Topic: Our future with renewable energy. - page 2. (Read 1001 times)

In my opinion, we have no other choice than to massively introduce renewable energy sources and try to replace traditional ones with them - oil, gas and coal, which cause irreparable damage to the environment and dramatically change the climate on our planet. Talk about it being expensive, difficult and not so fast is absolutely unfounded. After all, we are actually talking about the survival of humanity.
In addition, alternative energy sources have been developed relatively recently, but are being improved at a rapid pace and their cost is falling. I think that over time they will almost completely replace traditional fossil energy sources and this will be very cool.

Coal is a very specific resource. And the roots of "preference" are historical. I recommend reading the history of Britain, and the very difficult decisions associated with mine closures. The fact is that coal mining by the 20th century used huge numbers of workers. In many countries and in many mines, mining is done purely by hand, and that means thousands and thousands of people, and even entire small towns. Plus - the cost of coal and the cost of its purchase or subsidy programs - a very tidbit for those who trade in coal. That's why some countries continue to exploit cheap labor, making money on it, while closing the mines will not only deprive miners of income, but also create very significant social tensions. Social tensions in the mining regions, for example, are the main reason why developed countries subsidize and support the coal industry. Just imagine what would happen if 100.000 miners who do not know anything but coal mining and the saddest thing is that they do not want to change anything in their lives.

The main obstacle and actually the first step that must be taken is this which is very difficult. Namely infrastructure development which is quite expensive and requires quite prolonged development until finally everything is ready in every area from big cities to remote areas. But actually the expensive financing is also equivalent to financing fossil fuel infrastructure too. Imagine if we started from a primitive state and started to discover fossil energy and we built the infrastructure. Of course, even then everything will feel very expensive. But still, all this was done slowly so that in the end development was evenly distributed in all regions and everyone began to use and get the benefits. So the development of renewable energy infrastructure will be the same. Yes, the costs will seem expensive, but when development continues slowly and gradually, without realizing it, all the infrastructure will be spread out and ready to be used.

The point is that all development will definitely be very expensive.
But because of the urgent need, everything will still be built, even if it has to be done little by little. Moreover, currently we are truly witnessing the destruction of nature. Where the climate is becoming hot due to global warming. So all countries are required to adopt renewable energy structurally and slowly. step by step. And ultimately everyone who currently even rejects renewable energy will eventually accept it and use it if the infrastructure is in place.

The point is that everything will ultimately use renewable energy. But it may take years or even decades to completely switch to renewable energy. But fossil energy will probably still exist and will only be used in limited portions.

Yes, we can. If you look at the Kardashev scale, it is possible that the world is dependent on renewable energy sources. On that scale, our world will be able to depend on renewable energy sources on a scale of 1 and now we are on a scale of 0.7, meaning we are approaching civilization where we can utilize all renewable resources on the earth and the sun. Maybe we will not be able to completely get rid of fossil energy because it is also needed to make our world warmer, but perhaps the amount will be drastically reduced and its use will be more restricted.

government around the world always prefer coal for god knows reason maybe they consider coal to be more cheaper thats why they want it but we all know the mining activities as well as the process of generating power causes massive pollution, but then again the renewable sources of energy are still in its premature stage i think it'd be better if someone like elon could somehow innovate and invent better solution for renewable energy thats both easy to mantain, cheap and could generate massive amount of energy because the biggest hurdle with using something like solar panel is that most of the time it doesn't produce that much energy and requires a lot of solar panel to power one big household consistently.
at the end of the day its government that honestly should incentivizes the use of renewable energies.

The initial investment is pretty expensive, though. It's worthful on long term (decades), but you need a very large budget to have access to this technology, unless the government creates a financing program, so you can pay for it in monthly parcels for several years. However, they don't do this, because it would affect important sectors of society, like fossil energy production and the public companies which sell energy to the population at very expensive costs.

You are right when you say about the private sector, as the only way we can have access to renewable energy sources is through paying very expensive costs to them.

That allows only a very slight portion of the society to adopt green energy, consequently not allowing the world to benefit from its advantages in large scale. I truly believe there is a lobby forbidding green energy adoption from growing in high intensity right now, what is a pitty, although there is nothing we can do about it, besides paying the price it costs.

In my opinion, this is very significant news:
"The world's largest solar power plant, Al Dhafra, was launched in the United Arab Emirates. The opening of the facility took place on the eve of the Climate Change Conference (COP28), which will be held from November 30 to December 12 in the UAE."


The news that the largest oil supplier is investing huge amounts of money in alternative energy sounds interesting.

Speaking of “trends” - type into Google the search phrase “launched the largest solar station” - and you will see how many such projects there are, all over the world!


Link for the lazy https://www.google.com/search?q=launched+the+largest+solar+station

Renewable source of energy is very exceptional, affordable, and very minimal price to maintain, I think this is what the world needs at this moment,  this is a source of energy that's free from environmental pollution, and very cheap to buy, If the world population can fully develop more equipment that is used to build this energy source, we won't be complaining of lack of energy in some part of the world, I came from a village in Nigeria, we don't have electricity, but something happened 2 years ago, some group of persons came telling my people about solar energy, how they can electrify my village with that means if we allow them to come in, at first we saw it as a dream, but they later built the solar turbine in my place, as am talking to us now, we have uninterrupted electricity supply and we pay little,  I believe our government knows all this, is just that they won't do it because of their selfish reasons, the only visible thing here is the private sector investment.

