Renewable Energy

With a growing population around the world, the need for energy is grows as well. In modern society, we use electrical energy for multiple tasks such as operating vehicle, machines, for everyday uses. Every year the electrical energy needed requires mass amounts for such purposes. Which is created in power plants, for example, the Hoover Dam. Scientists continue to look for alternative sources to quench our thirst for more power. Renewable energy is a great example of what scientists are striving for to help quench the thirst. It is a natural resource that can also be naturally replenished. Renewable energy is the best solution for energy consumption, to ensure our survival. Renewable energy is the most reliable resource due to that it provides benefits globally and to human individuals. It helps maintain our energy infrastructure, well as provides long-term benefits. It helps combat global warming and other problems associated with fossil fuels. The environmental quality and preservation is the goal of the use of renewable energy. Renewable energy should be considered throughout the world because of the potential impact we may have on the environment. Renewable energy is the best solution because it provides long-term and environmental benefits. On a global scale renewable energy supplies a significant benefit to our planet such as, lowering energy costs, job creation, and preserving the environment. With energy costs continuously on the rise and more frequent disasters affecting us as a whole, the fact remains that moving toward renewable energy forms most certainly makes these problems vanish. It may not be an easy task; it is safe to say that the world is headed in a green direction.
Citizens and community members everywhere are seeking smart solutions to our two biggest problems – the economic downturn and the ecological collapse. The nation is finally realizing that the solutions to these twin crises are linked. That is because nearly everything that is good for the environment – and practically everything that is good in the fight against global warming is a job. Solar panels don’t install themselves. Wind turbines don’t manufacture themselves. Homes and buildings don’t retrofit or weatherize themselves. In our industrial society, trees don’t even plant themselves, anymore. Real people must do all of that work.
In the long run, smart policy and investment will drive down prices for clean, renewable, homegrown energy sources. But if we cling to the old, carbon-intensive energy technologies, then the price we all pay in volatile economic costs, in climate disruption and in threats to our national security will continue to climb. And the poor will be hit first and worst by every one of those rising costs. A well thought out shift to a clean energy economy offers more work, more wealth and better health to disadvantaged communities than does any plausible, business-as-usual scenario.
In a time of economic peril, let us never forget that everything that is required to make America’s economy cleaner, greener and more resilient is a career pathway for someone. Or a business contract. Or an entrepreneurial opportunity. We can power America through this recession by powering America with clean energy. We can create millions of jobs that will make our people wealthier and the Earth healthier.
Even though renewable energy is a
 key component in addressing the current energy crisis; however an industry, government, or company that seeks to construct a renewable energy facility may be met with significant opposition within the community. Such opposition can be caused by several factors including: knowledge levels about energy sources and production; trust, or lack of trust, in government and industry; and beliefs about the advantages and disadvantages of proposed renewable energy technologies. Although community members may support the general concept of renewable energy, they also may have specific concerns regarding the potential adverse economic, environmental, and public safety impacts on their own neighborhood.
First and foremost, it should be noted that a green stimulus is an inherent contradiction in terms. The environmental movement itself is, by design, anti-growth. After all, these are the individuals and organizations that regularly fight to stop new factories, power plants, and construction projects.
Part of the green stimulus involves using taxpayer dollars to subsidize renewable energy, especially wind and solar for electric generation and biofuels for transportation. This would backfire and hurt the economy. It is well established that affordable energy is critical to economic health, and higher energy costs will hurt the prospects for an economic recovery and post-recovery growth. But virtually all of the alternative energy sources that are part of the green stimulus are more expensive than their conventional counterparts. Support for renewables would likely cost more jobs than are created. For example, subsidies for wind and solar energy would, at least from the narrow perspective of the wind and solar industries, create new jobs as more of these systems are manufactured and installed. But the tax dollars needed to help pay for them cost jobs elsewhere, as would the pricey electricity they produce.
The only reason to consider promoting these renewables is for their environmental benefits, which are questionable in most cases. But the economic argument for saddling the nation with this costlier energy falls completely flat. Some suggest that an entire 'new' economy could be based on renewable energy sources, but the only thing new about it would be how weak and globally uncompetitive it is.
I believe energy needs to be conserved to protect our environment from drastic changes, to save the depleting resources for our future generations. The rate at which the energy is being produced and consumed can damage our world in many ways. In other words, it helps us to save the environment. We can reduce those impacts by consuming less energy. It is important for us to realize how energy is useful to us and how can we avoid it getting wasted. I believe renewable energy is the best solution because of it’s potential; the positive impacts on environment, and can be naturally replenished.
Growing energy demands, rising energy costs, and increasing concern about global climate change have sparked strong interest in utilizing renewable energy technologies. Renewable energy technologies are clean, environmentally friendly, and an important step toward an independent energy future. Renewable energy is the best solution for energy consumption, to ensure our survival.

Work Cited:
David Craddrock, (2008). Renewable Energy Made Easy:Free energy from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, and Other Alternative Energy Sources. 1st ed. Ohio: Atlantic Publishing Group.
Van Jones, JD, President of Green For All, Stated the following in his (Jan. 13, 2009) testimony “Opportunities for Green Growth: Myths & Realities About Green Jobs,” presented at the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Hearing “Stimulus Package and Energy: Creating Energy: Creating Jobs, Opportunities for All,” avaible at globalwarming.house.gov:
Ben Lieberman, JD, Senior Policy Analyst in Energy and the Environment in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Fundation, stated the following in his Jan. 26, 2009 article “Green Stimulus: Tying Economic Package to Energy and Environmental Plan is not Workable,” available at heritage.org