Solar Mirrors
Green energy is a subject that we have become all too familiar with as we venture into the 21st century. Our carbon footprint clearly marks the road we have to take in order to survive.
Fossil fuels are getting less and less and coal fired alternatives produce too much carbon to be sustainable. Large industries have, therefore, started using clean and sustainable alternatives compared to what has been used in the last two hundred years. There are many such creative alternatives; from wind farms to solar radiation mirrors. The innovative capability of human ingenuity seems endless.
Wind Farm
There are even wave farms that make electricity from the natural movement of waves. These have been constructed on the sea bed where large moving panels are swayed by the movement of the sea. This movement is then captured and stored as electric energy which is created without the production of carbon and can be sustainable in the long term with a minimal amount of maintenance.
Agucadoura Wave Farm
Twenty years ago bio-fuel production encouraged farmers to change their crops in order to be able to create oil that could be used instead of petrol. The alternative, however, has proven itself to use too much carbon in the creation of this fuel and has been replaced by viable alternatives. For example, water powered vehicles that simply use a device that you insert into your engine that splits the hydrogen from the water molecule and produces clean energy and battery powered vehicles that can travel 1000 miles before a recharge is needed.
It seems that there will soon be a way to convert our cars’ engines to be able to adapt to the many alternatives of fossil fuel. But, while the world is waiting desperately for a constructive alternative for clean and efficient energy, time is running out.
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Greenpeace
Planet Science
H2Logic.com
Tags: clean energy, solar mirrors, wave farms, wind farms
