Why is renewable energy preferable?

The strategy is to replace fossil fuel (oil, natural gas, coal) as our energy source. For one thing fossil fuel is a limited resource - even if it takes a thousand years. read more

Hopefully using renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, etc) can give humans better control over what is a tenable future. Even tho the emphasis is put on the concept of ‘renewable’ energy, there is a significant industrial affect to the fabrication of for example, solar panels and wind turbines. read more

Workers install equipment for an ocean thermal energy conversion experiment in 1994 at Hawaii's Natural Energy Laboratory. Credit: A. Resnick, Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. read more