Renewable or non-renewable energy?

I learned about energy in an environmental science class, so I was curious, so I looked it up and found out that a lot of things were not what people thought.

In recent years, whether it's on TV, social media, or billboards, you've always seen people advocating for renewable energy, whether a city is proposing to use 100 percent renewable energy in a few years, or some organization's leader recommends the use of renewable energy? At this time, there will always be a question.

 

"Is renewable energy really good for the environment?" or "Is renewable energy better than non-renewable energy?"

The answer to this question is not absolute, people take it for granted that renewable energy sources are less harmful to the environment because they do not emit pollutants and are cleaner than fossil fuel or natural gas, but is this the truth? In fact, this is only a subjective judgment of people. People see part of the help of renewable energy in improving environmental pollution but ignore everything behind it. For example, solar energy, people think that solar energy or wind energy is clean, they do not make any Pollution, but in fact, solar energy and wind energy are the most useless energy sources in some ways, first, solar energy supply requires a lot of solar panels, and wind energy requires a lot of windmills, most of the time, the government clears a large area to put the solar panels, and the living environment of wildlife will be squeezed, and most wildlife will die. Second, solar energy and wind energy require a lot of resources to build, unless people find better craftsmanship or this problem cannot be solved temporarily, but people regard the cost of energy production as 0. Third, wind energy uses windmills, and many birds are involved in windmills and die. Fourth, wind energy and solar energy provide very little energy. This is where the advantages of nuclear energy come into play.

Nuclear energy, people think that the most dangerous energy source, but is it really that dangerous? The answer is no because nuclear energy kills far fewer people than other energy sources, and nuclear energy is very clean now, and if the same resources are used to build nuclear energy instead of solar energy, nuclear energy emits the energy will be several times that of the solar panel.

Is renewable energy so useless? I don’t think so. The advantage of renewable energy lies in being renewable. The resources on the earth are limited. Even now, renewable energy consumes a lot of resources. But if we care about the energy we are using, we can use cleaner and greener energy one day.

Author: Zengtao Lian

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