energy crisis and it's causes
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The energy crisis stems from the foreseeable end of the cycle of oil, gas and coal, which, in addition, have been producing a considerable increase in greenhouse gases (GHG).
In recent years, many scientists have raised their voice to warn about climate change, caused notably by the burning of oil and coal in order to produce energy.
Global energy consumption is increasing and we will face a shortage of fossil fuels in the coming decades. Therefore, the availability of reserves is an important source of concern.
Around 1900, the world was actually going solar and wind, hard to believe, but there were working industrial scale solar and wind system back then. They had hydro, electric cars and waste to fuels as well. That combination has free fuel for a billion years, and we would never have had an energy crisis.
But cheap fossils were pushed instead and the pollution ignored. The world population was was only about 1.5 billion, so the existing fossils desperation would not have happened for 600 years instead of now. Now with over 7 billion people and the use per person of energy many times the old days, we are out of the easy fossils and into the “tertiary” deposits that take more money and energy to extract. They have a much lower energy gain, and are far more polluting, like tar sands and fracking. We are in the neighborhood of peak oil and gas. The pollution is also far worse, and we have the science to realize we are killing millions of people per year from fossils burning. Fossils burning is changing the climate so rapidly the ecosystems will die back and natural disasters will cause more damage and death. Meanwhile we go to war for oil and gas. That’s how desperate we are.
We could have switched to renewable by now, but the fossil industry propagandized the world and bought politicians to get more and more gov breaks, now amounting to 5.3T$ per year. They put up legal barriers to renewable energy.
The good news is that for the last 30 years or so, solar and wind have been doubling every 2 and 4 years. For the last 5 years or so, solar pv has been the majority of new power installed. Wind plus solar has been the majority of new power installed for around 10 years. Solar and wind is now over a TWpeak (including solar heating). In about 14 years, solar pv and wind will be generating more power than the entire world demand. Solar and wind are cheapest available energy on earth now: about 2 cents per KWH before gov breaks.
Now we have fantastic EV’s better than fossil cars.
Waste to hydrocarbons tech is far more advanced that 100 years ago.
We have all the tech we need to go 100% renewable in 14 years and end the energy crisis forever (a billion years).
In summary it may be concluded that renewable energy may implicate higher installation cost than fossil fuels but keeping in mind the alleviating environmental standards, renewable energy does not only seem a pragmatic solution but also gateway to balanced energy mix. With exceedingly surging demands in next three decades, limited supply of energy would only bring economic demise enclosed with regional conflicts. Therefore, it is high time to search for clean and recycled form of energy to recuperate the global energy emporium.
There is a strain on fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal due to overconsumption – which then in turn can put a strain on our water and oxygen resources by causing pollution. 2. Overpopulation: Another cause of the crisis has been the steady increase in the world's population and its demands for fuel and products.