The Pros And Cons Of The Consumption Of Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels are being used up at a faster rate than they can regenerate. The British Petroleum report provides alarming figures. At the current rate of consumption, the coal reserves on Earth will be spent within 110 years. Global reserves of oil and natural gas are even lower, and will be spent within the next fifty years respectively. Despite these statistics suggest that fossil fuels are a reliable long-term energy source, these numbers are misleading. Due to global population and energy needs are steadily increasing, it is only natural that the consumption rates of fossil fuels will rise accordingly. This means that the projected time frames of the availability of fossil fuels will shrink exponentially.
The United States has the …show more content…
Biomass such as public waste tends to lower the usage of fossil fuel energy during manufacturing stage. Up to 2,000-kcal/ kg to 4,000-kcal/ kg heat energy is used throughout the process. This can be easily compared to other fossil materials like coals that have almost the same heat value. Thus, such waste materials can be used as alternatives to the fossil fuels that are much more cost effective and easily available in market. Moreover, t¬¬he adverse impacts of climate change can be avoided by changing the distribution rates of fossil fuels and, at the same time, generating more alternative energy plans. This can be done in the next 40-50 years. On the basis of figures from the Swedish and French light water reactor programs, one way to achieve this alternative source of energy is expansion of global nuclear power. The historical evidences show that if the nuclear power is built at only per capita rate of these nations while they are expanding nationally, then fossil fuels could be replaced globally in less than a decade.
Solar and wind energies have seen unrelenting growth in the past few years. They broke new records in 2015. While the fossil fuels market crash is demanding downsizing in those industries. Clean energy is receiving twice as much global funding as fossil fuels, with the help of government subsidies alternative energy is exceeding fossil fuels two to one. Out of all the alternative energies,
The United States has the …show more content…
Biomass such as public waste tends to lower the usage of fossil fuel energy during manufacturing stage. Up to 2,000-kcal/ kg to 4,000-kcal/ kg heat energy is used throughout the process. This can be easily compared to other fossil materials like coals that have almost the same heat value. Thus, such waste materials can be used as alternatives to the fossil fuels that are much more cost effective and easily available in market. Moreover, t¬¬he adverse impacts of climate change can be avoided by changing the distribution rates of fossil fuels and, at the same time, generating more alternative energy plans. This can be done in the next 40-50 years. On the basis of figures from the Swedish and French light water reactor programs, one way to achieve this alternative source of energy is expansion of global nuclear power. The historical evidences show that if the nuclear power is built at only per capita rate of these nations while they are expanding nationally, then fossil fuels could be replaced globally in less than a decade.
Solar and wind energies have seen unrelenting growth in the past few years. They broke new records in 2015. While the fossil fuels market crash is demanding downsizing in those industries. Clean energy is receiving twice as much global funding as fossil fuels, with the help of government subsidies alternative energy is exceeding fossil fuels two to one. Out of all the alternative energies,