Renewable Energy Ideas that Could
Change the World
Author:
Admin
Date of
Publication: February 12, 2011
Summary: Many people like the idea
of switching to the alternative energy source solar power. Even though solar
power plants are very energy efficient and create huge amounts of electricity,
consistency is the problem. Solar power on earth cannot be harvested during bad
weather conditions or during the night. A renewable source of energy that could
change the world is solar satellites. Solar satellites have an advantage over
solar power plants because they are located above the weather conditions and
can create electricity 24 hours a day. This technology is in very early stages
and the scientists in NASA are working on getting the equipment/materials into
space. While potentially an excellent solution, the issues of the expensive
costs of getting materials in space, and the technology required to send the
collected energy back to earth for consumption is not yet possible. There first
challenge is to make this experiment possible. This way of collecting energy
could reduce the amount of coal and natural gas we have to use; keeping the
coal miners out of danger. If solar satellites can be made and used, it will
solve the world’s need of unlimited energy. Even though fossil fuels will run
out at a time period, solar power will always be available.
Opinion/Reflection:
Solar satellites
will be a great way to produce huge amounts of energy without producing any
pollution or waste. It is environmental friendly and can create energy 24 hours
a day. Before today I never thought that this kind of technology could happen.
Even though they are still in the early stages of making this dream real with
the technology today, anything can happen. My neighbor has solar panels on
their house and said that it saves them a great amount of money. There only
negative thing about solar power is that you eventually have to turn on your
electricity using coal or natural gas. They told me that if solar panels could
create electricity during the night it would be a miracle. What NASA and scientists are trying to do can
also hurt coal and natural gas companies greatly. Switching to only solar power
and oil for cars will potentially make the unemployment rate increase. There
are pros and cons to this source of energy we just need to figure out what outweighs
what.
Questions:
1) What
are some pros and cons to switching to solar power using the solar satellite? (2
for each, at least)
2) Do
you think we will have the technology to make the solar satellite possible in
the next few years? Explain?
Opinion:
ReplyDeleteI think this is great that we have advanced this far with alternative energy. If this becomes possible, we will be able to have all electricity run on solar. Since solar produces no pollution, it is so much better than fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas. I can relate this to an earlier post on our blog talked about the pros and cons solar power. That post did not mention collecting solar energy at night, and that was actually one of the cons. But now, with this new way to collect solar power, we could see an increasing amount of solar power customers in the future.
question #2
Yes, I think we can do this in the next few years. we already have satellites in space that are able to send us information about space. It seems to me that we could attach the solar panels to a satellite, and transmit the power back to earth. That last step would be the most challenging, but i think with our current technology, we could figure it out in a few short years.
Opinion:
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that NASA has put so much thought into an alternative energy source. I believe that if it is possible, we should work on getting these satellite because they will solve our major problem of finding a renewable energy. However, even when we do use these, I believe we will still rely on oil since the oil companies will try to get their maximun profit until we must make the full transfer to alternative energy.
Question 2:
I believe that we probably have the technology available now, we just haven't figured it out yet. I also think that when they do figure out the correct technology, they won't actually transer to using these satellites for energy for another couple of years.