Hum 111 the Best Renewable Energy Source

Solar Power: The Best Renewable Energy Source?

While I do not accept either side of this argument, I think that both sides could be on to something if they could compromise a little. We are all well aware of the dangers associated with offshore drilling and how expensive the initial setup, maintenance, and efforts to clean up oil spills can be, so the ideas of the opposed about how expensive Obama’s push for cleaner and renewable power sources is unnecessary are a little exaggerated. When you look at history and America’s dependency on foreign oil, you will find links to events such as the war in Iraq that everybody is so opposed to. So here you have a country with a dependency on foreign oil that is willing to go over a trillion dollars in debt in an attempt to capitalize on oil reserves in the middle east and cover it up with talk of terrorism and hostility towards Americans. My question is how can an alternative source of power be more expensive than our country’s dependency on oil?

The people opposed to Obama’s push for renewable energy should consider the availability of each resource. Coal and petroleum are natural resources; we cannot expect them to last forever. We have been refining natural resources for years to supply our country’s growing demand for energy and these reserves will eventually run dry. Prices will sky-rocket even higher than they have in the past century once the demand has outgrown the supply, and we will be right back at square one, considering new energy sources, once the world’s supply has been depleted. Solar power, however, has been around for billions of years and will continue to be for a presumed few billion more. Converting the energy from the sun into usable energy has been a thing since the 1980’s, taking off again recently due to the growing demand of energy with astounding technological acceleration. With this technology and how available solar power is, we could build facilities that harness enough power of the sun to...