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Photo: Ian Chase |
Making use of new energy sources and protecting
our children from global warming will require new types of
partnership between the private sector, non-profit organizations,
and government. Meeting the challenge of global warming also
will require new innovations and creative ideas from the business
sector.
In New Mexico, a variety of entrepreneurs, businesses, inventors,
architects, and designers are already putting innovation to
work and laying the foundation for a new
energy economy.
Additionally, in the absence of significant leadership from
the Federal Government, many large corporations have begun
to pursue projects that are creating a new direction for energy
in America:
- Alcoa, Cargill Dow, Delphi, DuPont, General Motors, IBM,
Interface, Johnson & Johnson, Kinko's and Pitney Bowes,
Dow Chemical and Staples have set the goal of creating 1,000MW
of new, cost-competitive green power by 2010. That's enough
electricity to power 750,000
homes.
- GE is doubling its annual spending on clean technology to $1.5 billion—developing an array of wind turbines, hybrid trains, and superefficient home appliances. GE expects a profit of $20 billion a year by 2010 from those inventions.
- Dow Chemical and General Motors are collaborating in
the world's largest hydrogen fuel-cell deal in history.
- Johnson & Johnson is now using more than 11MW of
wind and 1.5MW of solar electricity, making it the largest
corporate user of solar photovoltaic panels in the US and
one of the largest users of wind power
- General Motors and Interface, the carpeting group, are
now using landfill gas as an energy source at their manufacturing
facilities, shifting away from their reliance on increasingly
expensive natural gas.
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