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?

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Until
few decades
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a few decades
ago fossil fuels were only the sources of
energy
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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
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without damaging the environment. We have been witnessing that these days the production and usage of renewal
energy
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is growing drastically in many nations. I agree that
this
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is a very positive thing when it comes to
environmental safety point
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the environmental safety point
of view and
also
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to overcome
energy
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scarcity The main advantage of using alternate sources is that the conventional sources like coal and
oil
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are non-renewable. They take thousands of years to form and we are consuming more day by day with growing
demand
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. What if
oil
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reserves
goes
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go
down? Any
supply
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supply, demand
demand
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mismatch would lead to an
energy
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crisis situation.
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Gulf
Oil
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Corporation recently revealed that, the
oil
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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
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crisis soon or later. So it is advisable to go for alternative sources
such
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as wind, solar power facilities to produce unlimited
energy
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. It is evident that burning coal,
oil
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, natural gas
generate
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generates
enormous
pollution which
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pollution, which
is causing harm to the environment.
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, 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
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for the
energy
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also
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increasing. So these days Governments in many countries are preferring to generate renewable
energy
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to meet the power
demand
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by setting up wind, solar
plants
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plant's
plant
infrastructure etc.
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, the government of Andhra Pradesh able to produce surplus
energy
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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
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projects.
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