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Our Earth has been very generous with all the renewable sources of energy in so many different forms. So many corners of the planet have been fortunate to have used renewable power when mechanical electricity, powered by petroleum wasn’t readily available.

We must seek to develop, store and generate the earth’s current form into usable power for our needs. Even though the wind, sun, and even the earth itself will never stop providing us the energy we desire. As our fossil fuel continues to be depleted, we seek with urgency to find a way to transition into alternative energy sources.

To transform these forms of energy into alternative energy is not really difficult. It has been actually utilized and done by people centuries ago. The fossil fuels were developed and turned into gas, diesel, and petroleum blends that are useful and needed nowadays. The problem is the costs it will take to do this kind of process.

It may be unfamiliar to all of us but this kind of transitioning energy is what the world needs today in order to preserve and protect the world from the worsening condition of global warming.

This transitioning is very useful and helpful to all of us. An example of this useful alternative energy is the solar power. Solar power can be generated into electricity, which is needed everywhere but is very expensive. By using solar electricity, people do not need to pay for electricity power since solar comes from the sun. But one thing that limits the development of this is the costs involved in making the necessary equipments to be able to convert the solar energy into electricity. This is what all of us should ponder and decide on.

Michael Faraday, a British scientist discovered electricity back in the 1800’s. Electricity was the same then as it is today. With even different methods of changing energy into electrical energy, the most common is the induction electromagnetic. That is when kinetic energy is transformed into electricity. To just put the basics of electricity to work for us in a different way will take a bit of training, skills, and education.

When it comes to solar power, the photovoltaic technology is the most popular and fast growing. But since the solar panels for photovoltaic technology is very expensive, only few were able to afford its price and maintenance. This PV solar panel is known to have been used in rich countries like Japan, Germany, and some states in USA like California and New Jersey. If other countries will develop this technology into market which everyone can afford, then, within the next few years, the solar power will be available to places where it is more practical than using petroleum fuels.

Learning new methods or techniques to develop this energy into renewable fuels is possible. Students of this generation are being taught in school to be aware of the depleting condition of the mother earth because of the global warming. Perhaps some of them would be trained to help in the development of new methods and equipments to be used for transitioning the energy from the sun, the wind, and the earth into alternative energy that are not harmful to the environment. This will make a great improvement for the planet we all live in.