Why Alternative Energy Matters?

Solar Energy: Big Potential with limitations 

Solar energy is usually the first thing that people picture when they hear renewable energy. It does make sense because everything on earth runs on sunlight, and one way or another fossil fuels run on sunlight and wind. Even the growth of plants are all powered indirectly by the sun. So it makes sense that using the sun's energy to help us grow and power our things seems very reasonable(Mutiti et al., n.d.)

When talking about solar energy, there are a lot of things to like. The biggest selling point of solar energy is that sunlight is basically unlimited. We have been making use of the sun for centuries in simple ways such as south facing windows or stone floors that absorb and release heat.And new technology that has taken it way further with photovoltaic panels and solar thermal systems, with which we can now turn sunlight, directly into electricity. There is something crazy about the fact that we can cover a few percent of the world’s deserts with panels, which could in theory meet the planets total energy needs .Another thing is once panels are installed. They produce power without greenhouse gas or air pollution. Solar works very well for a small scale as well as you can put them on the roof of your house and generate your own electricity (Mutiti et al., n.d.)

As it sounds, all like positive solar still isn’t perfect as the biggest problem is that it only works when the sun is out and shining so at night or on cloudy days, solar output will drop so I like Cole or oil you can’t store sunlight in a barrel and use it for later which means solar can’t keep everything running unless you’ve got back up from batteries or from other power sources also depending on where you live it could play a big role if you live in a sunny place like Texas or Arizona solar is a very strong tool but somewhere very cloudy like New England or Seattle. It wouldn’t really pay off as if you weren’t in a very sunny state but all that said so we are still one of the most powerful alternative energy tools that we have for cutting carbon emissions and fighting climate change as it cleans up the earth. It gets cheaper every year and it gives people more control over their own power, though it is not fully positive. The feature of energy isn’t going to be just that one source it is going to be a very mix source of alternative energy, such as wind, hydropower, and geothermal, and who knows maybe there will be new ways ,that we have not thought of to create new alternative energies with no flaws because alternative energy is a source that we will really need in the future.(Mutiti et al., n.d.)