Alternative Sources of Energy Can Be Easily Established. Discuss in Relation to Your Country Compared to One Other Country.

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Alternative sources of energy can be easily established. Discuss in relation to your country compared to one other country.

NAME: XIAOYI WANG IRENE

GROUP: BUSINESS 16

Alternative sources of energy can be easily established. Discuss in relation to your country compared to one other country.

Alternative energy can be defined as a kind of energy which can be utilized well to replace fossil fuels and do not generate detrimental results which fossil fuels using may cause, for example, carbon dioxide emissions (Michigan Legislature, 2008). Based on the definition, there is no doubt that using alternative energy is good to environment. Many European countries, such as the United Kingdom, utilize hydroelectricity to support its electricity using. However, it is not easy for every country to establish alternative sources of energy, even in the UK.

Nowadays, many countries pay more attention on scientific and technological development than before. It can be easily understood that all things we use now to maintain our daily lives are the consequences of technological development, for example, computer, mobile phone, etc. However, with the increasing availability of new technologies, we need more power to keep their works. If we substitute alternative energies for fossil fuels, can these energies maintain our daily lives using? Let’s use wind power as an example. In China, wind power capacity will be reached 200 GW[1] by 2020, 400 GW by 2030 and 1000 GW by 2050. How huge amount wind power can generate! Nevertheless, it will only meet 17% of electricity demand in 2050 in China, which means wind power in China contributes only a very small share (Wang, 2011). You may claim that it’s China, where has too many people and where can be joked as an ‘out of control’ country (MacKay, 2009). In that case, let’s see how wind power contributes in the UK. At first, we should know how much wind power could generate, and after that,...