The sky rocketing rates at US gas stations and continued growing problems in the Nigeria, Middle East,and other important areas to the oil-booming economy has made Americans realize that there is a strong need to develop other prospects of energy supplies and creation to reduce the dependency on oil as it is ultimately limited and honestly, only cheap oil sources, not all of oil sources are getting emptied.
Energy consultant professionals and analysts are confident that cheap oil source is almost over and this means an costly future unless alternate new forms of powering mechanized and electronic civilizations substituting oil need to be developed.
Another reason to shift to alternate forms of energy is that our current forms are destructive to the atmosphere and contribute to damaging the environment by air pollution. This write doesn’t believe in global warming trend et all, sustained by mankind’s activities and it is a cycle of nature and there’s nothing one can do other than preparing for its consequences.
Coal is a source of power that we should free ourselves from as that is also limited and at the same time mining it is dangerous yet environmentally damaging. We can look for new, methods for electricity generation that we presently produce so much through hydro-power such that we less damaging to nature when we are in requirement of construction of large dams.
Developing countries have become industrialized in last decade or so will benefit from alternate energy researching and development, as they are more detrimental to the environment than the US.
The United States and certain European countries have been researching programmes for the developing alternate energy forms, and thus are leaders in furthering the cause of saving environment. The developing countries like China as well as India have to look up to leaders like the Japanese and the Western countries which have set examples by showing what R and D can do if government backing is given.
We could also strengthen our own economy by being at the head of such alternative energy sources development and then marketing the technologies and services to nations like India, China, Brazil, and so on and so forth.
Biofuels from things such as “supertrees” and soybeans, natural gas, refined hydroelectric technology, the further construction of atomic energy plants, the continued the development of solar power photovoltaic cells, hydrogen fuel cells, more research into wind-harnessed power. All these are feasible power forms that can be treated as alternatives to the huge quantities of oil and coal that we currently are so dependenable on for our complex and comfort based lifestyles. The power sources in the future is indeed green.