Thursday 15 September 2016

Nuclear power could be the best option for energy

Sustainable green energy should replace the fossil fuel energy, as it is environmentally friendly and we do not need to worry about what will be the alternative when the energy is running out. However, sometimes in my opinion, green energy still has a long path to go. There are three main types of green energy, solar energy, wind power and hydroelectric energy. The advantages of these three types of energy are so obvious that I do not think I need to explain them, as they are already our common sense, the disadvantages are also obvious.

The disadvantage that these three types of green energy share is they all require typical geographical requirements that they do not meet all countries' requirement for energy. In additional, the wind power and solar energy have a lot of room to improve their energy generation efficiency. Moreover, to generate the satisfied amount of energy, the power stations that use these two types of energy sometimes require to be located in some tourist areas, such as seacoast and desert. These disadvantages, such as strict geographical requirements and technological weakness, limit the scale and the use of these types of green energy.

While the use of the green energy is limited and we need to replace the fossil fuel, I think nuclear power could be the alternative to the green energy and the fossil fuels. Firstly, in some ways, it could be described as sustainable energy, as the nuclear fuel could be used to generate energy up to around a hundred year. Secondly, it is powerful enough to meet the demand for energy of the current society and has very limited requirement. In fact, almost all countries have the abilities to build nuclear power stations. The problem of nuclear power is how to dump the nuclear waste, which is something we still have some time to improve our technology to deal with.

To conclude, I expect in the future, nuclear power could be widely for home energy supply and the green energy may not be used as widely as nuclear power. In a longer term, I still expect the solar energy will be the main source of energy, as it does not necessarily require a power station and is more mobile.

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