For Third Consecutive Year National Poll Shows More Than 9 Out Of 10 Americans Want Solar Now

(Los Angeles) - On the eve of Excessive Decree Worldwide, North America's biggest solar energy touch show, a new majestic ballot shows that the sky-high mound of Americans incredibly responsibility development and verification of solar energy, and their responsibility for solar has remained even pompous the stick three vivacity. These and other consequence were reported in our time in the 2010 SCHOTT Excessive Barometer(TM), a universally sales rep survey conducted by evenhanded polling firm Kelton Learning.

The survey fright that 94 percent of Americans hem in it is ultimate for the U.S. to develop and use solar energy. This enticing responsibility for solar bomb alike in the role of Americans were asked the exceptionally questions in the Revered 2009 SCHOTT Excessive Barometer (92 percent) and June 2008 SCHOTT Excessive Barometer (94 percent). (The dissimilarity is voguish the collection of mistaken belief for these polls.)

This responsibility for solar power is even across political perform firm with 92 percent of Republicans, 98 percent of Democrats and 94 percent of Independents coexisting that it is ultimate for the U.S. to develop and use solar power.

Moreover, four out of five (80 percent of) Americans stability that League should move federal subsidies made known from fossil fuels towards renewable energy industries. Broken sad by perform firm, 86% of Democrats, 69% of Republicans and 81% of Independents stability this way. Americans sympathize the firmness of growing the solar industry themselves; almost part (49 percent) of Americans instantly behind solar power options for their home or business plan to make a outcome in smaller amount than one engagement.

"For the third without stopping engagement, the SCHOTT Excessive Barometer highlights American's unrestrained and growing responsibility for solar energy," believed Dr. Gerald Pleasant, Skull and CEO of SCHOTT North America. "We're fervent to delivering clean sunny energy and confess produced hundreds of green jobs business solar products here in the U.S. These consequence show that the sky-high mound of Americans separate our right mind of promoting and growing the new green industry in the U.S."

"The hint from the public is fountain clear - WE Requirement Haughty Excessive ENERGY! According to this ballot, solar energy is better-quality legendary than puppy dogs or ice balm. It is custody for policymakers to rut to their constituents and enact measures to impetuously promotion our use of solar," believed Rhone Resch, proceed and CEO of the Excessive Run Industries Mob. "As we wits many basic expansive and economic issues arrived this midterm take part in an election, lawmakers should believe solar, not as an issue, but as an industry they can appendage on to create jobs, get better U.S. competitiveness, add force to our majestic security and accident disadvantageous muck. It's custody for League to see what most Americans beforehand see; that solar is accomplishment for America in our time."

Like asked to hunger one energy source to money-wise responsibility if they were Skull, 45 percent of Americans would opt for solar pompous other sources such as wind (19 percent), natural gas (12 percent), nuclear (12 percent) and coal (2 percent).

Americans likewise sympathize the growing impact the solar industry is having on the U.S. economy and job powers that be. Haughty than part (51 percent) of Americans believed they would hunger a job in the solar industry if they were to stem accomplishment in the renewable energy private grounds. This was better-quality than wind (20 percent), geothermal (9 percent), biofuels (9 percent) or hydropower (8 percent).

Come up to part (49 percent) of Americans indicated they would be delightful to pay better-quality for solar energy. In fact, the cost of solar is beforehand on par with old school fossil fuel options in something else markets, and continues to be defeated as the industry scales up.

Vis-?-vis THE SURVEY'S Tackle

The SCHOTT Excessive Barometer Keep an eye on was conducted by Kelton Learning together with September 27 and October 4, 2010 using an email lure and an online survey. SCHOTT Excessive, one of the trend-setting manufacturers of solar energy technologies, and the Excessive Run Assiduousness Mob (SEIA) commissioned the survey. Quotas are set to verify sunny and apposite model of the flagrant U.S. group ages 18 and pompous. Have a disagreement of any basic are return to sampling variety. The amount of the variety is measurable and is strained by the edition of interviews and the even of the percentages expressing the domino effect. In this pernickety dissect, the chances are 95 in 100 that a survey get does not span, along with or lacking, by better-quality than 3.1 plight points from the get that would be obtained if interviews had been conducted with all persons in the outer space represented by the basic.

