Advantages Of Alternative Energy

Energy is a force or work that a physical system is capable of doing in changing from its actual state or form into a different state or form. We use energy in our everyday lives, and people all over the world, big or small, have a use of energy. People, who own a car, have a house, work in a place with light other than fire and sunlight use energy. Even electronics, appliances, hot water, heating or cooling systems use energy. Most of the resources we use for these things are often times harmful to the environment and very expensive because of the nonrenewable aspects many of them possess. There is, however, a solution called alternative energy. Alternative energy is an energy source that’s an alternative to fossil fuels, or nonrenewable resources.

Wind power is beneficial in many ways it produces a clean form of energy that saves our valuable fossil fuels. Wind power is even healthier for us, because this type of alternative energy does not produce harmful chemicals into the air which can mix with rain that is a part of our water supply and it decreases the amount of acid rain we have, so we can breathe cleaner air and drink clean water. In the state of Missouri wind power that is used for electricity only cost the user of this energy about 6 or 7 cents. However the price isn’t this low in every state in the United States. “The energy used to build a wind farm is produced by that farm within four to six months. After that, the energy it produces is free.” (Oxlade) According to Tony Zamberlan the state of California and other places with a larger population have the price of 10 to 15 cents a KWH. “Wind is a fuel, and it’s free.” (Hosansky) In the United States alone wind power has created 85,00 jobs and 400 manufacturing plants. Wind power is one of the fastest growing manufacturing sectors. It is a large possibility that wind power could produce thirty percent of the world energy within the next fifteen years. The turbines don’t even have to be put on the land we need right now. Wind turbines can be build out at sea. Wind power is even made on demand. Many of this is debatable in some parts of the world. In parts of the world where it isn’t as windy as Chicago or some places in Missouri energy from wind power is more expensive than energy from fossil fuel power stations. According to David Hosansky in 2007 it was reported that wind power cost $23.37 per megawatt hour nuclear energy at this time was $1.59 coal was $.44 and natural gas was a quarter. This alternative energy is also not consistent, if the wind doesn’t blow the turbines can’t create energy making this an unreliable source of energy. Wind turbines are known as a mature technology yet they