Renewables vs. Nuclear & Fossil Fuels | from the @solarpower movement 🌞

solarpower (35)in #news • 7 years ago

“We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don’t have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.”

– Elon Musk, Founder of Tesla Motors, Space X and Solar City

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Renewables vs. Nuclear

For the first time since Reagan was president and had removed the solar panels that President Carter had installed on the White house, renewable energy has surpassed nuclear energy generation. ✌

According the Energy Information Administration (EIA), wind and solar farms (utility-scale farms only excluding distributed solar) as well as hydroelectric plants have set a record energy generation in recent months.

Nasty Fuels

Energy generation from fossil fuels represents about 65%: which corresponds to megatons of polluting greenhouse gas emissions that are having immense negative impacts on the atmosphere, the oceans and Earth's entire ecosystem. Nuclear energy capacity has been relatively stable for decades, supplying base load energy. Although nuclear fission provides lots of energy, we have not yet figured out a way to effectively deal with the nuclear waste over large periods of time without allowing any radioactive leaks and contamination. ☢

Clean Solar

As the solar market grows, perhaps it would be wise to invest in solar stocks and as the prices drop, perhaps it would be wise to consume solar energy yourself. More than sixty percent of power generation installed in 2016 was from solar technologies, according to the EIA. Although hydroelectricity still represents a large portion of renewables, the solar industry has been rising at an incredible rate. 📈

The End of Nuclear Fission

The last nuclear plant that was installed in the last 20 years in Tennessee (the Valley Authority’s Watts Bar 2) was shut down after 5 months of operation due to a malfunction. Who know what disasters that would have caused if radioactive elements contaminated the Tennessee river? Statistically speaking, not so good and let’s not get started with what’s going on in Fukushima. Nuclear fission is very messy. ☣

Nuclear Fusion?

Nuclear fusion on the other hand, would be way better as the only by-product of hydrogen fusion would be helium and we could use it to inflate party balloons! Feasible nuclear fusion is yet to be discovered. Until then, there is an enormous fusion reaction going on in the sun right now and it is radiating enormous amounts of energy towards us for free: enough energy to create wind, waves and life. 🌼

Let’s tap into clean solar. Enough digging into the earth for finite resources life fossil fuels and nuclear fuels, it is not sustainable. Solar, wind, hydro and geothermal are the solution, especially solar.🌞

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