf">read our Strategy</a> (1.4mb PDF)</em></p>
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		<title>Ideas for Energy Efficiency and Conservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>USA consumes 54% more energy per capita than OECD Europe. Should USA set a goal to reduce energy consumption by 12% at least by 2020?<span id="more-263"></span> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">Should your state be one of the showcase states to lead this initiative?   What should be the top 3 projects from your perspective and&#8230;</span></span></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>USA consumes 54% more energy per capita than OECD Europe. Should USA set a goal to reduce energy consumption by 12% at least by 2020?<span id="more-263"></span> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">Should your state be one of the showcase states to lead this initiative?   What should be the top 3 projects from your perspective and why?</span></span> <a href="http://www.invvest.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/energy-efficiency.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-310" title="energy-efficiency" src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/energy-efficiency.jpg" alt="energy-efficiency" width="600" height="353" /></a> Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programs can make a huge impact immediately. Our research has shown that our per capita energy consumption is 54% more than OECD European countries who have very similar GDP per Capita earnings to USA overall. While a part of this can be attributed to our geography, population density and the sheer size of homes we own compared to our counterparts in European nations, much of it is because Europeans are using energy much more efficiently than us. Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programs can be quick wins and will have a significant return on investment and result in millions of jobs immediately. The blue wedge represents the energy saved by implementing energy programs that save an incremental 1% more energy each year for the next twelve years. If we set a goal to reduce 12% energy consumption by implementing aggressive Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programs by 2020, it can mean $300B in energy savings. Given that we consumed 29,500 Billion kWh equivalent energy in 2008, 1% savings account for 295 Billion kWh. If we assume we save 10 cents for every kWh energy we save through this program, this amounts to roughly $30B savings, so for 12% we save $360B. <strong>Note that energy efficiency &amp; conservation programs will continue to make the single largest impact from day one to at least 2020 among all the stretch goals SEI programs.</strong> <em>For an indepth understanding, <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="/blog/docs/invVESTStrategy.pdf">read our Strategy</a> (1.4mb PDF)</em></p>
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