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In this technological era, some advancements have potential to make our world cleaner and greener. Do you think that it is possible? That people would start doing it in their own little ways that they can eventually have an impact on our environment?

Lots of scientific studies are out there being researched and developed, for example, the artificial photosynthesis. It's where you make a plastic coating of some sorts that will get CO2 or something and make cleaner air. That's where it's going to boom when it's practical to make for everyone to use.

Do you believe that the research papers now can have an impact? Cite examples and do you think that it's possible?

It just seems that there are no people interested in how to help the world knowing that we are destroying our planet. I wanted to have a healthy discussion about what can we do even if it's a little thing to help the environment. 

 Maybe you simply picked the wrong section for such a discussion.  Many don't venture into the off-topic area.
Move your post to politics and society -  you'll likely get a response in that section.

Thanks for the advice. Just moved this topic here and looking forward to responses, really interested in these things.

We must start with the proper education of children and improve the economic situation. Maximally reduce the use of internal combustion engines, do not burn plant waste.

If we are talking about renewable energy, the best and the most efficient is to use the power of the sun. If we can just run cars using solar power and run factories using this energy then pollutants such as smoke belching from cars will be taken care of.  The world must ban the use of plastics and cellophane and if not must make some new technology to reduce garbage without releasing pollutants to air, land and water.

I really agree on renewable energy, it's really saving our planet and reduce the global warming but of course this need a lot of research and cooperation from all people and we know one day we will run out of energy source so we cant depend on those energy source, but some people simply don't want to know, they will only realize when the problem already at critical point, it is really important to keep on developing this technology so we will save our earth

alternative energy is a demand in the technology world, but it is still difficult to implement alternative energy, high cost of equipment and supplies, and people still believe in conventional energy. This is due to the world economic turnaround can not be separated from mining, and mining absorb human resources are still many.

The new energy has been widely found, for example, which is owned presidents abad , before the Civil War syuria iran, electricity and nuclear power plant technology was terrible, using the formula E = mc ², I see this energy applied from a movie called zeroday genre documenrty . but still plenty of choice energy, such as solar panels, wind and waves, this is better than the use of nuclear energy.

It shouldn't stop right there. Education is probably the key essential part in understanding but the main thing, I think, is to show them what is CURRENTLY happening in our world. How it affects the world, in the long run, the part where there are small things that can be done and because of the lack of understanding and knowledge, they don't do it. Something like that.

Then why are we here in the first place if we don't study? Maybe there are just some other people that can't afford but would like to, and if they were given the chance, probably they would do their best and that's why there are scholarships given to the people. I hope if I have money, I would like to offer my finances, but I don't.

The main problem with renewable energy is that it is not very affordable. Look at solar panels and wind power turbines. They cost a lot, and they require constant maintenance. The only affordable renewable energy source is Uranium. 

The reason why renewable energy is expensive, it's because the materials used to manufacture those kinds of devices are hard to get meaning more price will come from that. Solar panels have different specifications also and that comes with a price and how much energy you could store in your storage. That's one of the problems of renewable energy, how to store it.

Why store this energy, if the endless defect of solar and wind energy will be generated constantly, so you will need to consume it. And now a very large selection of materials for the creation of such a station. And the prices depend only on the materials themselves.

Renewable energy is good source reduce the carbon dioxide that goes into the atmosphere because of the energy you use ,it is useful to us it can maybe save our environment due to global warming and climate change. it will also improving our energy security.

First of all, this is independence from other countries that abuse their resources in the market. But at the expense of saving the planet I think it's too late to talk. Mankind has long started the irretrievable process of destroying the planet, and only the question remained, sooner or later.

Use your brains. How can solar panels generate electricity during the night, when the electric consumption is the highest. Similarly, how can the wind turbines generate electricity when there is no wind? That's why we need to store the electricity.

If scientist were able to make a solar cell with at least 70 percent of efficiency, It would solve the entire energy problems of the entire world. Cars will all switch to solar powered cars which will eventually help tackle global warming.

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Solar energy in the sahara

No. That will not solve the problem. They need to design solar panels which needs the minimum maintenance (especially in the desert areas such as Sahara, this is a big problem). Also, they need to increase the lifespan of these panels. Then they need to design special batteries, which can store the electricity generated by these panels.

Maybe he just doesn't know what the problems that renewable energy is facing and why it's not easily accessed or installed to some countries. It's still being researched on what kind of material would be the best fit for the efficiency. That's the challenges of the renewable energy, and that's what the cases are, and they are tackling the problem head on.

It's not that simple, some companies that manufacture those kinds of solar cells has already achieved 70% efficiency, but the problem is, if they mass produce it, it's going to be really expensive and not practical for people to buy it. It's being researched still and hoping that a favorable material would overcome the challenges the solar panels it's facing.

One advantage with the solar panels is that the raw materials are easily available. But if the researchers can improve the lifespan of these panels, then it will be a huge boost to the proponents of the renewable energy.

Yeah, which is the primary source for the ingots, silicon. They can get it easily and they can manufacture it to silicon wafers which then be attached to some integrated circuits. It will be a breakthrough with renewable energy concerning on the sunlight. That's one of the abundant energy source available.

Renewable Energy? The horse on a treadmill.    8)

LOL. What about Uranium? IMO, Uranium is a renewable resource (as there are enough deposits to cover the current consumption levels for the next few thousand years), and it is very cheap as well.

While the horse is being slapped, that's so sad  :(. Don't do that. I don't think that Uranium is very ideal since it's radioactive. I don't know, it might cause some side effects to humans or other species as well.

I don't think treadmill horse is renewable. Someone has to feed the horse. Farming requires a TON of fuel for growing crops. If you let the horse eat grass naturally, then it is no longer on a treadmill. Horse also emit methane which is greenhouse gas. Treadmill horse is not good idea.

Well good things starts here from small things. I think there are even regular paints that cleans the air and it is now being used in some countries to counter pollution. Tech advancements doesn't have to be all negative effects on the environment as it can do the same thing to save it as well as harm it.

First i would like to say that it would be grate if scientist would make some new technology that could provide alternative source of energy. And hopefully it would be better than technology that we use today. Health of planet we live on is important. Many people don't take it seriously and I think that won't end well, if we don't do something to clean everything a bit.

Unfortunately, the EPA requires additional investments. Not interested manufacturers. Many people use the principles of "After me the deluge". I think that the impetus for the development of alternative technologies can only be a reduction in the cost of energy. Now the price of energy produced from alternative sources over traditional methods. In this situation, I do not see prospects of development of alternative technologies.

There is a lot of propaganda going on against nuclear power plants. But let's look at the facts in an unbiased manner. Since the construction of the first nuclear power plants, how many people have been killed as a result of radiation poisoning from these plants? My guess is less than 100. OK... let's take a liberal figure of 1,000.

Now let's compare this figure with the number of deaths from the pollution caused by thermal power plants. Here is the figure:

India (per year): 115,000 deaths (including 10,000 children), 170,000 cases of bronchitis, and 21 million asthma cases.
USA (per year): 13,000 deaths & 20,000 heart attacks.
China (per year): 250,000 deaths.

Now please tell me which one is more dangerous. Coal or Uranium?

Nuclear energy is more clean, but the problems are in the event of an accident. Remember Chernobyl and Fokusimu. On the other hand there is a problem with storage of radioactive waste.

i believe we can do it if the problem comes relvant enough, mabye in few decades people can be more aware and start actually worrying about it anough to care

How many people died in Chernobyl and Fukushima? The numbers are only a small fraction of those who die every day from the pollution from coal-fired plants. And now technology has also progressed. The chances of a nuclear accident is near zero.

It's just a joke and it's not considered to be a renewable energy. A horse is not a natural occurring and not exhaustible source of energy. It gets tired, hungry and what not. Lol

You're scaling it in a different sample size. Both are hazardous, but definitely, Uranium is more efficient since it can produce a lot more energy compared to coal, but mishandling by people could cause more unfortunate events also. Human intervention on things would likely be the cause of a failure there, but since coal was used first, a lot of studies has been carried out there.

Yeah, probably. From those fatal cases, there are certain solutions invented now that would definitely increase the safety of nuclear plants, I just hope mother nature wouldn't intervene.

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Yes. They have invented more safety measure after the fatal Chernobyl incident, however, my question is, have we learned our lesson from the accident that will prevent us from future devastation again? For me, we need some courage to really think that phasing out nuclear power and replacing with renewable energy source to reduce somewhat the risk of nuclear proliferation globally. Because radiation that releases from nuclear accidents affects future generation so reducing them also help our children's children and the next generation of humans on our planet.

Unfortunately it is impossible to foresee everything. Whatever protection there is always the chance of an accident. That is why I am against nuclear power plants. Companies that sell electricity produced her a lot and sell everything. I am advocating that every home produced a bit of energy for myself, but it is not beneficial to plant owners, and so it is slowly moving to alternative technologies.

I agree with you. Nuclear power is to devastating and accidents happens, even with bellow one percent for accident to happen. And maybe there are not many lives taken when Chernobyl happened, but think of polluted soil that is not usable for so long after. Nuclear energy is to dangerous if you ask me.

It is impossible. Not every time would be perfect but I think it could be perfected. Some companies are going with the renewable energy but I think what can be most efficient when it come to energy is the nuclear part. There could be different things be done when researching about it.

Large-scale electricity production is always the cheaper option (if you take in to account the maintenance and labor costs). That is one of the reasons why the government is not forcing anyone to produce electricity for themselves. I don't know.... may be in the future this scenario will change.

I use chinese unpressure vacuum tubes water heater, it work OK for me.

But utilization of Renevable Electricity is not a safe thing.

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It seems to me that the cheaper technologies for the Autonomous production of electric energy is braked due to the fact that large power producers do not want to lose their positions. The same situation is happening with electric vehicles.

Today, it is very good to build power stations for yourself and get alternative energy from the sun and wind. And sell the excess to the state but the green tariff. In my country, this practice exists. Practically money for surplus enough to pay more and gas and other things.

