Thursday, December 1, 2011



Why not use renewable energy?

Valerie López Carrasquillo

Energy availability of renewable energy sources is higher than traditional energy sources, yet their use is limited for now. In the following model of sustainable energy development, renewable energy sources are considered inexhaustible (sort of unlimited) while also having the advantage of clean energy (no pollutants are made during the process), defined by the following features:
-The energy-conversion systems pose a low-to-none environmental impact.
- No added potential risks in their use.
- Indirectly enrich other natural limited resources
- The proximity and transportation of energy to production sites to consumption sites may be easier in many cases.
- It can be an alternative to conventional energy sources, with the high possibility of starting a process of gradually replacing them.

Using renewable energy we could do many things; Many people like to exercise in the house and do not connect circuits to transfer that energy to household utensils such as stove, refrigerator, TV, etc..

Even better why not create a kind of fan that is loaded with wind and then use that energy to make the fan as you marched for renewable energy in the home electronic devices.
I found this on the internet that is a small example of how we could use renewable energy:


The energy must be generated, stored, processed and transported to be consumed by people, factories and other types of energy-consuming artifacts. Depending on various factors, like the distance between production and consumption centers, the economic and environmental costs are affected.

From a bigger point of view, the production and consumption of energy is, most likely, the biggest and most important instrument for development and production of practically everything, and it is directly linked to welfare and economic growth, which means that an increase in clean energy offer could allow companies to increase their demand without environmental impacts while also increasing their production facilities and growing as a company too.

Modern societies also wish to have a healthier environment, so they’re also trying to minimize any ecological impact involved in the energy production from traditional sources such as Natural Gas and Oil. It is for this important reason that the most important factor today is to encourage energy-saving methods while also introducing cleaner energy production facilities to minimize any kind of negative impact while also improving energy efficiency in consumer products, industrial process, transportation and others.

Today, modern companies have also made the jump into cleaner energies by themselves, and have even found ways to use energy with the use of cogeneration systems, as in, systems that allow the energy released to be reused, and in doing so avoids spending more on production. An example of this is the regenerating braking system found in hybrid vehicles: When the driver brakes, the driveshaft is separated from the wheels and starts to rotate an electrical alternator that, while braking the car, recharges a battery and recovers some of the energy used to push the car in the first place. Also, institutional and government campaigns have started to offer different incentives to promote the use and installation of renewable energy systems in houses and manufacturing facilities throughout the country. Industrialized countries, in order to avoid energy dependence to third parties, are encouraging diversification of energy sources and trying to achieve the most energy-auto-efficiency possible with renewable energy sources and minimizing the use of traditional not-renewable ones.

With all this, is done to minimize the environmental costs, maintaining the same levels of "being made" in part by reducing pollution, and complies with international agreements to preserve the environment.

Nevertheless, they still do not solve the major outstanding issues of resource depletion, and the total suppression of acts that cause environmental problems. Just as obvious is the solution to address an inequality different energy between countries.

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