Solar energy as a solution to the global energy crisis

¶ … Energy Policy which reflects the urgency in order to utilize the renewable sources of energy which can provide an alternative for the non-renewable energy in United States of America.

Global Energy Crises

Worldwide energy consumption is at its highest peak and reports suggest that by the end of 2030 the world consumption will increase by 50%. To reduce their cost countries have now turn their attention from the expensive oil energy to cheapest form of energy water. Hydroelectric is one of the most famous forms of it. This increase attention towards water to create energy has resulted in scarcity of water and it is expected that by 2025 more than half the countries will face shortage of fresh water.

Worldwide energy consumption is expected to increase by 2-fold by the end of midcentury because of the population and economic growth. This high demand for energy could be met from fossil energy resources, particularly coal and many other energy resources but the high demand and high consumption has decrease the ready availability of any kind of energy and in future the situation is reported to be much worst. However, a lot of development needs to be done if new process of energy are to be found, carbon neutral energy production and other renewable energy resources requires a large amount of technological development. Among all the energy resources which are renewable, the solar energy resource is the most famous and most useful as it is by far the largest exploitable source among all the renewable energy resources. The amount of energy it provides in one hour is more than a human consumption of energy in one year that much amount of energy can be exploited by the solar energy resource and it can solve the global energy crises in future. Overcoming the world energy crises by the help of solar energy which require the storage of it in huge amount which currently isn't possible in most parts of the world as all the countries are not technological advanced. In U.S. however solar energy has been increased to a much larger extent. People are made aware of it and they feel socially responsible, more and more people are coming towards solar energy or other renewable energy.

Energy is ranked as number one global problem followed by water and food. United States of America and other developed countries like European nations and China are still not facing that much of a problem cause of the finances they have to produce more and more energy. It said that if all the population of the world is to enjoy the same amount of energy resources as people do in the developed countries, we need to generate 60 terawatts to produce that much amount of energy which means around 900 million barrel of oil consumption per day. This describes the real picture of the energy crises the world is facing.

Capstone Energy Solution

The capstone energy favors the energy efficiency and green ways to produce energy, by green ways it mean environmental friendly way of producing energy. Capstone energy covers all the renewable energy resources. The objective of it is to make world an energy efficient place, energy is been produced and lost by usage in no time so in future reports claim that the world will be facing serious energy crises. These new methods produce renewable energy which means that the energy can be reproduced again and again with unlimited amount to resources such as wind and solar energy.

Capstone solution is derived through the latest engineering which is based on high tech turbines. New micro turbines have an efficient watershed energy management. Transforming the way of people think about energy capstone solution has completely changed the perception of energy production. Energy production is always seen as burning resources or energy to produce another type of energy this process involves finishing one energy to create another but now capstone solutions has completely change this. Now there is a concept of renewable energy but for this high technology and efficient use of it is required. Capstone solutions, ensure power availability, reduce energy cost and most importantly it is environmental friendly as it help preserve the environment with its zero emissions profile. Capstone solution is by far more efficient from that traditional back up powers.

History of Major Events

- 1973 OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) was formed and an oil embargo caused oil crises which caused a huge shortage of oil and the prices were raised to more than double. This was the major event in the history which changed the whole complexion of the world energy as oil supply of United States and other countries were blocked by the oil suppliers mainly middle east. After these events United States has learned its lesson and move forward towards new type of energies such as renewable energies.

- 1979 Iranian revolution caused another oil crisis.

-1990 Gulf war caused another oil price shock.

These events caused shortage of oil in many countries and the increased prices raised the import bills to a much larger amount of the importing countries and it forced them to think about an alternative to fuel and renewable energy was the answer. After these events United States and many other countries started focusing on ways to produce renewable energy to ease the pressure from their import bills and to be environmental friendly.

New Tech Energy Policy

The new energy policy should focus on environmental friendly ways to produce energy but before that the focus should be on the reports that claim that the world is heading towards serious energy crisis. The world now is a high tech world and technology previously has helped us achieve wonders and solving this energy crisis wouldn't be any different from that. The engineers and researchers are fully equipped and they all the technology readily available. Events in history has taught everyone a lesson, dependence on oil can be a risky thing to do as most countries are not self-sufficient in it and its very expensive to import. Many new things already have been discovered to produce energy in fact renewable energy; this new renewable energy will change the structure of the world. Countries would no longer be depended on other countries and this renewable energy will change the structure of the world as energy is the number one problem at present. Renewable energy can help produce unlimited energy as energy can be exploited from the sun, which gives that much of energy in one hour which is equivalent to that of 1 year usage of a person. Another way to produce green energy or environmental friendly way to produce energy is through the wind and hydroelectric is another famous renewable energy which is being used the most. Currently renewable energy consist of 9% of United States energy consumption, the policy should focus more and more on this renewable energy as it an answer to the energy crisis.

Hydroelectric Energy

Hydro plant in United States already makes up the largest percentage among the renewable energies; the hydroelectric consist of around 70% of the total renewable energy producing around 370,000 Mega Watt. This resource should be exploited more and more as it is easy to store as compare to other methods of renewable energy and it is easy to produce large amount of energy from this method. Countries who are facing serious energy crisis build a huge damn to produce energy through hydroelectric method so the method is used to produce large amount of energy.

Wind Energy

Wind turbines are used to produce wind energy and it can be used only on those places where wind level is high as sea shores and modern engineering has made it possible to build it on sea where the wind level is at maximum. United States largest wind mill is placed in Texas but more focus should be on placing more wind mills as the country has resources to do it. United States is also placed on an ideal geographical location where in several places wind mill can be build.

Solar Energy

There is plenty of energy which is hitting the earth every day every moment but this plenty of energy is going wasted as it is not exploited in a larger extent. Much of the work should be done in this method of creating energy as it is one of the simplest and easiest methods of producing energy. Geographical location of United States also supports this type of method as most of it parts has 4 weathers. The main issue in this method is how to store the energy engineers are working on this part up till now the best performance of solar method has been observed where energy is produced and used simultaneously but high technology has made it possible to store.

An extremely attractive approach found by researchers and engineers to store solar energy is discovered. This idea is to store solar energy in form of chemical bounds in process at a year-round average efficiency significantly higher than the present plants this will also help to reduce land area which is required for the solar set up. Scientific challenges involved in this process also include schemes to convert the solar energy and then store the energy in the form of chemical bonds. Spaced-based solar energy is also one new invention from which energy will be converted and send back to earth from space all these new methods are in its initial stages and expected to grow.

Conclusion

Technology has changed the structure of the world and technology is having its say in everything may it be weapons, transportation or energy. Global energy crisis report has now been given a serious dent thanks to technology. Wind, solar and hydro technology is becoming common day by day and these are the most efficient and environmental friendly way to produce energy. The future looks bright and more discoveries are expected as the main focus of engineers and researchers is on energy production. New methods of production have eased off the pressure on countries that were dependent on other countries for energy.

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