Investments In Alternative Energy

It is possible to have a portfolio which profitably (that’s the key word, is it not?) invests
in alternative energy funds. “Green” energy production is expected to be a multi-billion
(in today’s dollars) industry by 2013.

The most recently developed wind-turbine technologies have brought us wind-produced

energy which is more cost efficient as well as more widespread. More state -of-the-art
wind energy technologies are typically more market competitive with conventional
energy technologies. The newer wind-power technologies don’t even kill birds like in
days of old! Wind energy production is a growing technology, and companies engaged in
it would make up an excellent part of a growth or aggressive growth portfolio.

Next to consider are solar cell, or photovoltaic cell, technologies. These are to be found
implemented in pocket calculators, private property lights, US Coast Guard buoys, and
other areas. More and more they find their way onto the roofs of housing and
commercial buildings and building complexes. Cost is falling. Their energy efficiency (the
ratio of the amount of work needed to cause their energy production versus the actual
energy production) is steadily on the rise. As an example, the conversion efficiency of
silicon cells has increased from a mere four percent in 1982 to over 20% for the latest
technologies. Photovoltaic cells create absolute zero pollution as they are generating
electrical power. However, photovoltaic cellls are not presently as cost effective as
“utility produced” electricity. “PV” cells are not [capable at present for producing
industrial-production amounts of electricity due to their present constraints on space.
However, areas where photovoltaic cell arrays could be implemented are increasingly
available. In sum, costs are going down while efficiency is rising for this alternative fuel
technology.

Many alternative energy investment portfolio advisors are confident that alternative
energies derived from currents, tidal movement, and temperature differentials are poised
to become a new and predominant form of clean energy. The French are actually fairly
advanced at hydro power generation, and numerous studies are being made in Scotland
and the US along these sames lines. Some concerns center around the problems with
the deterioration of metals in salt water, marine growth such as barnacles, and violent
storms which have all been disruptions to energy production in the past. However, these
problems for the most part seem to be cured through the use of different, better
materials. Ocean-produced energy has a huge advantage because the timing of ocean
currents and waves are well understood and reliable.

Investments in hydro-electric technology have grown in the last two decades. Hydro -

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electric power is clean; however, it’s also limited by geography. While already pro minent
as power generation, the large, older dams have had problems with disturbing marine
life. Improvements have been made on those dams in order to protect marine life, but
these improvements have been expensive. Consequently, more attention is now being
paid to low-impact “run-of-the-river” hydro-power plants, which do not have these
ecological problems.

The reality is, the energy future is green, and investors would do well to put their money
out wisely, with that advice in their minds.

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