Why Renewable Energy Solutions? |
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| Written by Will Downing | |
| Friday, 28 November 2008 | |
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Seem suprising that I ask that? Well we do see it all over the media that the climate is shot to pieces. Every day we have a fuel crisis where it's either too expensive or we haven't got any left. Solutions that get proposed seem to frighten more than put anyone's mind at rest (try Chernobyl). Amongst that scaremongering are there and facts and figures that let us work out where we actually are with this? OK, the bad news is that by 2056 there will be no fossil fuels left. The oil wells will be dry by the middle of the century. This is not good news, because whilst it may not effect us, the generations that follow are going to want heat and light and warmth and energy to do all of the things we take for granted today. What is their option going to be? Now, to be honest, David Hume says we'll never run out. But I place little trust in a man who's been dead for over 230 years. I mean after all, back then we didn't have the consumption that we have now. Heck, we didn't even have cars, let alone trains and jet planes. No, I don't think David Hume is a good yardstick to judge the energy crisis on. Now you'd think that as a race of people who have limited resources, we'd be more than happy to share what we've got around everyone, right? That if you were lucky enough to be born in a region of the world where the majority of the oil was situated then you'd let your fellow man have access to as much of it as he or she needed? Of course not - just look at the conflicts going on at the moment in Iraq - more than a little related to oil. That's just for starters. We could make lists of issues and problems cause by the reliance on traditional energy sources, but I think you get the idea. There is a need to change direction and rethink how we power everything, or we're going to have serious problems.
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