The Quest For Sustainable Power, Darkness Ahead
A looming danger is ahead, darkness everywhere, no
electricity, no oil. What happens to us when oil runs out? Can you
imagine nothing to fuel our cars, airplanes, tractors, a decline in
farming, a decline in food production? The future seems gloom,
everybody’s predicting that humanity itself will fall into decline. The
richer countries siphoning of crops from third world countries to create
bio-fuel; the third world countries slowly fading in hunger. We need to
find sustainable power and we need it fast; our very existence depends
upon it.
Solar Power
When we think of alternative energy resources, solar power immediately
comes to mind. Evidently when we talk of solar power, we speak of
harnessing the suns god given energy. This solar energy is transformed
into electric current with the use of photovoltaics, concentrating solar
power and other various technologies which are currently in the
developmental and experimental stage. Solar energy works well for
domestic electricity supply.
Wind Power
Employed for ages with remnants of its bygone past still evident in
Northwestern Europe, the Wind Mill is making a come back. The best thing
about the power of the wind is that it can never be depleted. It is
natural, all around us and all we have to do is construct wind farms and
then everything’s done. Economically utilizing the power of the wind
makes sense. It literally has no maintenance and overhead costs.
Tropical countries use hydroelectricity as their source of power, using
the waters gravitational force which comes from a high source. This is a
great alternative for energy, it is a whole lot cheaper and it is
environmentally safe because hydroelectric plants do not emit dangerous
substances in the air nor the waters. It is pure nature. Fossil fuel
driven power plants emit dangerous gases into the air while plants that
are hydroelectrically driven are proven to emit a much lesser degree of
greenhouse grass.
Nuclear Energy
Another source of alternative energy is nuclear energy. Nuclear energy
together with other kinds of nuclear technology can harness energy.
Nuclear reactors can generate steam energy by heating the water thus
converting water into steam and then converting the steam into
electricity. Nuclear energy are widely used in vessels and ships from
all over the world.
Geothermal Power
Geothermal power is the heat that is being amassed down below from the
earth’s surface. This is another way of making conventional power than
that of fossil driven plants which is very much costly. This power is
much feasible and also another environmental friendly alternative source
of power driven by nature itself.
One big geothermal plant can power up to one whole urban community,
supplying all the power it needs while a small geothermal plant can
power up a small village and small buildings. One good thing about
natural sources such as this one is that a geothermal power plant does
not harm the air or the ozone layer because they do not emit poisonous
gasses while in operation.
Using any of these alternative power sources can help us and the earth
as well. It is cost effective and they are much less harmful to the
earth. Using bio-fuel and using alternative power sources can be a way
to save the earth and this is the future of our world.
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