People have their own ideas about whether renewable sources of energy will soon replace fossil fuels or not. Some people may think that sources such as solar and wind will become main energy sources soon. In my opinion, however, people will use fossil fuels until they cannot find these sources of energy : there are still lots of fossile fuels on earth and people should pay much money to replace the fossile fuels to the renewable sources.
First, people can use fossile fuels untill these sources are vanished. It is generally agreed that fossil fuels are still below the ground and there are a lot of attemps to find the energy sources. Therefore, people do not need the new sources of energy to replace the fossile fuels. For example, lots of amount of coal, the most popular resource, exists on earth and people can use this energy source for 100 years or more. In this way, people will use fossil fuels untill these resources are run out.
Second, when it comes to money, renewable resources have some disadvantages to use. Some people might say that becouse renewable resources are permanent, people will get advantages when they use these sources of energy. However, people should spend much money at first and they cannot get the benefits back quickly. For instance, although people construct the solar energy system using lots of money, the output energy from that system is relatively small. If people pay the same amount of money to get fossil fuels, they could gain lots of profits from them. therefore, we can say that using fossil fuels is more efficient than using renewable resources.
To sum up, fossil fuels have lots of benefits than new sources of energy in that we can still find fossil fuels on earth and we can also save money. All things considered, I can definitely say that renewable sources of energy cannot replace the fossil fuels soon. |