Renewable energy to produce electricity.?

Question

I think this would be more viable if it were less expensive. How do you think, the expense could be reduced?

Answer 1

Currently in Florida, there are grants and rebate program from the government to encourage people and businesses to use renewable energy. This is a good step towards increasing the demand for renewable energy products like solar panels and such.

Answer 2

The ultimate problem with ground based solar and wind is that the power just isn't reliable so you need a backup power source for the night or when the wind isn't blowing.

Right now the power is usually just backed up with fossil fuels which emit a lot of CO2 because we haven't solved the problem of large scale storage of electricity (so at the moment we can't just store the excess power generated off-peak and then use that when the generators don't have power).

Putting the solar panels in space and beaming the power down using microwaves would be a good way of solving the problem (that way the solar panels would be in sunlight pretty much all the time (they'd be eclipsed at night during the equinoxes for a bit more than an hour but power usage is lower at night so that shouldn't be too hard to deal with)).

Hydro-power and Geothermal power have problems with there being a limited site selection that can be used for them with most of the good hydro sites already in use (and the others part of national parks and not available for building a power station on) so the ultimate potential of those technologies is low although where they can be used they can be pretty good.

Biomass is a widely used 'renewable' resource but it does have air quality implications and also requires that we grow our fuel when we could be using that land to grow food (or convert it back into forests as our agriculture gets better).

The nuclear option is also worth considering, with breeder reactors and a closed fuel cycle we should have enough Uranium and Thorium for billions of years at our current energy usage (the reason breeders haven't had much commercial success is because Uranium is so cheap) and when we can get fusion to work we'll have something that will last even longer.

Answer 3

Hydroelectric energy is both renewable and the cheapest there is. The first large electricity generating station, at Niagara Falls, was hydroelectric. Oh, there were smaller ones built earlier using coal or whatever, but that was the first really big one. But now we have dams and power plants at all locations where there is enough water falling a large enough distance, and all those do not come close to supplying enough power for us, so we have numerous big coal, oil and gas plants operating now. The problem is NOT making clean energy, the problem is making ENOUGH clean energy.

Answer 4

Oil and coal will be getting more expensive in the future while renewable energy sources will become cheaper. Uranium will not last forever either. So eventually everyone will use renewable energy.

Answer 5

NO. lines slump because that's at the same time as there is an additional of capacity. The juice going from the large production plant to sub stations is carried on huge lines to address that capacity. at the same time as that a lot capacity comes in the course of the little lines, like on your community it tears them up. With a unique grid, certain. Consolidating the production on the flowers would artwork too, yet having it come off the grid gives you huge complications. That article somewhat a lot explains all of it.

Answer 6

The thing about renewable energy is just that its renewable. After some time it will have paid for itself and still be producing. We just need to keep building them. It will be strength in numbers.

Answer 7

The global warming hype has caused the robbers to come out to robe us. The fossil fuels are renewable also. The plants recycle our air and start the process to recycle our fossil fuels. Photosynthesis does so much for us.

Answer 8

mass production and government support, right creating the infrastucture right now is incredibly expensive so prices are still higher, but the best way is by more support from more people doing their part

Answer 9

solar panels , check out wind turbines . ca, they have a good selection and are the cheapest in the world and they have a lot of good info on these products

Answer 10

create more efficient power collectors.