I agree with you, to have your own power station of some kind is best way. In my country im not sure about the law for making electrical energy or selling it to someone. But i saw some houses with solar panels and i think that is great way for one house to lower there paying for electricity. It would also be great if i could supply whole my house with alternative source of energy, and not to depend on some company.

Scientists have already developed opportunities to collect solar energy in space and through electrical signals transmit through repeaters from orbit to earth. Perhaps this will be a good leap forward in alternative energy supply technologies.

Currently, Japanese scientists are taking the first steps in this direction. So, they managed wirelessly using microwaves, transmit 10 kilowatts of electricity over a distance of 500 metres. It is planned that the satellites will be at a height of more than 35 thousand kilometers, so the transmission system and the electricity will find a long term improvement.

I think the utilities and electricity company owners are somehow against that because they have the chance of losing clients of their business that will cause the owners to do something about it. Adopting renewable energy would really help the planet, it's just that, some people are also in the way and they do not believe in global warming.

Global warming is a reality, and we have solid scientific evidence to prove it. Those who deny it are either mentally handicapped, or under the payroll of big corporations. Some people deny climate change for political mileage. For example, in West Virginia if you oppose coal mining, then you'll never get elected.

Which is very very dangerous now for us. The fact that these big corporations have that much influence over how we act towards global warming makes it harder make significant steps in avoiding this. Trump doesnt believe that global warming is actually happening. I think the sad part is that we'll all be at the receiving end of global warming once it goes full circle

In my country, I do not see signs of warming. Can certainly there is some evidence of global warming, but it seems to me that evidence that is a consequence of human activities there. On earth there have been periods of warming and cooling before the advent of people. Maybe we witnessed such a period?

In every single country, we are witnessing signs or consequences of global warming. In my country, we are facing drought like situation, similar to what happening in Brazil and California. In Russia, the permafrost is melting. In the Antarctic, the ice sheets are disintegrating. Look around, the evidence is everywhere.

In my country as well the signs of global warming is very evident to see, The sun is scorching hot like crazy, If one dares and walk in it for 30 minutes. Its bound to have sickness for the person. Nuclear energy and other types of energy that causes harm to the atmosphere must be stopped am sure if the governments of the world put their resources together we will have a solar cell capable of harnessing about 90% of the sun's energy.

It seems to me that you contradict yourself. If the glaciers melt then the water level should rise on the contrary, and you say that in your country the drought. Something's not right. In addition, this winter was unusually cold.

But can it be too late now? As we know, technology has gone so far that majority of word depends on fossil fuels, so is it too late now to switch to renewable energy? Will the Oil companies allow that?

Technology will evolve in time. Remember industrial age, well if you ask me i would not like to live in that time. All that pollution... but if that time didn't exist we would not have what we have today. I believe that in future, human kind will find out some kind of non-polluting way of producing energy, but till that day come we must endure a bit of pollution :/ . I hope that day will come soon. :D

I am fearful that by the time when we dont have to endure Pollution anymore we would be already dead killed by the very pollution.

Well that is also a possibility, and maybe it will happen who knows :D . But till this day human race has survived a lot of difficult situation and gone true some really polluting moments. Always adapting and learning new things, and exploring alternative possibility. I think that will happen again and again and again. Unless we destroy our self from face of earth. But that won't happen because people care for good of earth and people on it, we speaking of this means that some people think about it, and are doing something about it. Everything start with just a word :D .... well not everything, but you know what i mean :D .

It seems to me that the proliferation of renewable energy is unstoppable. As much money as spent on the development of these technologies will not allow to stop the movement in that direction. There is no turning back. If you have shares of oil companies it's time to sell them.

I don't think that the oil companies would allow that easily, but definitely, it can be overwritten. I hope the oil companies realize that it's time and they will see that somehow, they are affecting the environment and it's better to switch to renewable energy earlier.

As long as they are able to demonize nuclear energy the oil companies need not do anything extra. Nuclear energy is the only form of renewable energy which is affordable. All other forms of energy are expensive, when compared to the thermal energy.

The production of a very efficient machine that would capture natural energies in the earth would be really expensive. Uranium is definitely abundant in the earth and it's a good source of energy with high energy returns. Handling would definitely be an issue.

Yes and no, one awareness of research needs to be provided and easily accessible to the common person ignorance is bliss the best research papers can find amazing solutions but no one will implement them if they are not aware there is a better approach of doing things.
Over time yes research papers make an impact especially in economic matters the problem is that the incentive mechanism may not exist for some social good proposals.
Example Fracking grew fast because of the real economic gain of oil production, but solar powered rooftops are not as quickly unless green subsidies come in or new nuclear.

Adds a Fun example:
Think of all the people at the gym pedaling Bicycles
Equate all the energy people use to pedal said bicycle
Convert that energy to the display and have it power the monitor instead of plugging it into the electrical socket.

Self generating exercise bike with monitor (Simple lightbulb)
Now scale that to the whole entire set of gym equipment and volia free energy from people exercising.

The question remains who will read the research paper and then who will be brave enough to implement it and work out any kinks.

I don't think that making the research paper accessible to people will make an ordinary person knowledgeable already. If it's for the common person, I don't think that everyone would want to understand the scientific papers or something because they might get bored. There are also technical terms that surround a research paper, so it's best that the person has a technical background to make sense to all.

The initial criteria you proposed in the OP though was for people to start in their own little ways improvements to their lifestyle that reduce the amount of pollution and that these micro-adjustments in collective will have a positive impact on our environment.

Then in order for that statement to be true it eventually needs to be applied toward a real world situation from a research field, the question then becomes the time it takes for that implementation to become mainstream and widely used versus whatever is the current solution.

The same applies to industry if a CO2 Scrubber adds costs to the production end then individuals will refuse to add it unless it is mandated by the government to offset emissions.

That is why Carbon Capture was created because industries will always try to reduce costs to the minimum unless they are taxed on the byproduct hence the creation of the Carbon Credit to force companies that were really inefficient to become more efficient in regard to pollution overruns.
(In farming: I don't care that it impacts other people I'll use pesticides to increase my crop yields what happens downstream is not my business)

That said their are always efficiencies to be had that can reduce the environmental impact while still building up economic profits, think smaller microchips (less materials are needed lower electricity requirements more processor power and output which impacts size) vs Vacuum Tubes big giant TV's lot of materials needed hence heavy.

Solutions can come from industry or individuals the impact depends on the knowledge to get the widget to scale.
(Alas redundancies have also decreased due to this consumerist improvement cycle so things break more easy on the inverse scale and quality can drop in order to be cheap) Why new things break a lot more quicker than old things ^^.

That's if the people are willing to do that and study the current situation of the world. Of course, the world also aims to lessen the costs but still retains the efficiency they have. I just hope they would care enough with the wastes that comes with it and not just do it for their own selfish desire. I just hope that they realize that and care about the world we live in.

Handling is definitely an issue, and Chernobyl was a disaster which will remain in our minds for a very very long time. The incident at Fukushima didn't caused as much damage as expected. But even now, a lot of improvement is needed.

Yes that is true, and even solar energy is getting attention now and  day after day, solar panel prices is dropping down. This is good news, so that we can not rely purely on  fossil fuels that destroy our planet. Also wind energy is being utilized. I am also fascinating o some youtube videos about "free energy" but on second thought it might be scam. I hope this research on free energy will be documented properly and can be scaled up for mass production.

Whiles there is talk of Renewable energy, i think another important thing is about storing the converted energy, So far Tesla Powerwall is the most efficient battery out there and its stores 14 kWh and costs a whopping $5,500 if it can be made smaller and save much more power and the price is right, It will be of great.

I think that solar will not be enough to abandon the consumption of electricity from the grid. I do not know may need to additionally use wind energy? Unfortunately all these technologies are still very expensive and to talk about the transition for them so far.

I thinks it doable if scientist find a way to increase the efficiency of solar cells. Currently most solar cells have the average efficiency of 25% and if its increased to 75% it will be great.

Solar panels require a lot of work, only work where there is a lot of Sunny days. No I think solar panels is intermediate between the technologies that can really solve the problem of departure from hydrocarbon dependence.

The future of fuels is not oil, because there are limited sources of oil and people are starting to see that more clearly. That is why everyday there are more and more wind plants and solar plants. With power plants that we use now, we only make damage to Earth. Future lies in alternative power production, which will be safer and not lethal from people and Earth it self.

Since solar panels only work during the day, and the transmission losses are great, it is not really a substitute for the thermal energy. Solar energy needs storage in the form of batteries, which is expensive and makes the whole concept unaffordable.

Well, there are now alternative to fuels like the electric cars now. If we're talking about cars. Some people do agree with the power of just electricity, and it could be easier because you can get power in renewable energy sources. It's also beneficial to the earth, and we're not adding to the problem. If it were discovered or invented earlier, it would be mass adopted, and I hope it's taken everywhere soon. It's expensive, but it's worth it.

In this planet Earth, we would know how much we have caused the earth and we're the ones destroying it. I hope there would be something that be invented that could speed up the healing of this planet. Renewable energy could be the source of the solution with our problem, I hope so that it would be applied easily.

Not everything would be given an answer for the problem because maybe it's really hard or just expensive to do on a big scale. There should be a lot of researchers that would be budgeted in the world that they should be funded and be given a chance to be seen. It's not going to be an easy task, but I believe it can be.

I support the renewable energy, to lessen the pollution and carbon emission which make our planet hotter  and melting of those polar glaciers which resulted to catastrophe on low lying and coastal areas specially on the pacific.Many people are already displaced,we need to joined hands here to save this lovely planet.

If you look in to the recent 30 years database about climate, then you will find out how much changes our weather in comparison to previous situation. We all are familiar with the reason, nothing but increasing carbon dioxide at a alarming rate. Fossile fuel is the main responsible for occuring this situation. If we can use more solar energy then we can reduce damage. We should take measure to resolve problem and should consider using of renewable energy.

