With All The Renewable Energy Sources, Why Use Anything Else?

The world will never run out of renewable energy sources.  It doesn’t make sense that more of the world isn’t utilizing them.  Much of the world, including the United States, is still using up fossil fuels in order to produce energy.  The frightening thing is that the places that are using the fossil fuels are the countries that use more energy than any other place on the planet.  We will eventually run out of fossil fuels, then what will we do?

There are renewable energy sources that can be used in every city, every region, and every part of the world.  Sources such as the sun, the wind, and water are very easy to use to produce energy, and they are cheaper to use than fossil fuels, too.  Some smart cities are going green and realizing the benefits of it.  The rest of us should follow suit, and fast.

The most common sources of renewable energy are solar energy, wind energy, and hydropower energy.  Solar energy comes from the sun and can be used to produce electricity, heat water, and for solar cooling.  Wind energy can be used to produce electricity, as can the energy that can be captured from flowing water, called hydro energy or hydropower.

Some less commonly known sources of renewable energy are hydrogen energy, geothermal energy, biomass energy, and ocean energy.  Hydrogen and biomass energy come from plants and the organic matter that they produce.  These energies can be used as fuel sources to power automobiles and farm equipment, as well as to produce electricity.  Geothermal energy comes from beneath the Earth.  It captures the internal heat of the Earth and can be used to produce electricity as well as to heat and cool buildings.  Ocean energy is sort of a combination of geothermal and hydro energy, using the water heated by the sun as well as the energy from the ocean’s waves.

With so many sources of renewable energy, why would we use anything else?  Renewable energy is cleaner, with little to zero carbon output, it is much cheaper, and just as efficient as fossil fuel energy.  If those in charge are worried about miners losing their jobs, put them to work building wind turbines instead.