Oil gut, low prices and the increasing use of energy are in stark contrast to efforts to control and reduce carbon dioxide emissions to try to moderate destabilization of the weather machine. Over-optimistic assessment of the potential for renewable energy and disaffection with nuclear energy will dash hopes of reducing carbon dioxide emissions unless fiscal instruments such as carbon taxes are introduced and society’s attitude to conspicuous attitude reversed. Scientists affirm that, by the middle of the next century oil, and probably gas, will be running into short supply and reducing carbon dioxide emissions will have become a stark necessity. “Clean energy”, that is a mix of renewable and nuclear energy will become way ahead.
For this topic, one of the examples that I found worth mentioning was China’s. In fact, the country is today the world’s largest consumer of energy; it has a coal industry with an annual output surpassing half a billion tons of raw fuel, a rapidly expanding hydrocarbon recovery program, and an extensive program of water power utilization. A quantitative analysis of major rural energy flows in the People’s Republic of China shows that the nations’ countryside still depends predominantly on solar radiation transformed by green plants through photosynthesis into food, feel, fuel. and raw materials. Although a large scale modernization effort currently under wait aims to greatly increase the consumption of fossil fuels and electricity, it is argued that the country should not completely abandon its renewable rural energetics.
Another example: of course, when we find an interest on the efforts around the world on that subject, Germany comes instantaneously in mind. In fact, an article from The New York Times speaks about Germany having issues with their goal in solar energy. Families and businesses are worried about the rising cost of electricity.Newly constructed offshore wind farms churn unconnected to an energy grid still in need of expansion. And despite all the costs, carbon emissions actually rose last year as reserve coal-burning plants were fired up to close gaps in energy supplies.
“Often, I don’t go into my living room in order to save electricity,” said Olaf Taeuber, 55, who manages a fleet of vehicles for a social services provider in Berlin. “You feel the pain in your pocketbook.”
Even so, with his bill growing rapidly, he found himself seeking help last week to fend off a threat from Berlin’s main power company to cut off his electricity, in spite of his efforts to use little electricity. That is, without doubt, one of the most notable effort on the use of solar energy that I came across my researches.
Because the program has the support of German political parties across the spectrum, there has been no highly visible backlash during the current election campaign. But continuing to put the program in place and maintaining public support for it will be among Germans’ higher ups biggest challenge.