What impact will occur when the whole world tries to develop renewable energy and will this be a solution to the current extreme global warming problem? We are not one of the experts who can accurately review the impact of renewable energy, but what we know is that when this is done, there will be sectors that will start to be neglected and the way to develop may have to sacrifice other things. Dependence on nature may be an obstacle because unpredictable extreme weather occurs at any time and the costs required are also quite high to develop renewable energy so not all countries do it.

There must be an in-depth study when renewable energy begins to be developed and perhaps we also have to look at human ability to utilize it. If not, the development of renewable energy will only be enjoyed by a few people who have the ability to enjoy it and small communities will find it difficult to enjoy it if they are charged with having to pay for it.

Every country should save the their non renewable resources. United Arab Emirates does know the value of petrol ,after 70 -100  years petrol ends up. Life will be very difficult for that countries who did not prepare for future. We should not waste water because after 100 years ,it will end . Researchs prove that non renewable resources should be use in limited quantity ,so we should use petrol in car for necessary conditions. Everyone should be aware of the future of our next generations. Gas will be end in the next century and USA is being prepare for future .

At the current situation we are using lot of nonrenewable energy. At the enough time the sources will end then we can't regenerate the nonrenewable energy. In future the main source of our energy is renewable energy sources. In future with can't generate electricity with burning coal we have to generate electricity by using sunlight, air , watar etc. in future the whole Earth will depend on the renewable energy because the using of nonrenewable energy will in soon our future generation will fully depend on the renewable energy because one day nonrenewable energy will finish and its impossible to regenerate it.

More or less the tycoon that is benefitting from the current energy supply situation will counter this action and will act accordingly and might possibly lead the change making sure that they will still hold the power to do the changes and can be able to milk individuals through their offered services.

If the same group of people will manage and create the shift to renewable energy, then I do not think that there will be a change in the condition of people buying the service.  It will still be monopolized by the people behind the current energy source system.


It is worth trying but the government make sure that it will not be monopolized by a single company and there should be healthy competition in offering materials and services to keep the price and quality in check.

Maintenance costs are often an obstacle to the adoption of renewable energy, just look at solar panels for example, the expensive price may not necessarily be profitable for the user. In fact, it is cheaper to use electricity provided by the state rather than private solar panels. if you still don't have a stable income to maintain the maintenance costs of the renewable energy you have then avoid using it, in several countries their government has started to develop renewable energy but the distribution is still not evenly distributed as is the case in my own country.

The initial cost to setup the renewable energy production units will be high, when the outcome and the time period is calculated it used to be good and more effective than non renewable energy sources. Recently most of the European Countries have begun to concentrate much on renewable energy sources, and the realisation happened when the Russian oil import were stopped due to the sanction. It takes more years for the infrastructure development, and this is really good for the environment.

I can agree with the expensive installation costs, however, once they installed, they will enjoy free energy.
There may be maintenance costs, but it may be minimal afterwards. So for me, it is worth exploring the use of renewable energy.
However, they need a very good plan on this, so as not to waste their financial resources for nothing.
We are already heading to the exploration of these renewable sources, so for me, it is worth exhausting the potential of these free sources.

Interesting explanation from you OP. I admit that this is seen as an important step to maintain environmental sustainability as well as a currently developing issue, namely climate change, and this is also capable of boosting economic growth and creating jobs in the renewable energy sector.

More generally, of course each country is ready and not, where they are ready with existing resources but are still hampered in adopting renewable energy technology, for example renewable energy installations due to high costs.
     

On the one hand - yes we are dependent on fossil fuels. On the other hand - we know very well that these reserves are very limited ! In addition - as the existing sources are depleted, the development of new ones will become more and more expensive, and soon it will simply become another tool of MANIPULATION and coercion of entire countries and regions.
At the same time, we are now witnessing the active development of exactly those technologies described in the title of the topic - technologies to increase the efficiency of electricity generation, infrastructure development, storage technologies.... This is the next round of civilization development, as there was a transition from horse-drawn transport and manual labor to internal combustion engines and mechanization of labor. This transition is inevitable

   Government's investment in residual energy will go a long way in boosting the country's economy. Renewable energies are highly essential because, when they get used up, there's always a means for regeneration.  Fossil fuels for instance, once used up cannot be regenerated unless combustion occurs again. And this combustion emit carbon which is harmful to humans, thereby causing air pollution. Whereas in renewable it’s is not case.
   Energy occurs steadily in nature and so one just has to find a means of making it a source of revenue, it'd really help because, there'd be no need to spend excessively on other sources, as more products can be derived from energy sources.

there are countries that even today are yet not industrialized. they can't manufacture something other than their local stuff and only for their consumption.
if the United Nations for example is going to force them to use renewable energy while they have winters all the time in their country, they will have a blackout for the whole 4 months.

lucky are those countries that already become rich by industrializing themselves that had been building their economy through fossil fuels for a century.

Countries those have large funds are able to boost to the economy, but that's only applied to a short term plan, they need sustainability and renewable energy because those offer long-term economic benefits that are essential for a better future. prioritizing renewable energy sources is the best policy a government can make to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. Governments should be investing in efficiency measures of energy, because that's the best idea that can save businesses and consumers money on their energy expenditures. Sustainability should be top priority, because that can create a more dependable and sustainable economy for future generations.