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[duptyfied]

With fossil fuel rising in price by the day, the tremendous pollution that comes with it and related environmental concerns, it is time that the world invest more in alternative means of energy than fossil fuel.

Here are a few ideas:

• With the human population growing in number, what you are left is feeding more people more food but that food mostly reaches those who already have plenty. As there already is medication that makes a person pass his fat as stools, why can’t this be used as a source of oil? At-least this way the fat people will lose weight which they will like and that oil can be used as some source of energy. The world population is about 7 billion of which 65% is overweight or obese, which will be a lot of oil.
• Neutrinos: These are electrically neutral particles origination mostly from the Sun’s nuclear activity. These are so much in plenty that 65 billion pass through an area as big as a man’s thumbnail per second. Since these particles are electrically neutral, they pass greater distances through solid objects. If we could harness this energy then this energy would power the whole world inexhaustibly while still giving us clean energy.
• Thunder and lightning are also huge power sources, why can we use them too or generate environments where we can use them

[Ahsaniqbal111]

I think the sources you mentioned need a lot of research to be used on a commercial scale. On the other hand, you have forgotten the most talked about energy source these days: the solar energy. I think there is reasonable research going on in this field, and we see many applications of this form of energy in our daily lives. What we need to make sure is that we should put more efforts in increasing its efficiency and application so that it can be used on a commercial scale and some day, it would be able to replace the energy coming from fossil fuels.
From one point of view, making good use of the solar energy is of survival value for human population as we all know that fossil fuels are not going to last forever. Some day, we have to live without them, and then the most reliable source of energy, at least in some parts of the world will be the solar energy. So concentrating our efforts in this form of energy would mean that we want to survive even after fossil fuels are gone.

[duptyfied]

Yeah: Solar energy, hydro and winds energy etc. are good alternatives to fossil fuel which are already in use and being developed even further but I feel it is good to venture and look into less traditional means and explore their viability.

[Ananya]

Alternative source of energy is the utmost need of the hour.With oil prices steeply rising and along with that inflation soaring high as a monster we can easily figure it out that how much it is a big concern for us to seek an alternative source of energy.Had there been a day when we would have found out something that could have well fit into the bail as a substitute of a scarce and tremendously sought after resource like that of oil we would have been able to control inflation.The most widely and extensively available resource in our earth is water.80% of our earth is covered with water.The day we can harness the hydrogen in water and utilize it as fuel we will be able to get ourselves free from the hassles of depending on oil to drive automobiles.Researches for utilizing water to run vehicles is going on but the day we can use it as a full fledged fuel environmental pollution can be prevented and definitely it will create a vast impact on lowering down all commodity prices.The perennial sources of energy are all pollution free and are something on which our next generation can really rely on for decades to come without worrying much about their exhaustion.

Edited by Ananya, 26 May 2012 - 12:17 PM.

[yordan]

.The perennial sources of energy are all pollution free and are something on which our next generation can really rely on for decades to come without worrying much about their exhaustion.

What do you mean by this sentence? What are the perennial sources you are talking about?
Hydrogen can easily be extracted from water in nuclear plants, but this is the worst pollution we can imagine, destroying a region during hundred of years.