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ENERGY ALTERNATIVES
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POWER - Although some countries act as though there is no energy crisis, in fact they have departments for such matters, that are there to advise for how much longer they can abuse their positions in world politics, to take advantage of other countries and keep on killing species and warming the planet - before their kleptocratic inclinations are compromised.
The adverse effects of burning fossil fuels have left us in dire need of alternatives such as wind and solar power. These sources generated 7.5% of worldwide electricity in 2018, a share that has increased markedly is a rapidly growing industry.
Meeting the world's needs for
electricity, heating, cooling, and power for transport in a sustainable way is widely considered to be one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Worldwide, nearly a billion people lack access to electricity, and around 3 billion people rely on smoky fuels such as
wood, charcoal or animal dung in order to cook. These and fossil fuels are a major contributor to air pollution, which causes an estimated 7 million deaths per year. Production and consumption of energy emits over 70% of human-caused
greenhouse gas emissions.
Cost–benefit analysis work has been done by a disparate array of specialists and agencies to determine the best path to decarbonizing the energy supply of the world. The IPCC's 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C says that for limiting warming to 1.5 °C and avoiding the worst effects of climate change, "global net human-caused emissions of CO2 would need to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero around 2050." As part of this report, the IPCC's working group on climate change mitigation reviewed a variety of previously-published papers that describe pathways (i.e. scenarios and portfolios of mitigation options) to stabilize the climate system through changes in energy, land use, agriculture, and other areas.
The pathways that are consistent with limiting warning to approximately 1.5 °C describe a rapid transition towards producing electricity through lower-emission methods, and increasing use of electricity instead of other fuels in sectors such as transportation.
The deployment of renewable energy technologies increases the diversity of electricity sources and contributes to the flexibility of the international infrastructure system and its resistance to central shocks, especially where off-grid installations are widely used.
Fusion power is a theoretical form of power generation in which energy will be generated by using nuclear fusion reactions from hydrogen to produce heat for electricity generation and distribution. In a fusion process, two lighter atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus, and at the same time, they release energy. Today this is just a pipedream. But what a dream.
Biofuels have been researched using many different sources including ethanol and algae, these options are substantially cleaner than the consumption of petroleum. "Most life cycle analysis results for perennial and ligno-cellulosic crops conclude that biofuels can supplement anthropogenic energy demands and mitigate green house gas emissions to the atmosphere".
Geothermal can potentially lead to other sources of fuel, if companies would take the heat from the inner core of the earth to heat up water sources we could essentially use the steam creating from the heated water to power machines, this option is one of the cleanest and efficient options.
Hydro-electric which has been incorporated into many of the dams around the world, produces a lot of energy, and is very easy to produce the energy as the dams control the water that is allowed through seams which power turbines located inside of the dam.
With the amount of solar energy that hits the world in one hour there is enough energy to power the world for one year. With the addition of solar panels all around the world less pressure is taken off the need to produce more oil.
The power of the waves can be harnessed with electricity generators of various designs. Rivers can have water turbines installed to capture tidal energy and there are boats that propel themselves just from the movement of the waves.
Wind power or wind energy is the use of air flow through wind turbines to provide the mechanical power to turn electric generators and traditionally to do other work, like milling or pumping. Wind power is a sustainable and renewable alternative to burning carcinogenic fossil fuels, and has much less effect on the environment.
LIGHTSOURCE
& BP - According
to their website solar pv farms could generate 12% of total global power by 2040, in a scenario based on recent trends. That could grow to 21% in a scenario consistent with the
Paris climate goals.
LONG TERM SECURITY
It can also involve entering into international agreements to underpin international energy trading relationships, such as the Energy Charter Treaty in Europe. All the concern coming from security threats on oil sources long term security measures will help reduce the future cost of importing and exporting fuel into and out of countries without having to worry about harm coming to the goods being transported.
We recommend that exporters of oil and gas should work twice as hard to cushion the effects to their economies, about which importers should work sympathetically to wean them off oil addiction, even though they may be facing a glut of what would be then, an un-saleable commodity. Maybe even an internationally illegal commodity - when the majority of countries vote to bring in new laws to prevent global warming ever becoming a threat again to humanity.
THE LONG & SHORT OF IT
In the short term we are reliant on fossil fuels to take us into an age of long term energy security.
LINKS & REFERENCE
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/what-we-do/alternative-energy.html https://www.lightsourcebp.com/ https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/AlternativeEnergySources.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy www.altenergy.org/
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