Renewable Energy is the Winner

In our everyday life, change is inevitable and is something that happens every day. Technology is always constantly being upgraded, cars are always being modified and some of our hobbies or things we do in our everyday life change. In the 1930’s and 40’s during the great depression this event made people go through a transition from throwing everything away to recycling things. Recycling helped many people survive since they couldn’t afford new things and most important it helped the environment and the economy. For the betterment of the economy and environment another transition is currently going and that is using renewable energy over non-renewable energy.

Many organizations are noticing that the current use of non-renewable sources are harming the environment, people’s health and are also afraid that they will use up all the resources. Statistics, polls and events suggest that renewable energy is constantly being used and that it will be frequently used in the future.

• ·        In the New York time an article called “SunEdison and TerraForm Buy First Wind, Gaining a Toehold in Turbines” states that these two companies bought a wind power business for $2.4 billion. SunEdison is a company that creates components to store solar energy, and with the acquisition of the wind farms SunEdison is considered the world’s largest renewable energy development company. SunEdison is a company that had been growing at 90 percent a year since 2009, and now they are predicting that they will be able to produce energy to supply more than 425,000 homes each year.
• ·         Another article called “USDA Funds Renewable Energy” mentions that the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $68 million in 540 renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects nation-wide. The program believes that renewable energy is the best route and the most beneficial to society. Their prediction is that it will reduce America’s energy consumption and decrease carbon pollution while saving agribusiness about 45 billion dollars on their energy bills.
• ·         The last article is called “S.F. clean energy program could generate 8,100 jobs” and this claims that a renewable energy program in San Francisco could create thousands of jobs by constructing $2.4 billion worth of proposed solar and wind projects. This new project has the support of many in people in San Francisco and would allow the city to generate or purchase its own clean energy and deliver it to consumers through companies.

Renewable energy is a transition that will bring many benefits to climate, people’s health and the economy. Non-renewable energy are cheap but bring a lot of negative aspects to it like it releases global warming emissions and eventually the process will get more expensive because  non-renewable resources will decrease and some day they will depleted, were they cannot be replaced. This transition has helped scientist and engineers to build technologies like dams, wind turbines and photovoltaic devices (PV). Some people would ask isn’t expensive to create these technologies? And the answer is yes but in the long run it will save people a ton of money because electricity bills will be incredibly cheap or even free and less money will be wasted on utilities.

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Benefits of Renewable Energy Use. Union of Concerned Scientist. Retrieved from:http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energy-choices/renewable-energy/public-benefits-of-renewable.html#.VEjPC_nF8XQ

CardWell, Diane. SunEdison and TerraForm Buy first Wind, Gaining a Toehold in Turbines. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/sunedison-and-terraform-to-buy-first-wind-for-2-4-billion-in-renewable-energy-deal/?_r=0

USDA Funds Renewabel Energy.The News. Retrieved from: http://www.achrnews.com/articles/128093-usda-funds-renewable-energy

Lagos, Marisa. S.F. clean energy program could generate 8,100 jobs, report says. SFGATE. Retrieved from: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/S-F-clean-energy-program-could-generate-8-100-5897392.php

Grabianowski, Ed. How recycling Works. Retrieved from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/recycling1.htm