Topic: Our future with renewable energy. (Read 1001 times)

True,  the adaptation may take time because governments still profit from fossil. Companies that refine oil also benefit financially. There are still many cars in my country using fossil fuels, so transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs) will take time.

Also, transitioning to renewable energy sources will require time for people to be able to afford them. Before we can completely phase out fossil fuels, but having dual energy sources might not be a bad idea.

It's already happening; some individuals use solar power in their homes, although it's still relatively rare. Only a few buildings and government institutions utilize solar energy, but it's a start.

However, I believe that with time, we can adopt renewable energy. Any government that cares about moving the country forward would invest in renewable energy.

This is the future and there is really no turning back. The thing is, the only reason why we are using those old fossil fuel methods is because we just do not have as profitable as we can other alternatives, but the more we subsidies them, and that means just not taking taxes is more than enough, then we are going to grow there a lot as well.

Oil companies made BILLIONS in profit while still taking subsidies, because a nation needs energy more than anything else, and it's more profitable to just not take taxes from your own nations companies, then import energy from another nation anyways. So, with time, people will realize, those renewable ones like hydro, solar, wind and so far will all be what world is giving us and we can make use of it and efficiency will increase a lot and we will make a good profit with them.

Storage is a big deal, I already see a change from renewables taking which is the power is produced at all hours of the day. Its important its used but also stored, this varies from oil, coal and gas previously used because they are easily stored and the energy released on demand.

So together with Nuclear this is a big change, nuclear power once its process has started cannot be halted easily it must cooled for sometime after even if not being used to produce power.  I think renewable power can be cheaper eventually but investment and development is quite significant a barrier to startup.  Again the old fuels have the advantage of being so well known and immediate in their production.   

Cost of Solar has come down alot, Wind is cheaper in certain areas where its most efficient and I even believe hydro and tidal power could be a big deal but not as easily implemented as all the other alternatives.    Its easily arguable not that not just production but infrastructure to carry the electricity has to be upgraded, I read this is especially true in USA because of its formidable terrain and diverse locations both population and the production facilities etc.   There are many challenges but alll can be overcome imo.

Last time I remember that renewable energy was expensive in my region because we import it but at the same time we have cheap energy. Financially, it wasn't beneficial to invest in renewable energy but recently I see more and more solar panels everywhere. They are either getting cheap or people are getting eco-friendly, which sounds strange for my region.

Politically, renewable energy is the most accepted form of energy because it reduces carbon emissions and long-term, energy is generated more cheaply. My country even got a request from the EU to invest in renewable energy and they are doing it where they can. Compared to 10-20 years ago, there is a big progress.

I must say you spoke so we'll about the need for renewable energy and how it's sustainable feature can be of help to the economic situation of the country thereby paving way for more development via renewable resources. And you're actually right ok the aspect of political and social acceptance of this renewable resources, but the thing is the government of the country can be so greedy and biased to a point that all they desire is to have a share of the renewable energy to themselves and leave the masses with no option. If this can be tackled then the future will penetrate across the globe on renewable energy and resources.

The advancement of clean energy technologies is unstoppable.
The global market value of six key mass-produced clean energy technologies – solar photovoltaics, wind power, electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, electrolyzers and heat pumps – nearly quadrupled between 2015 and 2023, surpassing $700 billion, or roughly half the value of all natural gas produced globally that year.

According to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), under current policies, the market for these clean technologies will nearly triple to exceed $2 trillion by 2035.

China is currently the country with the lowest production costs for the key clean energy technologies examined in the report, excluding explicit financial support from governments. The production of solar photovoltaic modules, wind turbines and battery technologies costs on average 40% more in the United States, 45% more in the European Union and 25% more in India.
But competition between countries is always good for rapid development and cheaper production.

https://focus.ua/digital/676339-proizvodstvo-solnechnyh-paneley-obhoditsya-es-ochen-dorogo-prichina

The transition to the use of alternative energy sources is truly the call of the time and our inevitable future. Now almost all states are either developing new sources of energy consumption or are trying to implement existing developments. Humanity is being pushed towards this process by a decrease in fossil fuel reserves and dramatic climate change as a result of the traditional use of coal, gas and petroleum products as a fuel and source of energy. Previously, gas and oil corporations sharply opposed the process of searching and introducing alternative energy sources, physically eliminating inventors and destroying their inventions, but now the situation has reached a new level that can no longer be stopped.

