ource, Oil will start to get harder and harder to find. The oil will be expensive to find and expensive to buy. Present day sources of oil will be gone in a little over 60 years (Discovery channel, Beyond 2000). Coal is already practically gone, They don’t use it because it costs too much to mine and doesn’t produce enough energy to make up for the price paid to mine. Natural gas is clean and efficient. Right now there is a lot of natural gas, but it still is not renewable. That isn’t enough to produce the energy made by oil or nuclear energy. Examples of energy alternatives , such as wind mills have been around for centuries. In the 1600’s and 1700’s wind mills were used to pump water and crush grain. At the end of the 1800’s , 6 million farms has windmills ( keeler, 69). Now today’s windmills don’t pump water or crush grain, they spin turbines. Ever since the oil embargo in the 70’s people have been looking for energy alternatives. Wind power is very efficient and clean. It doesn’t pollute at all (Keeler , 69 ). Since technology keeps getting better, wind power gets better also. Now the most modern wind mill can generate 2500 kilowatts of energy at speeds of 45 miles an hour ( Keeler ,69). If wind get too high the wind mill shuts down automatically. Solar energy is another non polluting energy alernative. Solar energy is collected by the sun from photovallic panels ( Keeler ,69). There are many test sites for solar panels. But they are located on the desert. The electric car is the most popular energy altenative. They have started appearing in california and some other states. Electric cars have gbeen around since 1908 Studabaker automobiles produced the first electric car ( New York Times p. 5bt ), but the car died out because gas powered cars could go faster and farther that the electric car. Now electric cars can go over 60 miles an hour ...
