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

energy

than ever before since it contributes to the preservation of the environment and is economically sound.

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. To take the fastest growing sector as an example, solar panels can only be used in the presence of strong and direct sunlight, and 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.

Furthermore

, problems of unpredictability can be mitigated by improving battery machinery (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 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.