Well im in favor of the solar energy, there are a lot of land that are able to buy and sustain solar plants and the infrastructure, and there are a lots and huge proyects to implement this kind of energy in the urban sectors of the cities, we just have to accept the end of the oil era.

Well that's true, we, as humans, we destroyed the planet due to the pollution we are doing and breaking the circle of life as we know it maybe by hunting, killing just for fun and other ways that you can destroy it. It's not that easy to replace species and it's starting to decline. I hope there's a way.

I think that solar energy is not yet very promising technology. Too little energy comes from solar panels. The cost of solar energy production higher than any other. I think that the future of nuclear energy. Although it's not the most environmentally friendly method of energy production. It can better improve the safety and disposal of nuclear waste than to figure out how to get an extra 1 kilowatt from solar panels?

Despite the fact that Japan is the most advanced country in the world in the sphere of high technologies, you have already realized that nuclear energy is very dangerous. Therefore, you need to try to use alternative sources Following the example of the sun, wind and high-speed rivers.

All alternative energy sources are characterized by their low productivity and high price. Solar panels require constant maintenance linked to time of day and need to have expensive and long-lasting batteries.

Now it has become very fashionable for private farms to build their own mini power plant based on solar panels and windmills. This makes it possible not only to provide yourself with electricity, and sell the leftovers to the state at a green tariff. Thus it makes it possible to earn on alternative energy and for the miner to have his energy.

Its a good way to start the massive used of the renewable energy in country side parts, put a solar panel in the roof of the great cities is a good start to in my opinion.

Government should give tax breaks for companies who use renewable energy. That might encourage them to actually use renewables as well as stimulate the renewables sector since there would be increased demand.

There has been several proposed projects in the past but I would like that at least someone focus on extracting energy from waste. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and the less we pump out, the better. I don't know much about chemistry but I read that when burning methane, the byproducts would be just water and carbon dioxide. Sure, CO₂ is still a greenhouse gas and it's one that we're producing the most but it's still less potent than methane.

I remember Kaoshiung in Taiwan has converted an old dump site into a power plant (more reasons to segregate trash). Here in my 3rd world country, there are hog farms that collect the waste into a covered tank to produce methane, which they burn for electricity as well as for cooking.

In fact, a lot of methane. At the bottom of rivers, marshes, seas. It's silly not to use it. Can be to combat the greenhouse effect we need to protect our forests? Incentives for the production of electricity from solar panels will not help because traditional power is cheaper.

I'm a huge fan of renewables. Basically the technology is hear to go 100% green. What's really missing are big government incentives to speed up the process. That's something that really makes me sad.

Agree. Giving bonuses to using them would somehow make up for the expense of installing them. And with more people installing them, more would enter into the business to fulfill the demand. And more people in the industry means more innovation to see who can make the best for the cheapest price.

I'm a fan of cheap renewables. You can actually heat your house for free by building solar collectors yourself from scrap. There are many projects like that with the cheapest ones being built with just plastic water bottles and some tubing. If you manage to build panels yourself, you can save a lot of money each year and get instant ROI, because you won't have to put any money into the project.

Life without fossil fuel possible. Recently, it once again proved the Institute of electricity of Costa Rica (ICE), releasing a report, which stated that the country's electricity grid lasted 150 days on renewable energy. Half of these days occurred in the period from 16 June to 2 September. At this time, electricity was extracted with a variety of "green" energy sources.
According to the National center of energy control (CENCE), 80% of the electricity generated by hydropower, of 12.6% was generated by geothermal stations, and 7.6% have windmills and solar energy is brought only 0.01%.
And this is the second experiment in Costa Rica renewable energy. In 2015, the year the country endured them as much as 299 days. China, which is still jokingly referred to as "the world's factory", up to recent times has been the leader in the amount of emitted carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But earlier the situation was the following: the growth of the economy and the percentage of carbon dioxide emissions were at the same level. Now China's economy is growing, but the volume of harmful emissions is not increased. The fact is that the country actively reduce the consumption of coal and invest in renewable energy. Last year, as reported by Bloomberg, the financial investment in this sector from China was 115 billion dollars, which exceeded the volume of investments in "green" energy in the U.S. and Europe combined.
Denmark, according to the official plan of the government, by 2050, should completely abandon the use of energy fuels. Now the country has about 40% of the energy obtained via wind. Denmark has a very long coast line, that allows the construction of many wind farms.

I think there are a lot of videos that pertains to Life Hacks that can do those kinds of stuff, it is not just saving the environment by using recyclable materials, you get to save electricity that has an effect on the electricity market and it could lead to better stuff in the future. I hope everyone does it so at least we're doing something for our home, Earth.

There is nothing wrong in supporting the renewables. But you must be ready to pay the price. For example, electricity from the thermal power plants cost around $0.03 per KWh. The same from solar panels cost at least $0.10 to $0.20 per KWh. Are you ready to pay the increased price?

In our current time, we, as consumers,  not ready to participate in that kind of sense because it is expensive but really helpful, not to mention the benefits for using it but it's not practical for us.

I'm not ready. But maybe you just need to reduce the cost of production of solar panels and batteries? I do not believe that it is not possible. Elon musk said that his tile which produces electricity from sunlight cheaper than usual. But if you can produce it in 3 countries it will be even cheaper.

Nope not unless it is on the taxpayer dollar and by that I mean subsidized cost an example being subsidizing the cost of changing a lightbulb although most green investments take years to recoup even with some rebates. Installing a new water heater unless your old one is really old is a good example even the solar panels unless you can sell back to the grid at a premium.

The advantage of PV is that it releases up to one order of magnitude less toxic materials (production, while in use and recycling).
Additionaly PV cost decreased by several magnitudes (70s: 70$ per kwh; 2015: 0.30$ per kwh) while c.o.p. increased by a factor of 5-8 ( 4-5% to now up to 25%. Special designs go up to 40%).

And the development is still ongoing and not finished. We will see much better stuff for less $ in the future.

The energy which is produced by solar panels you can sell only in the daytime. They have very low productivity and so during the night you will take out more energy than the sell day.

Well you are right about solar energy, but solar is not the only way to produce electric energy. There are other safe ways of producing energy, while not damaging the nature and planet it self. More and more people are using wind, water and natural things for producing energy, and that is really great, because they get electricity and they do not damage nature.

Renewable energy must be the energy that the world must use in order to save the earth from more pollution. Instead of using charcoal and nuclear power then why dont we shift to solar power, hydro power, wind power and many more. There are many ways of producing energy and we must choose the energy that is environmental friendly and sustainable.

The oil lobby will never allow it. Until not running out of oil they will slow down the development of alternative sources of energy.

That is right, we need to be more focused on natural way of producing electricity... Well that is only till the time comes and cold fusion start to be widely used. I am more for natural and safe way of producing energy, but i can not oversee one question that comes to my mind all the time. Will solar, hydro, and wind power be enough to supply us? I do not think it will. But as far as i know, and i must say i do not know much, cold fusion is future. Maybe every house will have small fusion generator which will produce energy for them. And as far as i know, its pretty much safe.

I agree with you. It is likely that the most likely option. Maybe we will live to see it. In any case, I hope that oil will fall in price and fuel will return to a reasonable price.

Had we decided to use methane from the very beginning we probably wouldn't have this problem. Unfortunately the cheap fuel available when Ford made the combustion engine was crude oil. Or rather, what was left of crude oil after kerosene was distilled. It was basically a throw-away they thought it was really brilliant to use it for powering engines rather than just allowing it to be dumped into rivers. If they only knew...

Back to methane, I would still prefer we use those generated from biodegradable we threw away. I think that's still better than having to go ruining environment again.

Sigh, if it's only possible to just suck methane and CO₂ out of air...

I think it's not that much possible that oil would fall in price because it's different, not everything uses the oil and fuel. I think the price is going up because the resources of oil is being used up and not only that but the delivery of the oil itself is affecting the price. I hope we find other sources of energy.

Yes, it's really possible if the gov't would actually get involved more and keep politics out of this. For example, there are many options for wind power. I've seen standard wind farms, and then there are farms that are floated away from the shore. There fans that use the wind made when waves rush into a tunnel, and I've also seen like, long lines of floaters whose movement generate electricity from waves.

You are right, there are many ways to implement the wind renewable energy and by the time pass there are more and more new ways to genereate renewable energy.

And I saw in our country screw generator. Say that its design allows it to rotate at any time. Even if there is no wind.

It might actually allow us to turn global warming to our advantage. I suppose waves would start to become stronger as the seas heat up and  water level rises. Sigh, if only we can harness the power of ever increasingly strong typhoons and hurricanes.

It seems to me that the government of all countries United against alternative energy sources. This is because a very large income to the Treasury brings energy taxes. I guess the government doesn't know what to replace these revenues.

The leaders don't know the adverse effects of what we have now, especially the oil and mining community. If it isn't regulated the way it should be or following strict regulation and compliance to the rules, it should be stopped. It's not just that, it should be to help the environment, that's why it's so sad that the government wants those kinds still.

Why do you think that government leaders do not know about environmental problems? Do you think they are stupid? Believe me they know the issue better than you. Just as they are responsible for public finances. Yes they can save the environment, but it will have nothing to pay pension. How do you think they will choose?

I don't think that they are stupid, they just know that it happens but not why it happens. I do not generalize them all but there are politicians who makes science as not facts but theories. If you have seen others that do that, you will understand. Let's say you go with that option of yours, (paying pension instead of saving the planet)  happens to the place we live in? It will just be destroyed, and it's our fault because we didn't do much about it.

I think that the world will be saved by the fact that oil will end. I think that it will encourage politicians to look for new sources of funding for social programs. Personally I had hope for Elon musk, but in recent years, he departs from the projects using alternative energy sources.

I'm not updated with Elon Musk's project but I know he is trying to b one of the most technological innovated people that we had hope for. He is like the Tony Stark in real life and we know that he is rich and he is trying to make the world a better place. It's not going to be easy but I know it's going to be worth it when it comes to that.

