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Article #96: Alternative Energy Solutions In A Time Of Power Crisis

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It is unofficial - but around the world option. Wind turbines generate
many of us agree on one thing: it is very electricity by rotary motion that is
likely that there will be an energy caused by the airflow.
crisis in the future. We all know energy Some of the negatives associated with
is a big issue in the contemporary world, wind energy and wind turbines lie in the
and we have been convinced that humanity unpredictability of wind. For example, no
is at a crucial crossroads in its history wind means the turbine does not rotate
because we face an energy shortage. Many and electricity is not generated. Sites
experts believe this problem can only be are another problem; rows and rows of
solved by the use of alternative energy wind turbines are just not feasible in a
solutions. city of a few million people. The most
By energy, I mean the fuel that drive our important issue however lies in cost
cars, give us electricity and enables us effectiveness, most power companies are
to enjoy modern amenities we feel so still reluctant to invest in or buy their
vulnerable without. Fossil fuels have power from companies that use wind
been the prime source of energy for human turbines. This is changing as governments
society since the beginning of the around the world have started subsidizing
industrial revolution. These fossil fuels power generation through alternative
have been the muscles, which have enabled sources like wind.
us to progress and develop to such There are other possible sources of
dizzying heights. We face a problem in renewable energy; tidal energy uses the
the 21st century because our stocks and energy of the ocean and is an effective
reserves of these fossil fuels are though rather geographically limited
running low; this news is worsened by the source of power, thermal energy from the
fact that these reserves cannot be earth taps geysers and other underground
renewed. Many governments and private sources of heat. This is a very important
agencies have started promoting source of energy in places like Iceland -
Alternative Energy Solutions to overcome it is also geographically limited in its
the looming energy crisis caused by the suitability. Nuclear energy can be
depletion of the non renewal's sources of considered a potentially inexhaustible
energy that all fossil fuels - coal, all source of power. However, it could have
oil and natural gas - represent. many dangerous complications and most
Alternative Energy Solutions include all environmentalists fear its use.
prime movers that can use a renewable New technological innovations like fuel
natural resource to produce energy. This cells are still a long way off from truly
may be wind, thermal energy from the becoming substitutes to the fossil fuel
earth, and wave action in the shores and powered internal combustion engines that
solar energy from the sun. Alternative have driven us all this far down the
energy resources can also include new road. Indeed looking at all the possible
technology like fuel cells. However the sources of alternate energy and
primary fuel humanity has long depended especially renewable, wind and
on has been oil. We now know from our own hydroelectric projects are the only two
projections that the oil reserves in the viable long term sources, solar power is
world are slated to be unviable by 2050. a potentially huge alternative source of
Simply put, the world is running out of energy but it has a technological
gas! In addition, not to mention, time. handicap-we do not posses the engineering
The utilization of other forms of energy expertise to make better solar cells.
is therefore very important. When we Solar cells are also very costly to
speak of alternative energy, it usually produce and are not cost effective - even
means the production of electricity via less so than wind.
the use of some natural and renewable Given all the setbacks we currently are
resource. What are these renewables, one unable to overcome, it will still be some
may ask. Someone else may extend this time yet before we can throw away the
line of questioning and say: Are these polluting but efficient, fossil fuel
renewable resources as efficient as the guzzling machines that we so fondly know
fossil fuels? Below are some answers. as cars. The use of alternative energy
Wind energy is the word that comes to sources is a very important area of
mind whenever people talk of renewable research and demands humanity's
energy sources. Humans have harnessed the attention.
wind to drive machines since medieval As soon as fuel supplies run out on us,
times. In the 21st century we use wind we may have to go back to that ultimate
turbines to produce electricity. As a transport machine to take us places: our
source of power, wind is an excellent legs.






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