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This week, the main learning topic was renewable and non-renewable energy. It turns out, that energy is a very important thing in all of our lives, but it isn’t always produced in the best ways.
Renewable energy is energy that’s source doesn’t run out. At one stage during the week, Neil noticed that renewable is an extremely self-explanatory word I also realised this about a day earlier, but failed to mention this to him). Looking at the word, renewable energy has the ability to be new over and over again. Exciting stuff.
I think that Australia needs more renewable energy. If Australia could find a way of relying on Ethanol, Geothermal Energy and Solar Power, our emissions would plummet. But, these three energy sources may not produce enough to power Australia. So we need another alternative. Nuclear Power is often thought of as an ecological nightmare. But, with the new technology, and new ways to build cheaper plants, it could be the answer. By new technology, I mean the idea (that has been shown to work) of putting the nuclear waste into graphite balls, which can be buried, or stored, without leaking waste. The cheaper alternative is simply assembling the parts of the plants in factories, then putting the together at the site, like a giant, nuclear Lego set. Genius.
If Australia is to become more ecologically friendly, we need to put things like these into action. But how? The government could start building the plants, funding Ethanol production, encouraging the use of more solar panels, make solar energy more of an option for people and enforce geothermal energy. But are the people going to tag along with this? Would the government do this? Citizens are more likely to approve and enforce something they come up with, like a bottom up solution. If the people could make, purchase and apply more solar panels and energy, farm more sugar cane to make more Ethanol and push for ‘clean’ Nuclear Plants, we would be on our way to a future with some sort of an eco system.
You can do better, environmentalists!!
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