Reliance on finite supplies of foreign oil and on coal fired electric power plan
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Question
Reliance on finite supplies of foreign oil and on coal fired electric power plants causes ever increasing prices that we must pay for the oil and the deleterious effects on our environment from both as sources of greenhouse gasses contributing to global warming.
There are several renewable sources of energy available to the world. These include:
Wind power (both large scale wind turbines and household sized roof mounted wind turbines to co-generate electricity)
Solar water heating (roof mounted solar collectors)
Solar photovoltaic electric generation (solar cells mounted on roofs to co-generate electricity)
Ocean wave generation of electricity
In transportation, the development of all electric and hybrid electric cars
Please pick one of these topics, do internet research on it and discuss the ECONOMIC impact on the overall economy that national adoption of that choice would have and discuss what the drawbacks are to adopting that system in the near future.
Explanation / Answer
first of all everything other than oil is very expensive to build and maintain and the electricity it produces it not enough to make it worth it, or there are not enough locations to put the plants/windmills/solar panels(like dams, we have already damned most of the usable rivers, solar we don't have too many places that get tons and tons of daylight, wind very few places are windy enough for enough hours a day for it to be worth the cost of putting them up, they are a like a million each windmill) but on the good side impact on the environmental is less than what regular oil plants, once its there we wont have to worry about having to replace the hardware because wind, ocean and solar power will never run out. Electric cars pros are that they are much cleaner than regular cars and they are quieter, also it cost alot less to run them and there is less maintenance to do because there are fewer parts but the cons are they arnt very good for long drives which is very important in the US the most the best electric cars will get is 300 miles and they take forever to charge up again. Also they cost way more than a regular cars so most people cant afford them yet, these thing will be a possible choice in the future when thse methods get more refined but right now the best choice is oil because we already have the infrastructure built and it is the cheapest solution.