Push to forge markets for renewable energies

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BONN - Experts from some 150 countries meeting Wednesday in Bonn have been discussing ways to promote renewable energies, with the focus on efforts to establish markets for alternative fuel sources.

At the International Conference for Renewable Energies Bonn 2004, U.N. Industrial Development Organization official Carlos Magarinos said industrialised nations should expand renewable energy resources so as to lower the prices for the technology needed to exploit them.

He said around 2 billion people worldwide had no access to modern forms of energy. In order to avert the danger to the environment, it was important to decouple economic development from the rising use of fossil fuels such as oil and coal, Magarinos told the conference.

Chinese expert Ma Shenghong gave an example of how this could be done, informing the conference of China's plans to supply rural areas with decentralised energy produced from renewable sources.
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[phantom power]

1. Good, hopefully developing countries can leapfrog

over the fossil fuel stage.

[DenverDem]

2. They are going to have to.

There's not much fossile fuel left.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Renewable Energy Sources And The Big Picture

I'm for renewable energy sources. I am coming to believe that renewable energy sources can not only raise the standard of living for the more impoverished portions of the planet, but also allow many industrialized and developing nations to maintain most if not all of their prosperity after fossil fuel supplies dwindle and the prices for remaining fossil fuels skyrocket.

The major moral flaw of the Dubya Bush energy "plan" was that it was not only based on fossil fuels but also on the premise that the US would have its energy fuels and screw the rest of the world.

[Dover]

4. High Schools going to geothermal

Just had a tour of one of several high schools that are installing geothermal. While up front costs are high, they expect to recoup their investment in 7 - 9 years. Traditional energy costs have skyrocketed and are simply no longer feasible given the shrinking school funds, etc.