Its our Environment, Take a Stand

In a time where some people believe the world is near its end, due to global warming, there are many alternative ways to create energy without harming the earth natural resources. Since the world is now more electronic and electricity is used for almost everything unlike many years ago, our planet has paid is price. As a nation, we use the most energy of any per person.
One of the best ways, I feel, is wind energy. Wind energy is a clean alternative to coal power plants, which are becoming a thing of the past. Hopefully, one day power plants will completely disappear for good. Although expensive to build and put up they would pay themselves off in just a matter of years. Becoming more common is personal wind turbines. People in rural areas, typically on ridges or places of higher elevation use these as a lone source of energy and many times have power left over to sell back to the electrical company. The money one would save on electrical bills and the money they earn by selling power would pay for the cost of the turbine and installation in just a matter of years. With just one wind turbine, approximately 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide can be displaced in just one year which is a big help for planet Earth. Saving 2,000 tons of carbon is equal to planting a square miles worth of trees. Some complain about the sound they make, but personally I wouldn’t mind a slight background sound if it meant saving loads of money and a grant from the government to construct one. Also, in this time of recession, installation and maintenance of these turbines create jobs for many people. 1000 megawatts of electricity produced by wind energy is equivalent to almost 2500 jobs.
There are many more ways of alternative energy, not just wind. Solar, geothermal, and hydrogen are excellent ways of producing clean energy. One that is close to home for me, literally is methane energy. Within the next our family plans to install a methane turbine. Being farmers we produce a lot of methane gas that grouping in our manure pit. We would collect all of the gas giving from manure and use it as a source of energy. There are many things we can do a nation and also internationally. I hope that people start to realize that we must protect of natural resources or we one day won’t have these resources to feed from.