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Renewing Alternative Energy For A Sustainable World

By Dale Green

We don't notice it often since we are so focused on petroleum and its derivatives, but there are many other alternative sources of energy which are in abundance on our planet. These sources are virtually in exhaustible and have been used across the globe in many different forms. However, they have just been used in lieu or the deficiency of petroleum and not as the primary sources.

We continuously benefit from the energy that comes from the sun, the wind, and from all the powers and energy that comes from the earth. However, we mostly fail to recognize and make use of the alternative energy and we tend to leave these alternative sources of energy undeveloped up to now. Since most of our fossil fuel supplies are now worn-out, the local government is taking into serious consideration the transitioning of natural resources into clean and renewable alternative energy.

This process of generating domestic energy may be quite easy if the steps to be taken are the ones used for turning fossil fuels into oil. By developing these steps further, the fossil fuels can be turned into different types of energy like gas, diesel, and petroleum. But the process it will take to develop these may cost our government a huge amount of money.

Transitioning may not sound familiar to most of us until now, since this process is done only in some countries. But the transitioning of alternative energy to become useful for everyone is the right thing to do not only to conserve energy, but to save the mother earth as well from total depletion. This will also lessen the causes of global warming which then causes different turbulence and tragedies throughout the world.

Solar power is a renewable form of energy. Harnessing this form of energy involves buying apparatus which initially is more costly than harnessing the energy provided by the conventional fuels. However, we need to take this difference into our stride because this will happen when we make a change from conventional to non-conventional sources of energy. It's not practical to think that we can just switch to the renewable sources and just do away with all the conventional sources of energy overnight. The change will be expensive ad gradual.

From the time of Michael Faraday, the British Scientist who is known as the father of electricity in'00s till today, nothing is really changed as far electricity generation is concerned. Despite the fact that electrical energy can be generated in seven different ways, till today the transforming kinetic energy into electricity or the electromagnetic induction method still remains the most popular. Utilizing these new forms of energy will require a look at the fundamentals, re education of the basic principles and a lot of learning.

The progress of photovoltaic technology has really been fast in the last few years. However, the problem still remains that mechanical power is still cheaper than the photovoltaic solar panels. There has been a 40% enhancement in the capacity in places like New Jersey, California, Japan and Germany. It's been predicted that in the coming year's solar power will become more practical than petroleum with the new innovations in the market.

Creating or renewing the source of power or energy we have now is possible with different developments and researches. Whatever mistakes happened and committed in the past may be repeated once again, but the good thing is there are a lot of things that we can learn from them as new methods are being generated. It is good that children are now aware of the power and energy we get from the sun, wind, and earth through the help of educational programs. This will help each of us to be aware of how to protect our mother earth from being polluted by renewing alternative energy for the benefit of each mankind.

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