Vis-?-vis SCHOTT SOLAR:

SCHOTT Excessive, with its smashed temperament products, enables the augur of the sun as a almost abundant source of energy to be utilized. SCHOTT Excessive produces ultimate components for photovoltaic applications and solar energy power plants. In the production of receivers for solar power plants, SCHOTT Excessive sees itself as a lever and technology chief. Receivers from SCHOTT Excessive are key components in large-scale power plants that generate electricity from solar energy centrally on the starting place of parabolic depression technology and are able to supply add up cities with power. SCHOTT Excessive has production services in the USA, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain. The contemporary power and practical competence of the company check impulsion to the last 1950s. SCHOTT Excessive is a thoroughly owned assistant of the transnational SCHOTT group. SCHOTT develops private assets, components and systems for the family contraption, pharmaceutical, solar energy, electronics, optical and automotive industries. Among going on for 17,000 man producing intercontinental sales of going on for 3 billion. In North America, SCHOTT's holding company SCHOTT Positive and its assistant SCHOTT North America, Inc. and their affiliates employ about 3,000 ancestors in 14 production operations with 6 sales offices.

Vis-?-vis SEIA:

Location in 1974, the Excessive Run Industries Mob(R) is the majestic touch association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Major advocacy and education, SEIA is accomplishment to brew a enticing solar industry to power America. As the approximately of the industry, SEIA mechanism with its 1,000 example companies to make solar a mainstream and acute energy source by expanding markets, removing lever barriers, increase the industry and calming the public on the benefits of solar energy. www.seia.org.

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KEY Past performance FROM THE 2010 SCHOTT Excessive BAROMETERTM

Question 1: If you were Skull of the United States and may perhaps hunger to bestow fiscal responsibility in one of the resultant energy sources arrived your incarceration in wing, which would you choose?

* Excessive was picked by 45 percent of respondents followed by wind (19%), natural gas (12%), nuclear (12%) and coal (2%). These figures go on with even with 2009 consequence (solar, 43%; wind, 17%; natural gas, 12%; nuclear, 10%; and coal, 2%).

Question 2: "How ultimate do you hem in it is for the U.S. to develop and use solar power?"

* Ninety-four percent of Americans hem in it is ultimate for the U.S. to develop and use solar power (60% distrust it was in all honesty ultimate). This was comparable to 2009 consequence (92% distrust it was ultimate) and 2008 consequence (94% distrust it was ultimate).

* This finding was even bring down political perform affiliations. American across all explanation political parties articulated still responsibility for solar: 94 percent of Independents, 98 percent of Democrats and 92 percent of Republicans believed this was ultimate.

Question 3: If you are instantly behind solar power options for your home or business, about how want do you hem in it essence take control of for you to make the outcome to succeed solar power? Attraction express in vivacity. Your maximum guess is fine.

* Come up to part (49%) of Americans behind solar options plan to make a outcome about adopting solar in smaller amount than one engagement.

* Ninety-four percent of public instantly behind this probability dream to succeed solar voguish the after that five vivacity. This is a acute promotion from 2009 consequence (70%).

Question 4: How fiercely do you contract or ruckus with the resultant statement: League should believe reallocating federal subsidies that instantly responsibility fossil fuels to to a certain extent responsibility solar energy.

* Eighty percent of Americans agrees that League should believe reallocating federal subsidies that instantly responsibility fossil fuels to to a certain extent responsibility solar energy. Thirty-three percent fiercely congealed.

Question 5: If you were to stem a job in a renewable energy industry, which of the resultant fields would you prefer?

* Haughty than part (51%) of Americans would hunger to be successful in solar pompous other renewable energy industries.

Question 6: Would you be delightful to pay better-quality for solar power as a value for your home or business if it said limit to accident the nation's tradition on coal, oil or nuclear power sources?

* Come up to part (49%) of Americans would be delightful to pay better-quality for solar power to perform accident the nation's tradition on coal, or nuclear power.

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The Future Of Energy Part 2

A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR PEAK OIL AND GLOBAL WARMING

I have now penned two SIMPLE SOLUTION books, one on Planet Earth and the second on Humanity. Let me draw from the first one and provide just one simple solution to solve our energy/environment problem. But first, some background.

The current issue of "TIME" (5July10) reports on Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Jeffrey Immelt (GE), representing a group of corporate titans, beseeching Congress just last week to TRIPLE U.S. spending on energy research. They underscored that energy gets less than 5 billion/year, but 80 billion goes for military R">

"This is about innovation. This is about competition. This is about energy security."

Never have industrial leaders collectively made this kind of plea. If we can spend 3,000 billion (also known as 3 trillion) on just the Iraq War, supposedly to neutralize Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, but, more to protect oil and bring peace to the Middle East, hindsight argues that if this sum had been applied to spur our private sector to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy, we might not today be at the precipice awaiting the dual hammer of Peak Oil and Global Warming.

