Topic: Read the following articles about renewable energy technologies if you are totally new in this field. Identify one or two that interest(s) you the most, and then try to read about it/them more in the Internet in terms their importance as technological solution(s) to the environmental and climate challenges of economic Activities in the United States
and a narrowly defined focus (choose one of the following three focuses):

1. Current status (Research and development, production, and installation, markets, consumption, efficiency, and consumers; challenges),

2. Support (Laws, government policies, information flows and debates on pros and cons), and

3. Implications (Economic, social, and environmental)

Must-read articles:

i. Renewables 2017 Global Status Report, Executive Summary

ii. One or more of the following articles:

Solutions (Select one as the topic of your paper):

1. Renewable energy; Sustainable_energy: in the United States or China
2. Hydropower (YouTube videos): in the United States or China
3. Wind power (YouTube videos): in the_United_States or China
4. Solar power (YouTube videos): in the United States or China
5. Algae fuel; Algae fuel (YouTube videos): Algae fuel in the United States
6. Geothermal energy (YouTube videos): in the United States or China
7. Fuel cell (YouTube videos): Hydrogen fuel, Hydrogen vehicle, Hydrogen highway
8. Energy storage: (YouTube videos) List of energy storage projects; Energy storage database
9. Electric power transmission; Smart grid (YouTube videos): in the United States (policy) or China

Based on Identified Related Problems (not as topic of your paper, but rather as the problem, which your selected technology will help resolve):

1. Air pollution
2. Water pollution
3. Climate change
4. Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl_nuclear_accidents
5. Energy crisis
6. Oil peak
7. Environmental degradation
8. Deforestation
9. Etc.