Currently there are some bills circulating through the legislature concerning renewable energy mandates in Utah energy companies. The bill with mandates failed in committee, but a bill with exactly similar wording except the whole mandate part passed. So basically if energy companies FEEL like developing renewables. This was done because advisors claimed Utah does not possess enough renewable sources to develop to get to 25% by the year 2025. Here is my question: does Utah not have sun? Or wind? I can understand the water lack, or possibly even rare geothermal pockets. Would it be better to work as a whole nation towards the 25x25 goal? Across the whole nation, I truly believe that there are enough renewables to spread around for at least the power companies. Probably not for cars and alternative fuels, but heating and lighting could be possible. I’d really like to discuss “tide power”… which harnesses the movements of the tides and converts it to energy. If this were the case, why couldn’t we use that as a part of the nationwide effort to reach some sort of a renewable goal?