Since people discovered fire, our main energy source has come from the burning carbon – first wood, then coal, oil and gas. However, this method creates pollution and has heated the earth, which leads to extreme weather incidents worldwide and rising oceans. Old dirty energy is finally in nature, and the difficulty of extracting more means that the costs are continuously increasing.
In the meantime, solar and wind power are the cheapest energy sources on the planet. As the author Bill McKibben states with renewable energies: “Instead of being dependent on some places on Earth, which contain concentrations of fossil fuels, we have an entire planet that can lead from things that has it close to the hand because every sun has and every wind has.” In fact, the development world builds up solar and wind power faster than the industrialized countries.
Some say solar and wind are not reliable because the sun does not seem to seem at night and the wind does not always blow. But batteries to store this clean energy and supply our lives overnight also become cheaper and safer.
If you believe that solar and wind for whales and birds or the reason for your bills are bad, it is probably because you have received propaganda and lies from the fossil fuel industry that this disinformation has occurred since the 1970s. Have you ever seen the effects of an oil spill or a natural gas leak? Oil panels on the horizon are much uglier than our wind turbines. The biggest problem with solar and wind energy is actually that it is to cheap. Exxon's CEO said last year that its company will not invest in renewable energies because they do not achieve “above -average returns” for investors.
Obviously, the future is endangered by large solar and wind power projects for political reasons here in the United States. In other parts of the world, the deregulation has to implement domestic solar projects more easily. In Germany, for example, 1.5 million homeowners have set up balcony/deck solar, which is currently only legal in Utah in the USA. That should change! We all earn energy independence and energy freedom!
If you love renewable energies, this Sunday, September 21, you can celebrate Sun Day, a nationwide celebration with clean renewable energies. You can find events on Sunday. New Bedford has listed two events, including a bike tour from Fort to Fort. Accompany us!
Laura Gardner lives in Fairhaven and is Green Sanctuary Chair of the Unitariian Universalist Society of Fairhaven.
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