No, he isn't. You guys haven't seen solar plants that can produce power at night? Really? They've been around for years!

http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/4/98/578498_3d72858eb96014b0eeaeb69f10b8daae_large.jpg

The Gemasolar plant is owned by Terrsol Energy, a joint venture between the Spanish construction company SENER and Masdar the futuristic zero emission UAE city
This plant deploying the molten salt CSP technology achieved an important landmark, that of 24 hours uninterrupted power production for a full month. This was achieved in June 2011, just a month after the commissioning of the plant.

http://www.solarreserve.com/en/technology/molten-salt-tower-receiver

Day dreaming too much? Elon Musk is a fraud, and you will realize this eventually. He remains in the media spotlight by bribing the MSM. He gets business by paying commissions to corrupt politicians such as John McCain.

I'm not day dreaming, I'm just saying what I see it and how I see it. I don't know how he works or how he does his research but he definitely did something to improve the world, maybe he has skeletons in his closets but TESLA does innovations especially in technological advancements and he believes in the future.

In the of vastly climate change, renewable energy would be a good platform for mitigating this problem, renewable energy can serve us source of energy but this type of energy is not sufficient for us.
So renewable energy should be developed more and storage capacity should be developed.

In my opinion it is impossible to get clear air and save planet for our children with a hands of enthusiasts. When city traffic and coal power stations around the world produce a lot of CO2, it is a task of all citizens to push their governments to implement clear technologies in our life.

Indeed there are several political partys who are in favor of renewables energy sources even in the parlaments there are minister who try to push the actual president to improved the budget in this new era of renewable energy they only need more support from the people.

Who told you that? Renewable energy is completely sufficient, but it's much more expensive to produce. That is why governments like to avoid it or dedicate only a small percent of power production to renewables to act like they care.
Renewable energy is for instance water, and you can build several dams on a single river and produce plenty of power. The only problem is cost.

Thats the bad side of renewable energy, the cost of dams the machinery and the plataforms for the production of energy by using the movements of engines propulse by water are huge, besides not every country have a river capable to do this kind of proyect.

That's why there are different types of renewable energy, the best thing I think is for the solar powered panels. Definitely, they can help power up the grid if given a chance to serve its purpose. It also depends on the country, that's why there are different designs also.

It's just not a priority for the world as a whole.  It's not even about the monetary cost.  The current energy companies are so deeply embedded into politics, that the opportunity for mass renewable energy gets very low on the list.  The US spends $700 billion a year on military....that's a higher priority than having renewable energy.  The technological constraint doesn't exist anymore.

We are depending on people like Elon, to make it his personal priority to get the needle moving.  There needs to be way more billionaires that share the same attitude.

Solar panels is a dead end energy. They are expensive and produce little energy. In addition they need constant care. They will never replace traditional sources of electricity. I do think that they were invented specifically in order to make the search for alternative sources of energy stalled.

But harvesting the energy of the sun is the best source of energy there is atm. Since it's constantly giving away huge amounts of energy and even if the current solar panels maybe aren't that good thing to harvest that energy, I still honestly believe that that's the area of technology we need to drastically improve.

I guess so, it's just not everybodys interest however there are a lot of countries funding those researches that can be of help to the society as a whole, scientists also depend on that. Definitely it's a part of our world, and saying that energy companies are in politics, I agree with that. It's all about the money right there, they wouldn't stop because they are earning from it, never cares about who gets stepped on.

Probably you don't know much about Solar Panels of today because they are a lot more efficient now than ever before. The problem with solar panels now is how they store the energy because the sun isn't around all the time. When you buy solar panels, it depends on the company, and they give warranties and stuff. They are invented because the energy sources that we have are depleting and causes problems here on our planet.

In terms of research, the technology that currently exists for solar panels and batteries is more than good enough.  But society as a whole doesn't move in that direction, only individuals do.  So it's a very slow movement.  Think about cell phones.  This was a very fast movement that the whole world got behind.  Nothing really stood in its way.  The technology was created and constantly improved, and distributed all over the world.  That type of movement isn't there for solar.  And the current interests in energy don't want to give up the control, power and money to decentralize energy into individuals having their own electricity with no dependence.

Our energy companies are "crown" corporations, meaning they are partly government organizations.  These organizations aren't open to the idea that one day they SHOULD be obsolete and replaced with either solar, geothermal, wind, hydro, etc. renewable energy.

We should protect the environment, she is our home to survive.

The government must do something concrete law that will regulate the use of toxic and harmful substances by some factories. The government must also focus in investing clean energy programs and zero carbon machine operations, these options will lessen and maybe prevent global warming as well. We can't save our planet from destruction unless we are doing something to prolong its life.

The main priority of government is to keep a job...everything else is second to that.  All the things that you mentioned should already be done, but it's the government getting in the way and looking out for special interest groups instead (groups that given the choice, people would rather not do business with).

,As the world keeps on moving, the people also are slowly evolving and adopting to the society by its changes, the result of it is either pollution or destruction of nature due to increasing population and also waste or garbages. Scientist also study or find a way to renew those garbages to be useful for example is to use it as energy and many more. We just need to be less careless and care to our nature so still it wont be destroyed and to avoid losing our planet.

The problem today I think is the lack of education in terms of our environment. Educate the people first, then good waste management practices will follow.

I really think there is and there are some that is developed and continue to be developed. I'm not sure if this is new or whatever and I can't seem to remember the details much so you might try to research it; so here it goes, there is a thing like solar panel but this time it is printed in a some kind of plastic with the use of special ink which is much cheaper than buying an actual solar panel.

Also I do believe that there are more greater things to be discovered to harness renewable energy since this world we live in has provided as the essential things needed hence we can find the components to have an energy that is nature friendly.

everythig would be possible with technology,and with human will,yes that is good movement something like artifical photosynthesis,it cn renewable some energy from plants. and if you watch "Kill Switch" movie,it tell story about renewable energy with copying earth,and then we cn absorb the energy from copied earth,is that possible for relaize?

All this will be possible when America sell all their reserves of fossil energy sources. The implementation of clean energy sources hindered the oil lobby, but it seems they are no longer able to stop the progress. What Americans sell their stocks this is a good sign for all of us.

Renewable energy is one of the vital energy source in the future, there is a problem regarding this matter, storage capacity is the main barrier of this system, energy specialist still working for the improvement of the capacity system. We know that the sun is one of the main sources of this sector, wind also a vital source of renewable energy, so when it can be improved in capacity system then renewable energy will be more useful for the future demand...

Given that America imports oil as well, it will be decades before we get to that point.  Lobbying in general is pushing a product or service that people would otherwise not choose, otherwise lobbying wouldn't be necessary.  Until the government, or the system that the government operates under changes its priorities, it will be as it is now, up to the individual (or company) to take the initiative and put up funds to invest in renewable energy.  And although it's a good start to get things changing, those individuals currently make up a very small % of the population.  Society as a whole needs to push for this for it to be implemented with scale.

It's not like we have a choice. Fossil fuel just ain't working good for us. We are destroying the planet because of it, not to mention starting wars.

IMHO best renewable resource would be sun and wind, since there's always an abundance of that. Fuel made from gas from biodegradable waste would also work in big cities which create a lot of trash daily. Geothermal seem to have no downside and should be pursued if available.

Yes i agree with you. I mean i am not scientist, but i do think that we could live on renewable energy. I think that it would be possible to produce enough energy from wind and sun, to satisfy our daily needs for electric energy. I hope that in future there will be more and more wind and sun power plants.

We are still using fossil fuels because they are much cheaper than the renewables. There is no economic sense to use the renewable sources, when they remain unaffordable to the majority of the world population. The only renewable source which can be considered as affordable is Uranium. But with the recent anti-nuclear protests around the world, it's future looks bleak.

It seems to me that the nuclear weapon I give is still very dangerous and we have a lot of opportunities on the planet to use very different sources of alternative energy. This is the power of the wind, it is the power of the sun and even the power of water, without heating the flow of the river can transform its kinetic energy into energy.

The sun would still be pumping out unimaginable amount of energy for the next couple of millennia, we just need to find ways to harness it. Same with geothermal, it's not like Earth's core would cool down anytime soon. Man, too bad I wouldn't be alive to find if humanity would be even able to build a Dyson sphere.

It have its danger but it at least don't release as much CO2. True it's better to use renewable but we are not developing them fast enough to even put a break at the way we are changing the climate. Nuclear is supposed to be some sort of temporary bail out while we get our shit together.

We are talking about nuclear energy, and not about nuclear weapons. Nuclear energy is much safer than other forms of non-renewable energy. Less than 100 people have died as a result of nuclear reactor incidents during the last 40-50 years. The same figure for thermal power plants is more than 10 million. Every year, more than a million people lose their lives as a result of the pollution from the thermal power plants.

That's true, it's good enough but thinking about it, it's the people who can really change something. A collective effort if you think about it. It's started by a person then suddenly two or more people starting using it then boom, a whole community then it will start changing the world. It's just fantasy because like you said, they want control of the energy because they want the money produced by it and definitely it's something that is really profitable. It's just that, it's not helping the world, it's helping the controller of it.

People seems to care about themselves,money,glory,and pleasure.Once time ago I spoke with a guy and told him to take off his rubbish from beach otherwise in a few years there will no exist beach for his children.His response was "I don't care at least I can enjoy the beach".We should do everything is possible that help the earth be more green and it doesn't matter how small is this act.

Unfortunately it is the opinion of most people. I saw villages in the mountains that do not have sewer and there's never trash day. It simply dumped into a mountain stream and carries it downstream. They also do not care that the bottom has congestion from debris which affects the residents of the lower village.

The economics of energy has to change before the energy will change. Every modern country in the world is a money-centric society, so all decisions they make are based on the financial implications of a decision, not the humane implications. With the exception of certain Scandinavian countries, this is a world wide issue.

