The Neolithic Er Nonrenewable Energy

The Neolithic Era, in roughly 3000 BCE, marked the discovery of fire, and since then, the world around us has changed faster than any one person can grasp. We as a society, and as a species have adapted not just genetically, but industrially, causing us to grow in population and expectation exponentially. However, with industrialization comes a need for the energy that powers factories, automobiles, and the technology the average person deems necessary for daily life. The energy resources on which we depend now are neither efficient nor renewable, and therefore we are facing a critical problem that will rise within the next century. Depletion. Therefore, we desperately require a better way to provide energy to the masses, and these methods

It is argued that by the year 2088, less than a century in the future, the amount of hydrocarbon fuels will decrease to none. First, the natural gases stored within the earth will deplete, followed by oil, and once those supplies are reduced to none, our use of coal will skyrocket like never before. This increased use will increase the rate of depreciation, leaving us with minute traces of any fossil fuels at all (“Fossil Fuel”). This may seem like a circumstance fit for the generations thousands of years in the future, but the year 2088 rings of not distant kin, but of grandchildren - only two generations. Notably, a new industrial revolution is due, one that converts the use of fossil fuels and nonrenewable natural resources into the use of much more environmentally friendly and sustainable sources of

Wind turbines can be bought at local hardware stores, however, wind energy is much more inconsistent that both solar and hydroelectric energy. Wind is caused by the movement of temperature fronts, a often uncertain and immeasurable happening. Similarly, large and tall structures like buildings and trees slow wind, decreasing the kinetic energy transferred from the wind to the wind turbines, and wind farms would need to occupy thousands of acres for the produced energy to equal in value to the cost of assembling and creating the wind turbines themselves (“Renewable Energy - Pros and Cons”). Although, the supply of wind will never decrease until the entire globe is one, unified temperature, a situation that is extremely