| The question of how we are going to meet our future | | | | to how viable wind power is as a future energy |
| energy needs is something that all energy suppliers | | | | provider! As it is, wind power already provides a great |
| have been thinking about for years and are now | | | | deal of the fuel that powers many electric plants. This |
| working out. With the five main sources of renewable | | | | is why we have been seeing wind turbines popping up |
| energy already being tapped to create the electricity | | | | all over the place in the past few years. What do you |
| that we need more and more and crops like corn and | | | | think the wind mills in Holland and the Netherlands are |
| soybeans being used to create the biofuels that are | | | | there for? These wind mills aren't only for decoration; |
| being used more and more there is no doubt that we | | | | they are actually part of the plan to harness the |
| will never run out of electricity or fuels to run our | | | | power of the wind to meet the future energy needs |
| vehicles. The main question here is this: can we get rid | | | | of that area of Europe. |
| of our long dependence on fossil fuels and switch | | | | Water/Hydroelectric Power |
| totally over to the renewable energy sources that will | | | | Using the power of water and waterfalls in creating |
| more than meet our future energy needs? Let's look | | | | hydroelectric power is one of the future energy |
| at how each of the renewable energy sources will | | | | sources that no one can really say is not that |
| meet out future energy needs. | | | | effective. When you stop to think about the pure, |
| Solar Energy | | | | sheer power that running water possesses and |
| Solar energy is one of the most useable and abundant | | | | passes along to us in the form of currents; it is any |
| of the renewable energy sources that we have on | | | | surprise that this renewable energy source is also one |
| this planet. The next question that is likely to be coming | | | | of the most dependable sources for our future energy |
| is how viable is solar power as a future energy source | | | | needs? Only having all of the water evaporating and |
| when the Sun's core will burn out in time thus rendering | | | | bodies of water disappear will change this. |
| it useless. Well, put it this way, the Sun's core will not | | | | Biofuels |
| be burning out any times in the next 100, 1,000 or even | | | | Biofuels are another great renewable source that can |
| 10,000 years! It will take more like a few hundred | | | | easily meet our future energy needs. This is due to the |
| thousand or a few million years before the Sun even | | | | fact that biofuels are made from corn, soybeans |
| gets close to extinction and goes supernova. | | | | soybean oil and vegetable oil. How's that for |
| Wind Power | | | | renewable energy folks?! |
| Given the fact that the wind the drives our weather | | | | For more information check out my Squidoo lens |
| patterns is so prevalent, there really is no question as | | | | renewable energy. |