Yeah exactly.  Not everyone in the world is for solar because they might have a personal financial interest against it.  And unfortunately, it is these few people that are getting in the way of mass distribution because solar is "too expensive".  It's foolish to think building and installing a solar panel is too expensive.  For oil, aside from the countless wars that surround oil, you need to test/drill for it to find it, build a rig on it, then transport the oil to ships, go half way around the world, get on trucks to distribute...and we consider this to be "cheaper".  It's a foolish way of thinking in my opinion.

Right now, my hopes lie with Tesla to take the initiative and push the distribution of solar.  Check this out...they basically converted a small island that used to use diesel fuel into a solar island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQBVoS9lAo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQBVoS9lAo)

I understand that you stayed inventing a dinner of good energy sources, but it's most likely a battery pack and food. Passed did not get cars and other such systems. But to provide cities and countries with electricity, we need more reliable energy supply systems. I consider such alternative sources to be the sun and the wind. Today in the whole world, things in this plan produce perhaps 1000 enterprises. We have everything, we just need to take it and do it.

Sorry dude, trying to understand what you're trying to say here.  If you're saying that in the past, cars didn't run on electricity, that's not the case.  Electric cars were actually around before gasoline, and it was the Rockafeller family that grew the oil industry and actually bought out the entire electrical public transport system in the states, pulled it out of the ground and replaced it with buses that ran on gas.  We are still living on the momentum of this stupidity.

For those of you that haven't seen a documentary on the Rockafeller family, definitely check it out and a lot of questions on why things are the way that they are right now, will be answered.  This one is over an hour long, but for those of you that are interested, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySnk-f2ThpE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySnk-f2ThpE)

I think his was only business that drove him to do that, why didn't his competitors choose to invest their money into electric car systems, that's very good for the atmosphere and it costs way less.

You need to start saving energy
And use it at a minimum

I have seen articles that support the older models of transportation that provides lots of Carbon Dioxide emission that is harmful to the environment and the government is trying to overrule it with the latest type of model which is newer and it is actually electric cars and the people would be beneficial but the drivers of the old models, the Jeepney in the Philippines, are rallying about it. For sure there is someone who is behind it with financial gain and I think money is all they think about.

Energy should not be wasted, but it should be used when there is a need. But still, I am against the expansion of thermal power plants. They create a lot of pollution, and every year a lot of people die as a result of this pollution. IMO, thermal power plants must be replaced with either hydro-electric plants, or nuclear power plants.

That's why there are events like Earth Hour or something because we need to conserve it and help our planet to renew the resources because you know that our planet is experiencing climate change. There are a lot of ways that you could do it it's just the political powers that stand against it because they are after with personal reasons.

i was thinking about this also i love doing something good using natural energy if someday i have a to invest i well invest in solar enegry so i can create a free alectricity all i need is sunlight to give me ah free electricity for now i was banking money to achieve my dream someday if i have inough moeny i can buy it so i can help my family and aslo helping sa world

I believe that wind power is cheaper than solar energy. In the past, I was thinking about installing solar panels in my house. But these panels were too expensive.

Earth Hour is a good concept, to spread awareness.  But one hour per year is not enough to have a meaningful impact.  Power conservation is important, and we as a society are very wasteful of electricity.  We have corporate skyscrapers that leave their lights on 24 hours a day all year even though people aren't there overnight normally, and there are only some that are starting to change that.  Again through, I feel like it will need to be a technological solution instead of depending on people to actively care about this.  The smart home concept with having all your lights, appliance and devices with connectivity, so it can be controlled centrally or even programmed with sensors, so HVAC and lights adjust automatically to be used when you need it vs. conserving energy when you don't.

If the whole world participated, it would have been something. Neither way, it's not the fact that it has a big impact, but the thought of doing something about it is what matters. Conserving energy should be everyone's goal and to see that they can somehow change the world. It might be little to you but it would be a lot for everyone as a whole. Well I hope there would be some kind of technology that would help us better and to conserve more energy in a big scale.

I absolutely believe in science so yes I think papers will influence the thinking of many people. But the biggest problem is that the politic is too slow and don't react fast enough. I think this is a very big fail of humanity. We destroy our earth and we just learn from our mistakes when it's too late. Let's see what happens in the future. But I think this will be a crazy world if we don't change much bad habbits ..

I think it's just a rare moment that there are people who don't believe in science, it would be just a life without understanding, in my opinion. I know right, it's the politics that makes everything hard because people tend to always make it about money, and it's not going to be easy anyway. It's just making everything hard knowing that we are falling in a trap of people who has the power to choose for the people, and it's just scary that people can just be tempted by greed and start from there.

Coal and the like is finite and will run out. We'll have to switch to renewable energy eventually - the question is how much we'll damage our planet before we do.

We would really have to invest on renewable energy as that would be the only way to sustain us in the long run. Earth is being destroyed bit by bit whether we admit it or not. Climate change, and visually we can see the damage that is being inflicted on this planet. With renewable energy we can keep the damage to a kinimum we can maintain our life and we would be making the world a better place.

The point we should make is even if we weren't damaging our planet the scarcity of coal is reason enough to start early at looking into alternatives so we don't end up with no viable options.

We can never test how much the humans have done to destroy the planet Earth that we are currently living in now but what ever we did, we damaged it and it's in our power to fix it or somehow make an alternative. That's why we need more alternative resources of energy.

Renewable energy in my opinion is very important than energy such as coal and petroleum that makes a lot of air pollution, I always cloudy for renewable energy to increase its usefulness. Because only in 2000 renewable energy is widely developed in various countries

But do you know why it isn't widely used? Because it's expensive, depends on the weather (in most cases but not all), and has other issues. For instance solar panels need to be kept clean and are very easily damaged by hurricanes or hailstorms. Wind generators have brakes that have to be frequently checked and maintained, if the turbine will spin out of control and self destruct. Also building a concrete tower of this size is difficult and expensive. Probably the only highly efficient plants are river dams. They can run 24/7 with the same speed, don't need a lot of maintenance, but the construction costs are still high.

There are wind generators which do not require the construction of concrete towers. You can see these wind turbines in the Arab countries. They provide electricity for drilling rigs. Although hydroelectric power plant at the moment is the cheapest form of electricity production.

It is expensive for a reason and you know that it's more expensive to us if we didn't do something about the depleting resources that we have on this planet. It's like letting someone destroy your home for nothing and you are doing nothing about it. It's continuously evolving, the ways that we can get energy and there is always research, that's for sure. There is nothing perfect in this world that's why there are trial and error happening around us and that we need to make sure that we support it, who else will if no one is out there to support? Continuous research is good for everyone of us.

Renewable sources of energy is not just on papers nowadays...
a lot of people has already started such endeavors.
but there are even more people, who doesn't have enough knowledge on these
as a result they tend to go on with the conventional way of attaining energy...
hopefully someday it will really come true that all of us will promote renewable source.

Solar and Wind are great sources of renewable energy that should be adopted by more countries.

So that the best thing we should do is to educate ourselves on how to take good care the things that benefits us a lot. And energy from the sun is the most important energy that we should have if we don't want those  renewable energy. We should have discipline within ourselves to avoid using those very expensive renewable energy.

The only issue with solar and wind energy is the massive capital cost and the significant maintenance expenses. IMO, the best source of renewable energy is Uranium (if the waste is disposed off carefully).

Exactly, because we are benefiting this planet, that we are all living here we should take care of it. No matter how small it is like picking up garbage and recycling things in the right places, helping people to recover. Do you consider yourself to be a good guy towards the environment that we live in or not? That's the ultimate question that each and one of us should answer.

I think that renewable energy is good, it would help our environment a lot. It will decrease the waste in our planet. The problem is, people are not interested in using this because they want to have instant (which are provided by power plants) energy. If people would only acknowledge the potential and the help that renewable energy would give, maybe earth would cleaner.

It's possible, as long as CO2 does not mixed with substances that will make our body affected by disease

Modern technology can not 100% to provide mankind with energy from alternative sources. And the technology is still too expensive. Now we are talking only about reducing emissions, but it is not the solution. This postponement of the sentence.

There can never be a 100% thing, it doesn't exist because there are a lot of factors to factor in and in order to get the best efficiency, tests must be made and research and now you know the reason why it's expensive. There are a lot of tests that researchers undergo to provide the right information and if the research study is on the right track, it's not yet ideal but it could help the future, funding the development would hasten the process in handling the technological stage.

Uranium isn't renewable, you are burning nuclear fuel to get energy and you have to buy it or mine it. Just a few countries have their own uranium mines, so it's not that easy to get. Also, the cost of constructing a nuclear power plant is similar to the cost of making a hydro plant or a geothermal plant. Nuclear plant will produce more energy, but it will be more expensive to maintain if you count all the security issues, protective gear, cost of fuel and its storage.

People should start considering using renewable energy. I don't see any negative effects of using it. Actually it has a lot of benefits, it helps preserve natural resources, it's eco friendly, it helps on lessening pollution and it can also help us save a lot of money. If all people would just use it, we might even help preserve the nature and also lessen pollution.

Well, the future is renewable energy. If we want Earth then we have to use renewable energy. The side effects are very less and we have to save our nature for future generations.

I think people are not interested in using renewable energy because it will take a lot of process. People nowadays wants everything that is instant. So, they just want to keep on using power plant energy instead of helping solve pollution through renewable energy. People would only realize that they should've used this kind of energy when it's late.

I once read that there is enough Uranium present in the earth to run nuclear power plants for the next 10,000 years. But I am not a big supporter of nuclear energy. We saw the risks during the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Well conventional energy is still cheaper, than many other renewable types of energy. But earth is moving towards renewable energy and that is certain. People are more and more aware that renewable energy is better for earth. Moving from conventional types to renewable already started, but it is long proces, and we are somewhere at the start. We can just hope that it will not be late when we move completely on using renewable energy some time in future.

