And, by the way, our house is a typical family home with electric stove, oven, clothes dryer and all the normal conveniences of modern living. We also use the sun to generate electricity and to heat hot water and our house. We are rapidly using up the finite reserves of oil and gas, we are hurting our economy by sending increasing amounts of our dollars overseas and worst of all, we are polluting the very environment we depend on to live. The answer to our growing energy problems is not to do more of what we did in the past. We cannot dig more dirty coal, puncture the Alaska wilderness with oil wells, relax air pollution laws and Band-Aid real energy shortages with taxpayer bailouts.
Wind energy is a critical part of our renewable energy future.
The United States is lagging in its support and use of wind energy compared to countries like Denmark where 10 percent of their electricity is generated from the wind. Their goal is to have 50 percent from wind power by 2020. Jan and I run NRG Systems, which makes the sensors and instruments to find where the wind blows the hardest. Our business is growing at 30 percent a year, which reflects the growth of the worldwide wind industry. Our leaders have to offer more than lip service to changing the way we produce energy.