Why can’t climate change be solved through the wind and
solar energy technologies established today?
An article on the FoxNews.com has
information on scientific issue about the effects of renewable energy on
climate change. The topic came about when two Google engineers, from the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, decided to find the facts behind
renewable energy. They conducted a project that would determine such effects
and they called the project “RE<C.”
Before the project began, the engineers
had high hopes for the results of their project. In a report they released the
engineers stated, “At the start of RE<C, we had shared the attitude of many
stalwart environmentalists: We felt that with steady improvements to
today’s renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic
climate change. We now know that to be a false hope.” Renewable energy has been
known as a sort of gateway for the world to diminish the affects of climate
change. With the results of this project the thought of creating green energy
has merely been seen as an “overhyped” and “emotional dream.”
Now in the main aspects of the
project, the engineers created a best-case scenario for the world if they were
to switch to alternative uses of energy immediately. According to the
engineers, the conclusion of the project was determined to be a failure because
there would be no way to divert from climate change. A spokesman from Google
has reiterated also that the conclusion of the project was not meant to
antagonize or dissuade the world from using solar and wind energy.
In addition
to the project done by the Google engineers, Dr. John P. Abraham, a professor
of thermal and fluid sciences at the University of St. Thomas, told FoxNews.com
that the project was a good start for the engineers. They were able to
determine that the solar and wind energy were simply substitutes for energy and
not alternatives. He also added that because renewable energy sources are
substitutes there are many different parts to the energy crisis, but the use of
solar energy and its costs today are “staggering.” A spokesman from Google also
agrees that this is one of the first steps to figuring out different approaches
to creating and fixing the climate change problem. It is a good progressing to
creating a better energy saving industry.
Later in a
statement, engineers wrote that “our society needs to fund scientists and
engineers to propose and test new ideas, fail quickly, and share what they
learn.” This means not just throwing money at projects and hoping they will fly
off. This means investing in those who are ambitious and have a dream of
something great. We need the help of such innovators to take their wildest
imagination and try to make it a reality. At this point in the world we need
help by those who think about the impossible scenarios. We need to help make
the impossible possible because that is what may create a global salvation.
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