It is relatively cheaper but the downsides on that are it destroys our planet, how we get it is the struggle itself. Some energy providers use the international standards to prevent further damaging the environment but a lot of companies tend to not follow the ISO standards that are needed to properly do processes and make them operate the country again. It is definitely better because once you have done that, think about it, it can be providing you energy 5 - 10 years or more and you won't have to do a single thing, that's awesome.

On a per KWh basis, the nuclear energy is at least three times cheaper than solar energy and at least twice as cheaper when compared to the energy generated from the thermal power-plants. On top of that it does not pollute the atmosphere like the thermal power-plants. Waste disposal is an issue, but the advancement of technology has resolved this problem as well.

The world is dying and here we are inventing stuffs that neither helps our mother earth nor lessen the pollution eating her. Although there are some scientists trying to solve or invent this dilemma, still, it isn't enouh sonce most of us don't really care. We are too busy trying to live and work and enjoy that we don't have time to look at our environment and do something to make it better. In line with this, i believe renewable energy will play a vital role, if not healing the world we are living, in making it better and lessen the damage we cause everyday. We invest too much on things that makes our daily chores and activites a lot easier with out thinking of the damage it causes to our environment. I guess it's about time to invest for the one and only earth we have.

I believe in the nuclear energy that it could power a lot of homes, not just the power plant itself. I researched about how the radioactive wastes are being managed and I can quite say that I'm impressed and knowing that the number or amount of wastes generated by the nuclear power plant is relatively small amount compared to the thermal electricity production. It has been proven also.

It will help the human but not the environment, it will just slows down nature's destruction. For example, the Solar Energy, we need solar panels in order to convert it into electricity, and those solar panels are made from raw materials coming from nature and processed by those mega factories that emit dangerous gasses. Remember that we're not just talking about a piece of panel, and Solar energy is not the only renewable energy that needs to be converted by machines into a usable form.

Renewable sources of energy are not really that renewable, many electric cars use many rare metals that as their name implies are rare  so it is not easy to find them and are rare, so renewable energies are not as good as some think.

Renewables energy have a major roles on how energy is being produce with greener and sufficieny source of energy  only today but also in the future. We should shift into renewable energy because is infinite unlike other source of energy that is finite only.
There are already house and establishment are getting involve with use of renewable energy. Here in my country, different kinds of renewable energy are being implemented like wind, geothermal, solar, biomass and hydro power. Our government support this kind of project building solar farm, hydroelectric and wind power.  I believe that one day we can build a cleaner and greener world.

That's true, the thing is that you can lessen the damage and try to rebuild it, it's never ending but it's worth it in my opinion. The materials coming from nature would be the sacrifice and it would lead to a better use rather than just use it in a non-helpful way.

It has a major role and that's why I believe in it, it just needs time to be researched and soon enough, there will be promising research articles that could be implemented in the world that could help save the planet.

In a global scenario, i don't expect a drastic change in the energy sources so soon
Fossil fuel corporations are not open to new ideas.

I don't agree with you. One of the first decisions Trump had to remove the ban on the sale of the us strategic reserves of oil and gas. America now wants to become a serious seller in the energy sector. He probably knows about the existence of effective alternative technologies and strives to sell while it has value.

I think many westeuropan country use renewable energy sources,but many of this countries use uranim,and that is problem if they not carefulu can come to disaster.We can follow example of Denmark how to use renewable sources.

That's the problem, until they can make money and power with those reserves, every revolutionary alternative energy source will be suppressed

These things can be created by the human, the problem is a huge interest by brands that won't let this happen easily.

From what I've researched, Trump doesn't know where to stand in the global warming crisis, I believe he said that it's an expensive hoax created by the Chinese, I don't know where he got that from and saying that it's to manipulate the market. There's a reason why it's still cold and it still snows but that doesn't mean global warming is not real. There is a lot of renewable energy researchers that are waiting to be performed commercially, it's about when you are going to apply it in your homes or wherever you are.

Unfortunately many people do not understand as it is dangerous, to contaminate our planet. But in the future we will see all problems that is related to contamination. Бepeжнeй is needed behaves to Earth.

Uranium is the best renewable energy source. It is cheap, unlike the solar panels and wind turbines. But as you said, nuclear power-plants must be operated with extreme carefulness. Also, another issue is the disposal of the spent nuclear fuel.

Anything that is contaminated has effects that you wouldn't know of or probably under your noses already, it might affect your health or something. I just didn't understand what you posted, what I bolded.

We all will agree with this, knowing that you could power up a whole city without destroying other natural resources.

Renewable energy is an energy that can be replenished and can be replaced. It includes solar, wind, hydroelectric, geocentric and biomass. Nowadays many of renewable energy is already in danger because of humans that using this energies in non valuable things.We should conserve energy properly so the next generation can also have that energy that they will use in their daily life.

We've all been too focused on progress here for the longest time. Especially big business who really doesn't care about the consequences of the things they do. Even down to the regular citizens, we don't take it seriously. Perhaps once we see a more direct effect in our lives that's when we'll wake up and it would probably be too lae already

, we cannot deny the fact that scientists and other researchers are discovering or finding some source of renewable energy, it would be a big help to ours. the only problem is, we do not know yet what are the side effects of renewable energy unless we have it, but according to what i have read solar power energy is considered as renewable source of energy and as of right now it is very hot due to the climate change and a part of destruction in nature, and solar energy is being used also to take advantage the heat. I don't know if it is true but that's what i read from an article.

One example can be found here (https://youtu.be/ZidzY7bKbT0?t=34m15s)
Dr. T. henry Moray and Lester Hendershot

"Lester Hendershot (1899-1960) was the Inventor of the so-called Fuelless Motor (1928)....
Hendershot ran into political difficulties in promoting his device, attempted to take his business to Mexico, and finally faded into obscurity...
The project ended when Hendershot committed suicide"

As part of the people trying to research on renewable energy, it's really possible it's just that we need to implement it. The statistics show that the percentage of carbon dioxide emissions are decreasing that's a great step towards the future but we can only slow down the greenhouse gases that is in our air, it's up to the future researches to try to eliminate those gases that destroy our earth.

i know a person saling power electricity to The largest electric distribution company. he got large solar  and he is not paying electric bill the provider paying for him

Yes... in my place also, a lot of people are doing this. They install solar panels, and if they have excess electricity, then they pump it back to the grid. But even then, these solar panels are unafforable to the majority of the population.

Renewable energy is something that our government needs to fund a research and development. Because it will become useful to us specially now a days that gadgets, appliances etc are always relying on energy. Also because of the advancement of technology, we need also to develop our source of energy.

Energy is classified into two, renewable energy and non renewable energy. Non renewable energy is energy that cannot be replaced . Renewable energy is energy that can be replenished and regenerated. Solar, hydro, biomass and wind are some examples of reneable energy. We should use the energy properly to maintain this kinds of energy.

People should consider using renewable energy, because of over population our resources are little by little becoming scarce. Using renewable energy would help save resources, money and even lessen pollution which would be really helpful in saving our planet. The problem is people are not interested in using renewable energy because they don't believe on it's uses.

This is merely possible, but the fact that the biggest energy providers such as electricity, gas and oil is not infavor of this things. I mean of course it's money matter. They keep on preventing the invention of free energy since the era of tesla, no wonder why till now the continue doing it.

We realy need a cleaner energy source to protect the future of this planet, hoping soon will be one with the advance of the technology.

The biggest enemy of the research on renewable energy is the GCC nations. They have openly lobbied against renewable energy, and the mainstream media channels funded by these nations are always full of propaganda favoring fossil fuels.

We cannot survive a day without using of energy. Energy help us to live in a comfortable way. But renewable energy is limited because of people that did not use energy in a proper way. If we want the next generation to feel comfortable, we should limit the use of energy and we should only use it if necessary.

The biggest obstacle to the spread of renewable energy is the cost associated with it. For example, electricity generated from solar panels cost almost 5 times as much as that from the nuclear power plants. But there is hope that as the technology advances, these options may become more and more cheaper. We need to invest a lot in the research.

It is truly the main factor why aternative sources of energy are not so used often. It is both renewable energy it's the technology that costs a lot not the energy created by it. Some countries already have applied this kind of technology and hope that other countries will follow.

For countries such as Iceland, generating electricity from the renewable sources is rather easy. They have a lot of hot springs and geysers and which can be used for electricity generation. But the other countries are not that lucky.

i think every manufacturing company that does renewable energy sources would account for those factors. There a lot of researches now that probably could apply to either the cold countries using winds are the countries that are exposed to much sunlight.

Speaking of renewable energy, we must first change our mindset first, we must apply a sense of discipline to ourselves as well as our family to use energy resources wisely, we make it a habit not to waste energy resources in vain, we must also wisely choose To use non-destructive natural energy sources in its exploration.
For renewable energy we may be able to maximize the use of solar energy as an alternative energy source. Governments and scientists must play a role in that, and communities as energy users also have to be disciplined and support those programs.

The hydropower energy would be an ideal renewable energy to be practice in my country because our country is abundant in natural resources. I do believe that through hydropower energy it can sustain electricity that is needed. But if we use this renewable energy we must discipline our self in terms of how we use and protect our environment so that we can conserve what is in nature.

Energy from hydro-power plants can be considered as a renewable source of electricity. But they cause a lot of ecological and environmental damage. Look at Brazil. There are plans to build a number of mega hydro-power plants (such as the Belo Monte). These projects will cause the destruction of millions of acres of Amazonian rain forest and it will cause the displacement and genocide of the indigenous population in the region.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penzhin_Tidal_Power_Plant_Project

Check this.

You can't please everybody to use renewable energy yes we are ow in new technologys and everything was change by the technology that makes human become more lazy than ever people nowadays are dying with young age and those inventors who can't support there own project are stealing by those people who had money and they inovate it and yes if we can use this from today maybe we can really save our mother earth.

Wind energy is getting more affordable now, but the solar panels continue to remain out of reach for the vast majority of the people. The disadvantage with solar panels is that they require constant maintenance, especially if the dust level is high.