Particularly interesting in this regard are the developments of Japanese, French and scientists from other countries on the practical application of the process of nuclear fusion as an energy source, that is, a chemical reaction that occurs in all the stars of our universe - a process during which two light atomic nuclei combine into one more a heavy core releasing enormous amounts of energy. Almost such artificial suns may appear in the next decade. This is even mentioned in the prophecies of the Bulgarian soothsayer Vanga, who predicted that people would launch several such artificial suns into low Earth orbit, which would evenly illuminate our planet all day long.

I think it is difficult to advance renewable energy at the moment, by encouraging its development it is hoped that management will be more independent, but the target will be difficult to achieve because it requires good technological progress
and it has been tested because the energy needs of users are now increasing, because in the development of renewable energy there are many obstacles faced such as limited infrastructure and limited technical expertise, because things like that require careful consideration but over time has changed this little by little but I believe In the future, all of this will definitely come true, even though it will take time to achieve all of that.

I think it's still possible, but it will take time for sure.

but along the way we can still focus on diversifying energy sources and one of them could be green hydrogen.
industry revolution toward the greener path and reducing carbon footprint will be an extensive and cost hungry effort but I think the fact that so many institutions still pushing for green energy is a good thing.
we're still too early to say that it's unrealistic, maybe within next decade we might see some significant technology advancement that allows the use of renewable energy and also boost the production of renewable energy, after all technology developing so fast.

Why increase day by day? I don't think they will always have a new gadget or appliances for that. With the rising electricity, I think it was actually decreasing, so I won't worry about the supply and reliability of electricity.

There are already renewable energy that people can use but to say that we are going to transition into it and abandon the traditional one completely can be unlikely for some reasons. For some regions or areas where traditional energy is hard to reach or their costing is high, yeah that renewable energy is more useful on them. It's perfect for them because they are not power-hungry compared to those who are living on the cities.

Since the energy needs of users increase day by day, the continuity of energy and the size of the supply are also important. The transition to renewable energy can be further accelerated with the support of states. Especially in some regions, renewable energy needs to be used. The benefits of devices used for renewable energy sources should be increased with new technologies and offered at affordable prices to those who want to use this energy. This will also benefit users and the environment by preventing energy dependency.

Although there is not a 100 percent transition to renewable energy, the rate will increase over time.

It is unrealistic to expect the world to 100% run on renewable energy. The infrastructure required for a complete transition is expensive and time consuming to implement. Renewable energy sources like solar & wind are intermittent & dependent on weather conditions which leads to fluctuations in supply. The storage & distribution of renewable energy on a large scale pose significant challenges. Some industries & regions heavily rely on non renewable sources like fossil fuels for their energy needs. Achieving a 100% renewable energy world would require substantial technological advancements, policy changes & global cooperation.

Inventions in the field of new technologies for the use of solar panels continue at an extraordinary rate.
Thus, a team of experts from ETH Zurich managed to create photovoltaic ceramics with unprecedented potential. It defies the laws of physics by being incredibly small.

Photovoltaic ceramics are a thousand times more efficient than current silicon-based solar panels. A special feature of this ceramic and its high performance characteristics is its nanostructure. The device consists of two critical components: a material that has good light absorption coefficient, and another material that has good electrical conductivity (even better than perovskite and silicon). The light absorption layer uses aluminum oxide and perovskite nanoparticles because these two substances have remarkable light absorption properties.

Perovskites are embedded in a highly stable aluminum oxide, which in turn protects them from heat, humidity and mechanical stress. When sunlight hits the ceramic, the electrons in the perovskite nanoparticles are excited and jump to a higher energy level. These excited electrons are then efficiently collected, formed into alumina crystals, and brought to the surface to create an electrical current.

