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By: Danny Fisher


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Alternative Power Sources have been in existence for millenniums; it has only been in the last 20 years that Alternative Power Sources have been seriously looked at as a major energy supply, Farmers, Millers and Manufacturing have been generating Alternative Power Sources for hundreds of years using wind and water power. The educated population of the World is just starting to understand that the very survival of future generations and perhaps even this generation is in great danger, and this is sparking a new interest in Alternative Power Sources.

The majority of our Energy needs are produced from Hydro Electric (dams), Carbon Based Fuels or Nuclear. With the expectation of Hydro Electric that is renewable, the other two are not and produce massive deadly toxic by-products in the form of:

1. Nuclear waste from Electric Power Plants has a 500 year half life and has already overflowed the so called secure dumping grounds, much of these depleted atomic rods are stored on the surface near to your City waiting transport to a save storage that at the moment are full.

2. Carbon Fossil Fuels in their raw state are crude oils, natural gas and coal; these are refined to some degree and used in the process of generating energy. All of these fuels give off Carbon Dioxide in the process of burning the major cause of Global warming.

3. Water dams have been used for centuries to store water (or energy) and as required releases the water at the dam head, the pressure of all the water stored behind the dam is used to create electricity, this is hydraulic power, hence the name of Hydro Electric. The water storage area destroys vast land areas and also generates micro environmental changes. Hydro Power is dependent on water supply and with the current Global Warming many of these Hydro Plants are off-line due to low water reserves.

The major supply of our hungry energy demands are from using Fossil Carbon Fuels for gasoline in our cars to electric lights in our home. Energy is so critical that Nations will go to war at the very suggestion of an energy source being interrupted. If any of the major delivery systems of energy supplies fail we have no Alternative Power Sources that can be used as replacements for the failed source. Change comes hard and the longer we delay in not using one of the pollution free Alternative Power Sources the higher the risk to our Planet and the harder the change comes.

Homes are the biggest consumers of Electricity and Electric Power is the second biggest contributor of Carbon Dioxide next to transportation. The easiest way to introduce change is to convert our homes into consuming pollution free Electricity by installing one of the Alternative Power Sources. The average cost of most Alternative Power Sources is a one-time setup cost of $400USD and is becoming much lower as new technology come into play and installations becoming simpler. Alternative Power Sources do require maintenance and the occasional upgrade; this would average less than $140 per year which is a lot less than 3 months of paying an Electric Provider. The financial saving is well worth the small effort of using Alternative Power Sources, but the real big benefit is that your home is no longer adding Carbon Dioxide Gas into the air.

Global Warming has been accelerating in the last 20 years we have all seen changes in the weather in the communities that we grew up in and live. Real Scientists have been telling Governments and anyone who would listen that Alternative Power Sources must be found and that the Planet is facing a coming crisis, most of these early squealers have been banished in a land of obscurity by so the called reputable Research Foundations with major funding from Energy Companies. To not have noticed what has been going on in the environment you would have to be a hermit living underground for the past 20 years. Every place in the world is being affected by Global Warming and the changing of our ways to using Alternative Power Sources must happen!

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Global Warming is an matter that affects all person living on Earth – a problem that each person should start taking very seriously. There are many persuasive reasons why we ought to start using Alternative Home Energy. further information can be found at this site. We must stop the CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by starting to use Alternative Power similar to the Please Rate this Article

 

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