During this year's presidential campaign, the renewable energy industry and the tax credits that support it receives have become a hot political topic.Renewable energy enjoys broad support in the US where people expect the government to support emerging clean power technologies and the 2012 Global Consumer Wind Study would make useful reading for both candidates.Americans more concerned about the state of the economy than the threat of climate change, that much is certain from the results of the GCWS: 41% of respondents ranked climate change in the lowest category as a threat facing the wor...