At present, we don't have to burn fossil fuels.
We don't have to use anything that would contaminate the environment.
There are many sources of energy available.
-Alternative energy solutions pushed by the establishment
such as hydrogen, biomass and even nuclear
are highly insufficient, dangerous and exist only
to perpetuate the profit-structure that industry has created.
When we look beyond the propaganda and self-serving solutions
put forth by the energy companies,
we find a seemingly endless stream
of clean, abundant and renewable energy for generating power.
Solar and wind energy are well known to the public,
but the true potential of these mediums remains unexpressed.
Solar energy, derived from the sun,
has such abundance that one hour of light at high noon
contains more energy than what the entire world consumes in a year.
If we could capture 1/100th of a percent of this energy,
the world would never have to use oil, gas or anything else.
The question then, is not availability,
but the technology to harness it.
And there are many advanced mediums today
which could accomplish just that
if they were not hindered by the need to compete for market share
with the established energy power structures.
Then there's wind energy.
Wind energy has long been denounced as weak,
and due to being location driven impractical.
This is simply not true.
The US Department of Energy admitted in 2007
that if wind was fully harvested in just three of America's 50 states,
it could power the entire nation.
And then there are the rather unknown mediums
of tidal and wave power.
Tidal power is derived from tidal shifts in the ocean.
Installing turbines which capture this movement generates energy.
In the United Kingdom, 42 sites are currently noted as available
forecasting that 34% of all the UK's energy
could come from tidal power alone.
Wave power, which extracts energy
from the surface motions of the ocean,
is estimated to have a global potential
of up to 80,000 terawatt-hours a year.
This means 50% of the entire planet's energy usage
could be produced from this medium alone.
Now, it is important to point out that
tidal, wave, solar and wind power
requires virtually no preliminary energy to harness
unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass, hydrogen and all the others.
In combination, these four mediums alone,
if efficiently harnessed through technology,
could power the world forever.
That being said, there happens to be another form
of clean renewable energy, which trumps them all.
Geothermal power.
Geothermal energy utilizes what is called "heat mining,"
which, through a simple process using water,
is able to generate massive amounts of clean energy.
In 2006, an MIT report on geothermal energy
found that 13,000 ZJ of power are currently available in the earth
with the possibility of 2,000 ZJ being easily tappable
with improved technology.
The total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet
is about half of a ZJ a year.
This means about 4000 years of planetary power
could be harnessed in this medium alone.
And when we understand that the earth's heat generation
is constantly renewed, this energy is really limitless.
It could be used forever.
These energy sources are only a few
of the clean renewable mediums available,
and as time goes on, we will find more.
The grand realization is that we have total energy abundance
without the need for pollution,
traditional conservation or, in fact, a price tag.