and it has become a crucial part of all of our lives. This electricity is made
in a way that can harm our environment, not to mention ourselves. It is made by
combusting fossil fuels, which have several problems that will be stated. In the
recent years, engineers found more environmentally friendly ways of producing
electricity, but there is one main problem—the price. Many people wonder, “Is it
worth paying thousands of dollars to install an environmentally friendly way of
producing power?” Many people would invest in this and others wouldn’t. In my
opinion, I think that it is worth paying for these clean ways of producing
power.
My first reasoning is that you can make this into a long-term
investment. You do have to pay thousands of dollars, but eventually, you will be
producing free electricity, and then you will be earning money. Also if you
produce large amounts of power, the government can purchase some to distribute
in neighbourhoods, using special grids that control how much is coming in from
your source, and how much goes out to the government, who purchased it from you.
Also, if you go down 401, you will see hundreds of wind turbines, extending to
as far as your eyes can see.
My second reasoning is that it is risk free, and it has no
harmful effects on plants, animals, and us. The main way that people produce
electricity nowadays is by combusting fossil fuels (mainly coal), and that
poses several problems, which include:
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1.The more fossil fuels we
combust, the more pollution there is, and pollutions not only harms the
environment, but it can also lead to cancer, because of breathing the filthy,
polluted air.
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2.The fossil fuels that we are
combusting are running out and at the rate that we keep using them, all fossil
fuels will be diminished in a few decades.
Another way of producing electricity is a clean way which is
nuclear power. Some problems here include:
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1.If any natural disaster
occurs (take Japan for an instance), the nuclear radiation is very likely to spread, and this poses a serious
risk of getting cancer.
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2.To operate a nuclear power
plant, you need to be near a river or lake, so you can dump all the hot water
that has already been used, and that can kill many ecosystems that are in that
lake/river.
My third and final reasoning is that the fossil fuels that we are
using are harming us, but if we use renewable sources of energy, we can save our
generation and we can make our society one that flows with nature, and not
against it. We can use the water that flows downstream, or near a waterfall to
produce enormous amounts of electricity. We can also use solar energy, as they
are probably what most people would think of getting if they were thinking of
installing anything for their home. As all of you already know, solar energy
comes from the sun, and you can produce large amounts of electricity, depending
on how many solar panels you have, or how big the solar panel is. In many
places, such as Ontario, people are literally making farms, but instead of
crops, there have hundreds of solar panels installed, and as I mentioned
before, along the 401, there are as many wind turbines as the eye can see.
There are many things that can be improved in these methods of
producing the power to run things that require electricity, but there are many
good things like not even having to worry about a storm knocking out your power,
because you would normally have a big generator where the power gets stored.
Besides, we should always remember that we are helping to save the earth and
help it recover from all the pollution that we have caused, not to mentions
decreasing the amount of people getting cancer in crowded cities like Toronto,
or Detroit. No matter what things might be inefficient, it will always be better
than our ways of generating electricity today. So to answer the big question, I
think that purchasing and installing a renewable source of energy is worth every
single penny you pay, because you are helping save the earth, and you can
consider it as a long-term investment. LET’S STAND AND MAKE A CHANGE! :D
-Emad