About The Future of Renewable Energy Research Assignment

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Future of Renewable Energy
Food, water and shelter are the three basic elements for the survival of human in this world. However, energy has been included in these basic elements to ensure smooth survival of man on Earth. The world energy development and transitions are entering a new era where clean and low-carbon energy has become inevitable. The revolutions of gas and oil in the United States of America made it realize its objective of “energy Independence” for 40-years. In 2008, USA proposed a new strategy of rebuilding America with “green energy”, which provided a revolutionary phase in the oil and gas. The oil and gas revolutions in the United States of America changed the global energy exerting a significant impact on the global economic and political development. Governments across the world have proposed a new energy strategy aimed at promoting the supply and consumption of energy. This strategy is also aimed at promoting technological advancements in the energy sector to drive industry development as well the energy system. This paper is aimed at summarizing the general trends of energy developments by reviewing its history and provide a future of the renewable energy.
Some of the most intriguing and challenging questions anyone can ever ask are “where are we coming from and where are we going?” These questions tend to be more challenging if one poses a third question like “why are we here?” No one can claim to have answers to these questions, but reading through some of the history of humans can provide some insights into the past and future. The book Energy and Civilization integrates the historical and technological evolutions to explain as well as pose a challenge to almost everything. Having a journey to the past, Vaclav Smil digs into the factors that shaped the human creativity and provides insights into what can be done to influence the future. Having said that, Vaclav attempts to paint a picture of how the future will be like. Therefore, by looking into the past, we may be able to grasp a glimpse of the future. By visiting the past, we can confidently say that economic growth is dependent on energy and raw materials which are finite. However, a detailed analysis of the human history, it is evident that the finiteness of energy and resources is theoretical. On the other hand, while the usage of energy and raw materials throughout the human history has been evolving and increased in the past two centuries, the available amounts have almost doubled.
The source of energy originated from the discovery of fire as a heat. As time went by, it was discovered that fire under a kettle produces steam which can be converted into energy. Looking at the human history from that perspective, one can argue that although resources appear to be finite, human ingenuity is infinite. It is no secret that this is the situation that global energy producers find themselves in.
PART ONE
Energy Transitions
The historical industrial civilization has been characterized by energy transitions. During the early days, when areas such as the agrarian economies were less developed, people depended on simple forms of agriculture to get their basic needs. ...