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.

Nowadays most green

energy

is becoming

evermore

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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

energy

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

energy

. 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

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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.