Energy sources can be classified into two parts: renewable energy and non-renewable energy. Renewable energy is energy that when used will be used continuously like wind, water, sun. This energy can not be consumed by humans worldwide all the time. Renewable energy is more synonymous with environmentally friendly energy or "green energy". This energy also does not impact global warming because it has existed since millions of years ago and is in natural balance.

Renewable energy is more expensive to produce, and it can be expensive to build power lines from the renewable energy sources to the cities that need the electricity.

It's the process of getting land and putting solar panel farms to the test, it's just that the things that are needed to really put the alternative into the first are the politics involved. There are a lot of people who would counter alternative energy sources because of the possible losses in their profit, that's one of the main things.

There are two kinds of energy. Renewable and non renewable energy. Non renewable is energy that cannot be replenished. While renewable is energy that can be replenished. We should limit the use of these two energy so next generation can use it. We should avoid the improper use of energy to avoid lacking of energy.

Non-renewable energy sources is a relative term. Why do people think that e.g. oil is not a renewable resource? How does it come from? In the same way she appears again it will take many years. Probably correct to say rapidly renewable and slowly renewable energy sources.

I believe that with people becoming more and more reliant on technologyu, science has made advances that has proved to people that they are an essential part of the world and that with them they can take people into another age wherein they can be of help. With research papers, and scientific research there would be a better place wherein people can know the importance of renewable energy. They can know the advances the pros of it and its effect on the long term future

I made a research a couple years ago about the prospectives of renewable energy and it showed that it's not just something helpful for us to take care of our planet, but is also worth it from economic point of view

Could you please explain the economic prospective? The main drawback about renewable energy is that it is not affordable to the majority of the world population. For example, electricity generated from the solar panels cost as much as 4 times than the same from nuclear or hydro power plants. Solar panels need constant maintenance as well. Check this:

http://gavinpsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Academics_total-cost-electricity-production-per-kwh.jpg

The graph doesn't make a lot of sense because it is said that it is the total cost of electricity per kWh, it just includes the cost of it per production with construction, not the product itself and how efficient it needs to produce electricity. Yes, it costs a lot but it doesn't require you to pay electricity using that because it's already the source. I can see that the resource is 5 years old, there are a lot of advancements regarding the production.

We should recreate solar energy, electric power, water energy. At present these energies are depleted or wasted. We need to use a way to save on renewable energy.

I always though singapore had a good education and high iq population.
But then i realized a huge amount of singaporians are low iq immigrants ugh ( 2++ million)

Dude there is internet in singapore. Today there exist something like google.
Even 70 iq semi retards can use it.

Look up again the price per watt of a solar module or price per kwh over the lifecycle of a solar module.

Duh.

Yeah and many countries are already doing this like japan and new zealand. These countries are finding successful ways not to contribute to the depletion of our fossil fuels and are using natural sources that won't harm the environment.

This will not be realized properly, even though this is the case, but it does the greening of the earth in many ways, but it will not be balanced because on the other side of the big companies that do illegal logging, sand mining and many others that potentially damage the nature in large scale

We must immediately begin to use and seek renewable energy ... because now the energy needs are very large ..... in addition to renewable energy must also be environmentally friendly

What do you mean by realized properly? It has been established but there some drawbacks that needed to be addressed like the cost of producing it, it can't really be mass produced unless it's supported by a lot of people. It's all about business and politics, in my opinion, that's why there are not enough power with applying renewable energy. I hope there would be some kind of entity that would help fix that.

New Zealand is too small to make any meaningful contribution. It's population is just around 4 million. And Japan remains one of the biggest importers of fossil fuels in the world. And their consumption of fossil fuels seems to have increased especially after the closure of nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster.

Those energy that are generated from natural resources which are renewable are tides,wind,heat from the sun,rain and geothermal energy.All of this have some impact on the environment.

it has to spread quickly. because nature is worn out. People are so cruel. everything is running out. sun, wave, wind ... we have to turn everything into energy. but we can protect it in this way. oil must be abandoned.

What do you mean by impact in the environment? It does help in the conserving of the non-renewable energy sources that we have like coal. We need to provide alternative methods and support the new research that are coming from the academe or not. It's definitely the right mindset that we all need to have.

i think research in papers is not value if we can not apply in the life. In my country have a lot research in papers but in fact it is not able apply and sometime i dont understand why do we have to do it?

The Sun is our most powerful source of energy. Sunlight or solar energy can be used for home heating, lighting and cooling and other buildings, power supply, water heater, and other industrial processes, most renewable energy comes either directly or indirectly from the sun. For example, the heat from the sun causes the wind to blow, contributes to the growth of trees and other plants used for biomass energy, and plays an important role in the evaporation and rainfall cycles that are the source of water energy.

In fact, it is very unfortunate that our world is on its way to extinction. After all, people simply do not think about their future. The planet becomes polluted, we breathe, and we continue to do all the same. The most interesting thing is that nature was given to us clean and untouched, and we made a garbage dump from it.

Cleaner energy is very important for the future. Large areas of the world that are now highly inhabited will become uninhabitable, if pollution is not checked.

Research is needed because we need to discover different materials that can provide better efficiency. It's hard to apply because it's just the start of it but if has promising outcomes, it could be applied just like any other research before them. For example the oled tv displays are just research back in time and it has provided the brand's with better efficiency and colour.

Renewable energy was badly needed in my country.  Knowing how polluted our earth is,  we as human being must do something and that is to use other ways to conserve energy.  Having the guts to make a change and use renewable energy is a step we may all take part.  Let us protect our world by using this and generating more ways to make use of other items in generating energy that will not only help the people but our planet as well.

Technology is improving every day and the solar panels and windpower turbines are getting cheaper. May be within the next 10-15 years, we will be able to generate most of the electricity from renewable sources, such as solar, wind, tidal, and Uranium. But I still don't know when we will be able to replace the gasoline run vehicles with electric vehicles.

Hopefully, it won't be too late for our world and I hope that it could recover. The continuous addition of CO2 gases in the atmosphere won't stop and it will still continue but with the help of emerging technologies, it could really be slowed down and hoping that it could stop the worsening of the environment completely.

Nothing can be done, if the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing. However, the scientists are making good progress in this sector. They are now attempting to pump carbon dioxide in to basalt rock, where it can remain stably trapped for many tens of thousands of years.

Get your indian children out of the ganges they are swimming in human SHIT..

And your peoples are drinking it HUMAN SHIT :-X..

Plus clean the fucking river up  >:( before you all drown in human shit..

Carry on and soon you will be all underwater ..

Renewable energy is the energy we all need to adopt to in this world. As population is increasing each and every day the only sustainable energy is renewable energy.

Nowadays, that there were overpopulation and scarcity on all kinds of needs, may it be land or food or energy, we must make a move to help ourselves and that is with the help of renewable energy.
something that can replace the use of expensive chemical and at the same time can help our environment. let us all help our planet by means of consuming renewable energy instead of buying expensive products that is also harmful to human.

It's the first time I have heard of this, and knowing that it could be done, hopefully, it would affect the CO2 in the atmosphere somehow. It would just be the people's discipline to follow certain rules with concern about disposal of waste, even the simple biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials, it should be followed completely. In our country, it's not very strict, that's why it's saddening and very polluted.

Presumably as technology advances the cost of cleaner alternatives fuels will continue to decrease. Are there any hurdles that cannot be overcome?

it would be enough to begin with simply the so-called personal hygiene - don't throw garbage on the street, use paper bags and disposable utensils and not plastics...this is better in the US than in the countries of Europe, especially in the east...we can all contribute, but for some reason not many people are ready to do something

Generating electricity from renewable sources rather than fossil fuels offers significant public health benefits and also good to our environment. We all know we need to be responsible in protecting our planet. Using this resources will not just save us money because the traditional method is costly and we know fossil fuels is not renewable.

Coal and the like is finite and will run out. We'll have to switch to renewable energy eventually - the question is how much we'll damage our planet before we do.

Thinking about the hard stuff could help lessen the difficulty of it, but the hurdles that everyone can manage is the struggle with themselves. If you think about it, the discipline in people should be followed that no one should litter anywhere even if there's no one looking because it could just make the world dirtier. It's that hurdle that for sure, not everyone can overcome.

It would actually be a good idea and investment for the futyre of humanity but a lot people will not open their eyees and acknowledge its importance unless they have been affected or maybe when it is too late. We should start promoting and supporting renewable energy to not further damage our planet.

renewable energy is the best source of energy that will solve many problems that is caused by energy crisis. and this energy is the face changing energy of the modern era.I completely concede to sustainable power source, it's truly sparing our planet and diminish the an unnatural weather change obviously this need a great deal of research and collaboration from all individuals and we know one day we will come up short on vitality source so we cannot rely upon those vitality source, yet a few people essentially would prefer not to know, they will just acknowledge when the issue as of now at basic point, it is truly critical to continue building up this innovation so we will spare our earth.

What do you think?

Now scientists themselves spoil the energy of our planet. They launch constantly rockets, release incomprehensible substances into the environment and much more. If it does not stop, then nature can play us a cruel joke. This is how the tornado came to the US and destroyed everything.

I'm sure it is possible, but I'm afraid it may be too late... Many people now are concerned by other problems, which have nothing to do with peace and life

They have just used their resources in their own goals and missions, and probably they are just experimenting how people could be taken to another place or another planet, depending on the purpose of the rocket. If you are going to think about it, it's not going to be easy to step up the game with saving the planet, and there should be different paths and depending on the path, the person should decide.

I think that we should all make efgorts to save the planet through promoting the use of renewable energy. As we all know, fossil fuels and coal from coal mining are depleteing fast and there are inly few alternatives on where we can derive energy from. So as early as now, we must be aware of the use of renewable energy like also solar powered energy and also hydroelectric energy.

