First, I want you to take this quiz to figure out your know-how of energy.
Surprised? I was. After taking this quiz, I came across a video that teases us to learn more about energy and sustainability.
A lot of facts were thrown out in that video and I wanted to take a more in depth look at solar energy.
Solar energy is constantly talked about and I thought I would bring it up because of its positives, and also its drawbacks. Solar energy produces less than one tenth of one percent of the global energy demand. It seems that solar is the way to go- but there are disadvantages, according to National Geographic, that make it not so useful. Solar energy does not work at night without a storage device, cloudy weather makes it unreliable and it is extremely expensive to set up. At least we're thinking about alternatives...
In the meantime we will still burn all possible fossil fuels to feed the hungry beast of manufacturing.
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