G-5 Research and Technology Group

G-5 Research and Technology Group
 http://www.gfiveinternational.com/G5-research.html

 G-5 Research and Technology  Group will be working with current technologies made possible by modern, concentrated energy forms to capture and harness dispersed renewable energy potential into concentrated forms. Renewable energy plays a major role in the economies of the developing world.

  Renewable energy relies upon the natural forces at work upon the earth, including the internal heat represented by geothermal, the pull of lunar gravity as it affects the potential for tidal power, and solar radiation such as that stored through photosynthesis in biomass.

Renewable Energy in the US

  About 9 percent of all energy consumed in the United States in 2011 was from renewable sources, and they account for about 13 percent of the nation’s total electricity production.

  While a relatively small fraction of our overall energy supply in 20010, the United States was the world’s largest consumer of renewable energy from geothermal, solar, wood, wind, and waste for electric power generation using some 25% of the world’s total. In 2011, the distribution of U.S. renewable consumption by source was:

• Hydropower 35%
• Biomass Wood 22%
• Biomass Waste 5%
• Biomass Biofuels 21%
• Wind 13%
• Other 4%

   According to the Energy Information Administration, “renewable energy refers to resources that are replenished in a relatively short period of time.” Renewable energy sources include hydropower, wood biomass (used to generate heat and electricity), alternative biomass fuels (such as ethanol and biodiesel), waste, geothermal, wind, and solar.

   The use of renewable fuels dates to Neolithic times, when cave dwellers made fire from wood and other biomass for cooking and heating. For thousands of years thereafter, renewable energy was all humans used. The small amounts of energy accessible to humans through traditional dispersed renewable energy sources meant that for millennia, human lives remained unchanged.

  Today, many are seeking to use technology made possible by modern, concentrated energy forms to capture and harness dispersed renewable energy potential into concentrated forms. Renewable energy plays a major role in the economies of the developing world.

  Renewable energy relies upon the natural forces at work upon the earth, including the internal heat represented by geothermal, the pull of lunar gravity as it affects the potential for tidal power, and solar radiation such as that stored through photosynthesis in biomass.

Renewable Energy in the US

  About 9 percent of all energy consumed in the United States in 2011 was from renewable sources, and they account for about 13 percent of the nation’s total electricity production.

  While a relatively small fraction of our overall energy supply in 20010, the United States was the world’s largest consumer of renewable energy from geothermal, solar, wood, wind, and waste for electric power generation using some 25% of the world’s total. In 2011, the distribution of U.S. renewable consumption by source was:

• Hydropower 35%
• Biomass Wood 22%
• Biomass Waste 5%
• Biomass Biofuels 21%
• Wind 13%
• Other 4%

  While hydropower is  the biggest source of renewable energy in the United States, solar power – particularly photovoltaic cell conversion to electricity – is far and away the smallest, accounting for about four 100th of one percent of the net electricity produced in the United States in 2011.

  Globally, the use of hydroelectricity and other grid-connected renewable energy sources is expected to grow slowly over the next couple of decades, increasing at a rate of 2.9 percent per year until 2035, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Most of that growth will come from the construction of new hydropower and wind generating facilities and increased biofuels production. The renewable share of total world energy consumption is expected to rise from 10.2 percent in 2008 to 14.2 percent in 2035. VRG plans to stay on the cutting edge of modern day research implementing new ideas for a promising new future.