Renewable energy contributes a lot to the economical development of the country especially to those who have the huge resources. Resources like water, wind, heat, etc. We can use all those resources so that we can help on the shortage in energy and the pollution of the whole world. If we adapt different strategies in  converting all those resources into energy we can be an Eco warriors that maintain the world a beautiful home to live in. In my school we have so many research and developments when it comes to renewable energy. Example is my thesis which is the SOLAR POWER BASED HOME SYSTEM USING MICRO-CONTROLLER. The prototype is very cheap in prize but gives accurate and effective response. The only limitation is that some big appliances cannot run by this study. Only small appliances in the house but it has a big impact to lessen the energy consumption of the user.

Self sufficient living and free renewable energy should be the goal for every awaken humanbeing on this planet.

Get off the government titty and take control of your life.

Take the example of cellphones. 20 years ago cellphones have huge ass battery packs that lasts only 2 hours and it could only call. And you can't even save your contacts. Now you can virtually do everything through your phone. Take that example to renewable energy and I'm sure that it will advance. There are only 2 things it needs, a surge and constant demand, and no opposition. I mean if renewable energy will be a thing, what will happen to the industries that actually focuses more on fossil fuel. Take the oil industry.

Nope. It is still not too late. But if we don't act now and wait for another 10-20 years, then it will be too late. Politicians are not worried about it, as the ordinary people know hardly anything about global warming and the other harmful environmental effects. For the common people, the priority is for food, education, healthcare.etc. Talking about environment will not gain any additional votes for a politician.

That's why they are spreading the news about Climate Change being a conspiracy made by manufacturers or people who want to control the market and such. It's obvious that there are adverse effects on the environment, there's no doubt about that. The thing is they need to be aware themselves of what their actions could cause but if people believe in the environment, they might convert themselves to environment lovers or something.

First of all, people must switch to clean energy (sun, water, wind) and completely abandon hydrocarbons. Otherwise, what's the point of clearing our planet, when others will clog it?

Most renewable energy comes directly and indirectly from the sun and wind. Solar energy and Wind energy can be use to produce electricity. This is environment-friendly because it uses natural resources.

renewable energy should be implied. it will reduce global warming. global temperature will also decrease. so, renewable energy should be used.

There are many developments, there are few real applications. The same electric vehicles, the use of alternative types of energy and the rejection of nuclear fuel. Already, ozone holes can patch to prevent global warming. So people are smart.

Of course it is not impossible. The technology that we all have evolves everytime. Back then, who would have thought that there will be a fast way to communicate, meaning the probability of doing impossible things is getting achievable due to technology.

The future of energy is solar batteries and wind generators. The era of oil is a thing of the past.

In fact, a huge number of things are made from a plastic and if it recycle for energy, elementary for heating, there would already stay much cleaner around us. On the other hand, the air from this will not cleaner  ::)

Renewable energy is the energy that can be replenished and can be replaced. There are many source of renewable energy like the windmill and the solar panels. But we should be careful in using it because maybe in the future, it can loss and the next generation can't use any energy. We should save it now for a better future.

The only real renewable energy which would not mess up our environment is the energy from the sun. However in the long run also the sun is not renewable energy since in some billions of years it will finish its nuclear fuel and then we will have a big problem.

Air power and geothermal power is also a good renewable energy we are not harming any of the other organisms in the earth. Government also should do a research on how to convert garbage into an energy

People can't completely abandon hydrocarbons, at least because it will stops all space exploration missions (there is no alternative rocket-launch fuel).

We need to start from ourselves. Do not use cars, but ride a bike, don't eat meat, but grow plants, use not oil and gas but electrisity. Build sunbatteries and windelectrostations. Don't use plastic, do recycling, be eco!
We should educate our children about it as well.

So what you're trying to say is the obvious right? It's not just from the sun and wind, there are geothermal and hydro types of energy sources. It's always for energy, so what can you do really to make the environment cleaner and greener? It's best to be responsible for the things that we do, the little things that could probably harm the planet like throwing trash in the street.

How much are you paying for electricity right now? May be $0.10 per KWh? Are you ready to pay double that amount? I don't have a problem with that. If the planet can be saved, then I am ready to pay $0.20 per KWh. And I guess the majority of the people will think like me. But the problem comes with the industries. They will never agree to pay such high prices for electricity.

I've thought about doing a job back in time, where everything is done in the traditional way, it's possible to make everything natural and not harm the earth. but now this is impossible, because we live in an era of technological advances that require a lot of energy and also the results will be very dirty for the earth. this is a challenge, and the small thing we can do is to save money and not spoil our human desire to master everything, before there is a good alternative to our earth.

Renewable energy is energy that is generated from natural processes that are continuously replenished. This includes sunlight, geothermal heat, wind, tides, water, and various forms of biomass. This energy cannot be exhausted and is constantly renewed.

Costa Rica operates with renewable energy almost at 100%, Costa Rica achieve the record to operates with 100 % of renewable energy for almost 200 days. So it can be possible, I know that CR is a very small country however their operation system can be implemented by whatever country. It implicates that people, government and privacy companies change their mentality. 

Renewable Energy is encouraged since renewable energy is a source of energy in which it does not use a depletable and conventional source of energy. The only problem is that production of the technology in harnessing renewable energy is expensive that is why the consumers would shoulder higher cost as compared to the conventional ones. Therefore, looking at the cost-benefit ratio, the renewable energy may not be as economical as the conventional energy sources but definitely, it is environmentally friendly.

 we can help in our own little way, just by turning off the lights when its not in need, or just by segregating our garbages, it will definitely help our environment. small acts but big impact :)

Yes you are right about many researches of sustainable energy in scientific area. I had also one research about it. I worked on sustainable architecture in the university. But I couldn't find a company to realize it. In my country these researches are not very essential. But they must be. I believe that scientists form the future.

I agree with you and together with the large-scale of people that segregate their garbage and knowing what to do with the wastes that we create would definitely have an impact in the environment. Being disciplined is definitely one of the important factors knowing that people tend to just don't care what happens to the surroundings but cares only about themselves.

Power conservation can help a lot. But you can also generate your own electricity, by installing solar power plants or portable wind turbines at your home. What is the need to purchase expensive electricity from the polluting thermal power-plants, when you can do the same at home?

Energy is a vital driving force for development. Access to energy can alleviate poverty, improve living conditions and propel economic development. However, taking the fossil fuel route straight towards climate change will have disastrous effects, especially for developing countries.

It ia in little of things that makes a big difference. Participating in earth hour every year makes a difference not just in energy consumption of that day but spreading awareness to all to take care of our environment.

Yes that`s right this is simply wrong section for such a discussion liek this , can move this post to politics and society , there are people interested in these kind of a topic. This topic may help people how to value energy because our community right now we need renewable resources of energy to save the planet earth.

Even among the fossil fuels, there are fuels which are less harmful to the environment. For example, thermal power plants which run using coal are the most dangerous ones. The most environmental friendly (in a relative sense) are the ones which are run using natural gas.

But you have to understand that not the gas itself gives electricity, but the fact that the water is heated, which power the turbines. This also causes irreparable harm to the environment, because the rivers on which thermal power plants are located do not freeze in winter and do not purify themselves. And in the summer they are practically warm, because the power stations are pouring water. And thus all life perishes, because water loses oxygen.

Of course, it's necessary to use renewable energy sources as they create many benefits for our climate, our health and economy.
However, the magority of us don't recognize its significance and will not take concrete actions until an ecological catastrophe occurs and it'll be too late.

The green energy is complicated, meaning yes it generates green energy, like the solar panels, but the technological procedure of the silicon extraction is not environmentally friendly.

Maybe you're a little too late with current postings but I have already moved it into the politics and society section of this forum. You're just replying to have a post. Of course there are a lot of possibilities to help save the earth, we just need to apply it.

Renewable resources are the new key to open to the future energy, i can sure it will replace fossil energy nowaday, alternative energies will be the most popular energy in the future.

I think some people and business dont want to take action  about renewable energy because their businesses like oil, petreleum and gas will be bankcrupt by this new renwable energy. It is too selfish to think that there are still people thinking this way.

Renewable enery is really important in our society nowadays.

There are natural ways of producing renewable energy that doesn't causes harm to the world as we know it but we cannot fully depend on it because they are not capable of producing all the energy that we really needs.

It's not so new, it's been ages since it was first used, but we all know why petroleum is still here - it's just the easiest way to make big money for huge corporations, and until it is over, we will be using it. Unfortunately. But in the southern countries there are more and more solar panels used, and we are planning to use it also for our project of high-tech hotel in Spain. Though they are way too more expensive than they should be, as the technology is damn old! This fact really irritates me. There was some news that Ilan Mask is planning to produce some special type of roof tyles with build-in solar panels, but i'm sure it will not be cheap also.

Maybe you didn't understand or know what renewable energy is but producing it is not any harm to the planet or whatsoever. The manufacturing of the needed materials probably is but it's for the right cause. If everyone would apply it meaning every country, it would be a great impact that could probably provide for the energy that we need in the world.

Everyone should be involved in everything that is transpiring on the planet every small action counts and having an ability to be a person that can support renewable energy is a good thing. The planet is slowly dying and we find ways to kake it sustainable

Evolution is one of our traits as a human since our species is the most intelligent, facing problems with nature will make our views regarding our planet can give an effect to the energy industry and i believe that renewable energy is the solution to the rising temperature of our planet, if mankind cannot fully utilize such energies more catastrophe will soon emerge as the global warming becomes a threat to human.

We don't know that we are the most intelligent species in the universe but in the earth, we are the most smartest knowing that our competition is animals. Humans are also the most deadliest on Earth because of the things that we do to profit. Some people destroy the environment for selfish purposes but not everyone is terrible, there are just some people who do not follow the right regulations

I agree, people are really deadly...and it's good that there are those who are fighting for the environment, insist on using alternative sources and are trying to preserve our Earth, that has already suffered so much from us

Renewable energy is the real thing. It's not hard to make it the major source of energy, but oil companies are against it. They lobby their position to governments, that don't let renewable energy grow.