Advantages and disadvantages of perpetual and renewable energy resources

Environmental Science

Our current addiction to oil will eventually ruin the world we live in. Oil and coal are destroying the natural balance of the earth. In response to this, new developments have been made in renewable energy sources that will help reduce our dependency on oil and provide cleaner energy for us to use. These new energy sources have both their advantages and disadvantages, but will prove a necessary step in the right direction for our near future.

Compared to our current energy addiction to oil and coal, renewable forms of energy prove to have several key benefits that will prove great advantages in the modern context. Solar, wind, ocean biomass, and geothermal energy sources are all perpetual and will not run out like our traditional energy sources like oil (White 2009). They cannot be exhausted and provide clean energy without the nasty effects oil and gas has been seen to have which are now causing the complications associated with global warming. According to research, "since their sources are natural the cost of operations is reduced and they also require less maintenance on their plants," which proves incredible benefits in comparison to our old energy sources (Hick 2009).

However, not every element of renewable energy will prove advantageous for us to implement. All of the forms of renewable energy have not been mass implemented on a large scale in the past. This means that we would have o completely redesign our energy plans in order to accommodate these new technologies. This will prove labor intensive and costly in the initial implementation stages (Hick 2009).