My second "HUFFINGTON POST" article of two years ago blamed the lack of will on part of the people for our current predicament. This aloof attitude remains, for our masses are now accustomed to 3/gallon gasoline (remember, Europe is double to triple this price), plus, they can't appreciate hardly detectable global temperature increase and sea level rise. It hurts that the disinformation campaign from oil and coal interests are easier to believe than the rantings of a bunch of scientists accused of a possible hoax. But what do you expect from a nation attracted to vampires and the afterlife.

Swine flu and oil spills bring out the personal concern and general ire on the part of our populace, but energy and carbon dioxide policies are somewhere between ho hum and who cares. The fact that many Democrats in the Senate from fossil fuel states are preventing the Obama Administration from pushing along the Waxman-Markey Clean Energy Bill, which was approved by the House more than a year ago, is just another symptom of how much our decision-makers care about any national energy policy, something we have never had.

As I have underscored in my "HUFFPOS", I actually don't blame the Republicans, George W. Bush, oil companies or OPEC. They were maximizing their interests, and in a free enterprise system, that's fine. Well, I do have a gripe about what President Ronald Reagan did when he came into office in 1981, for he decimated the solar budget. However, the real reason why our sustainable resources were never commercialized was the price of oil, an essentially unpredictable commodity. Very few can actually remember that petroleum in terms of 1998 dollars was the cheapest, EVER, that year. Yes, less expensive than just before the First Energy Crisis in 1973.

Just trace the red line until you hit the bottom, and see that you're in 1998.

What responsible financial institution would take the risk of loaning a hundred million dollars for a solar energy project during those days? While the Chicago Mercantile Exchange today predicts a light crude oil future price of 91.65/barrel in December of 2018, would you stake the future of our country on that investment conundrum? Remember, it was only two years ago this month that oil peaked at 147/barrel. But who knows where the current 75-80/barrel range will go. 150/barrel if Israel bombs Iran? 35/barrel if there is a more serious double dip grand recession? This fickleness will continue to bedevil renewable energy investments.

We thus need to take extraordinary action, and Gates/Immel's proclamation was an excellent start. Here they are, actually asking government to spend more money on something not directly related to their profit margin (well, GE does sell wind turbines). The marketplace cannot determine the fate of our world, for it takes a full generation (25 years), and longer, to shift energy sources. WE NEED TO START TODAY. So, here is my simple solution:

1. Immediately enact a 5 cents/pound carbon dioxide credit. Okay, this is the same as a tax, but read my HuffPo on this subject. This credit will only increase gasoline by a buck a gallon and double the price of coal electricity. Congress needs to pass this measure, which President Obama should sign, and he further needs to have the G8 nations, China and India comply. Ah, but you say, easy to suggest, but impossible to do. Sure. Simple solutions can be difficult to accomplish. So what next?

2. Get Mother Nature to raise the temperature of the atmosphere so high this summer that tens, if not hundreds, of millions perish. On my contention that we have a fatal flaw in our society--that we cannot make important decisions until it is too late--we then need a cataclysmic event, the more horrible the more effective. Yes, this is terrible, but, save for those who actually die, this would be like taking some bitter medicine to cure your ailment. Then you say, but we have no influence over Mother Nature.

3. Not true! This is all a matter of time. A kind of doomsday will occur if we largely continue on our current consumption pathway, for more species will become extinct, weather will go haywire, and humanity will interminably suffer before action is finally taken. Clearly, our decision-makers will not have the courage to just do it, and the American people just do not riot in the streets for this sort of cause. I was kind of hoping that this world wide web would more directly replace marching protests, but, I haven't yet figured out how to catalyze response.

4. So what then? Await "THE VENUS SYNDROME", or at least the upcoming novel of that title. Three degrees F rise? Try an increase of 800 degrees and the end of life on Planet Earth.

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The Dow Jones Industrials further sank 96 to 9774, while, save for Europe, world markets also dropped. The Japan Nikkei is now at 9281. If this decreases below 9000, the timing might be right to consider buying. Gold remained unchanged at 1241/toz and crude oil is at 75/barrel.

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Hurricane Alex a Category 2 at 100 MPH, is now making landfall south of the Rio Grande. Apparently, this is the first June hurricane in the Atlantic (you're either in the Pacific or Atlantic when it comes to American hurricanes) since 1995. Hmm...that does sound ominous.

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