Nowadays most green energy is becoming evermore prevalent in both developed and developing countries. Some argue they greatly reduce costs and are better for the environment, others believe they are a serious threat to energy security. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
The world today uses more renewable power than ever before since it contributes to the preservation of the environment and is economically sound;
however
, some argue that green energy
could undermine the reliability of the global supply as a result
of its dependency on climatic and meteorological phenomena. This
essay will examine both views, but personally, I strongly advocate the adoption of renewable sources of efficiency.
On the one hand, opponents of renewables claim that the world could face disruptions to the power supply should they be fully adopted. This
is largely due to the fact that many green energy
technologies
currently in use depend on changeable and unpredictable phenomena such
as wind, rain and cloud cover. To take the fastest growing sector as an example, solar panels can only be used in the presence of strong and direct sunlight, and although
the problem of directness has already been somewhat solved with moving panel arrays, a cloudy few days could still result in a blackout if we depended entirely on solar power; something that is
unlikely to occur today given current oil stockpiles.
However
, fossil fuels are a larger threat to energy
security since they are certainly finite in quantity, whereas renewable energy
is effectively infinite; once the Earth’s oil is depleted, there will be no energy
security without green energy
technologies
. Furthermore
, problems of unpredictability can be mitigated by improving battery technologies
(to create a larger buffer), building more renewable energy
generators (to increase supply during ideal conditions) and improving current technologies
(to increase efficiency), such
as in the moving solar panel example. Proponents of renewables therefore
claim that they are the most economically sound option.
To conclude, while many may believe that green energy
technologies
are a threat to energy
security, the fossil fuels they frequently promote are a greater threat, and renewables are in fact the only sound option, both economically and environmentally.Submitted by sumani.rajput1994 on
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