National Park Visitors
The size of the market for national parks is provided based on visitors to these parks annually. The most visited of the national parks is Golden Gate National Park in San Francisco, CA. Geographic...
View ArticleFishing and Aquaculture
As the world population grows, so do all efforts to feed that population. An important resource in this effort are our inland waterways, oceans and seas. Aquaculture—the cultivation of aquatic plants...
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Electricity from Renewables
Hydroelectric power plants are the largest producers of electricity from renewable sources. As we saw in yesterday’s Market Size post, they represented 15.97% of world electricity production in 2008....
View ArticleCrude Oil Supply
Based on report recently issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the supply of crude oil for U.S. energy needs, from all sources, is anticipated to decline between 2009 and 2025. On a per...
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Minerals in Wyoming
Mining and extraction industries in Wyoming saw a significant decline in 2009 after peaking in 2008 for the decade but 2010 saw a strong recovery over 2009. The graph shows taxable value for all...
View ArticleFish Catch
While many spend summer hours in the often leisurely act of fishing, we look today to fishery production for our market size. The market presented below is the size of the domestic catch in the United...
View ArticleBio-Based Manufacturing
In 2011, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry introduced her “Grow It Here, Make It Here” initiative to spur growth in the emerging...
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Waste & Scrap Exports
With the growth of globalization and the increased demand on raw materials, the prices of basic commodities such as minerals, metals, wood, and paper have been volatile and has risen sharply since...
View ArticleDesalination Plants
In a process known as desalination (or desalinization), salt and other minerals are removed from sea water to produce fresh water suitable for human consumption. As world population rises the demand...
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Farms
It takes far fewer acres to produce the food we need and in the United States the acres used in agriculture have been shrinking for decades, while output has grown. The number of farms has also been...
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