Fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) are the main sources in many countries, but in some countries, the use of alternative sources of energy (wind energy and solar energy) are encouraged. To what extent do you think it is a positive or negative development?

Until

few decades

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a few decades

ago fossil fuels were only the sources of

energy

across the

globe but

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globe, but

at present there are other alternatives exist to produce

the clean

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cleaner

energy

without damaging the environment. We have been witnessing that these days the production and usage of renewal

energy

is growing drastically in many nations. I agree that

this

is a very positive thing when it comes to

environmental safety point

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the environmental safety point

of view and

also

to overcome

energy

scarcity The main advantage of using alternate sources is that the conventional sources like coal and

oil

are non-renewable. They take thousands of years to form and we are consuming more day by day with growing

demand

. What if

oil

reserves

goes

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go

down? Any

supply

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supply, demand

demand

mismatch would lead to an

energy

crisis situation.

For example

Gulf

Oil

Corporation recently revealed that, the

oil

reserves in the Middle East are drastically

decreasing which

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decreasing, which

is an alarming sign and it could lead to

oil

crisis soon or later. So it is advisable to go for alternative sources

such

as wind, solar power facilities to produce unlimited

energy

. It is evident that burning coal,

oil

, natural gas

generate

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generates

enormous

pollution which

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pollution, which

is causing harm to the environment.

For example

, today we

are seeing

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see

climate changes across the globe due the temperatures rising every

year significantly

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year, significantly

because of the carbon dioxide and other air pollutants produced by burning fossil fuels. As population

growing

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grows

across the countries, the

demand

for the

energy

also

increasing. So these days Governments in many countries are preferring to generate renewable

energy

to meet the power

demand

by setting up wind, solar

plants

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plant's

plant

infrastructure etc.

For example

, the government of Andhra Pradesh able to produce surplus

energy

after setting up more than 10000 wind turbines across the state and it is one and only state in India to supply

un interrupted

having undisturbed continuity

uninterrupted

and unlimited power to the people of the state. To put it in a nutshell, the use of alternative sources is a very positive development and all the Governments across the globe should invest and research on renewable

energy

projects.