This specific structure and texture allows the ceramic to evenly accumulate and store energy coming from the sun across the entire surface of the panel, and achieve a high critical reaction temperature of 1500 °C throughout the material. The new type of solar panels turned out to be 1000 times stronger than conventional silicon solar cells, since 1 sq. m of ceramics can produce the same amount of electricity as 1000 sq. m of a conventional solar battery.

Researchers suggest the new technology could deliver virtually limitless free electricity to homes and offices.
https://focus.ua/amp/digital/658012-v-1000-raz-moshchnee-solnechnyh-batarey-keramicheskiy-istochnik-energii-narushaet-zakony-fiziki

Your country uses overhead cabling? Aluminium based cables? The US Electrical grid set up ?

Here is a report on how good those are in extreme conditioning.

https://marketscale.com/industries/building-management/how-does-weather-affect-the-electrical-grid/

We are still only at the beginning of the journey to using alternative energy sources, and inventions in this area will repeatedly present us with unexpected pleasant surprises.
I recently read an article that says that the WAVJA company (USA) has developed innovative devices that can serve as analogues to modern photocells.

The developers said their devices can deliver 7.5 times the power of traditional solar panels while taking up 30 times less space. The tiny beads, ranging in size from 2.54 cm to almost 10.16 cm, can use both sunlight and artificial light to produce electricity. The balls are placed on a square-shaped device that is part of a system that converts light into electricity. Interestingly, connecting an external battery is not required, because The invention is a self-contained battery system. But if you need to connect a third-party power supply, then this can be done in various ways. If the technology can actually deliver the stated power, it will be a real breakthrough in solar energy. Therefore, of course, the future lies in new technologies for the use of alternative energy sources.

https://focus.ua/digital/655178-v-200-raz-luchshe-solnechnyh-batarey-chudo-sfery-dayut-energiyu-dazhe-ot-iskusstvennogo-sveta

Simply burning fossil fuels to obtain a certain type of energy is man's predatory attitude towards nature as a habitat. Therefore, it is renewable energy sources that should become the norm for humans, and now we are precisely at a stage at which we have very great opportunities for their implementation in all areas of our lives.

Previously, research into renewable energy sources was hampered by fossil fuel corporations, but with their supplies running low, this obstacle is no longer expected. And it’s time, we finally take care of the environment and climate, which man has changed to his own detriment by burning coal, gas and oil products.

Yep and África leading the way.

source Economisr.com or paywallfree https://archive.is/iqE4Q

It must be taken into account that in terms of the introduction of alternative energy sources, we are, in fact, only at the beginning of this path. The first silicon-based solar panels had an efficiency of about 16 percent; now they have an efficiency of about 25 percent. But technologies are changing relatively quickly in the direction of increasing their efficiency.

Thus, perovskite solar cells can replace conventional silicon solar panels in the foreseeable future. They are quite simple to manufacture, and at the same time they are capable of generating the same amount of electricity from the same area as silicon ones.

In a new article in the journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, NUST MISIS scientists have already presented industrial prototypes of perovskite solar cells with a record efficiency for different combinations of light colors - 36.1%. This will make it possible to generate electricity with the same average efficiency both from the Sun and from any artificial light sources. This technology is already ready for industrial implementation. Surely in the future we will have cheap and efficient solar panels. But this is only one type of possible alternative energy sources. Surely there will be others that we can’t even imagine right now.

We’ve got little choice than to get used to these renewable sources of energy if we want to have enough to fulfill our energy needs in the distant future. These fossil fuels can be depleted and it takes a really long time for it to build up again.

Sources for these renewable energy may be difficult and expensive to put up but what good project isn’t? And I bet these calls for it being so expensive are made by oil companies and its allies to dissuade the general public from buying into the idea of switching from the traditional energy source to these energy sources that can be renewable and used.
Making the switch to renewable energy sources is in a way, inevitable. But with humans, we’ll naturally be resistant to change.

Renewable energy is nowhere near as flawless as people say it is. Not all countries and locations can use it. Energy generation occurs at certain times of the day, not around the clock. There are also problems with the capacity of the renewable energy source and the high cost of production