Lots of people talk about cleaner energy like its some kind of futuristic technology that we won't have for a long time and it won't give us what we need in terms of how much energy we want. The truth is that there is almost unlimited potential in clean energy, as apposed to oil and nuclear power, which both have decidedly limited potential.

Solar energy: Solar energy is there for us every day, all around us. It will continue to surround us for quite some time. If we are able to harvest 1/100th of 1% of 1 hour at high noon, we can power the whole world for a whole year.

The question then is not availability, but technology, and there are plenty of scientists who would be willing and able to accomplish a solar harvesting system that could power the earth forever. The problem is that they have to compete in a market that is already saturated with oil.

Wind energy: People say that wind energy isn't powerful enough. This just isn't true, the U.S. Department of energy admitted that if wind was completly harvested in 3 states, it could power the entire nation.

Tidal power: You can place a generator underwater and capture the currents, there are currently more then 40 sites noted as possible for tidal power in the UK. It is for caste that over 33% of the UK's power could come from tidal power.


Wave power: Wave power draws power from the waves, duh. It is estimated half of the world's energy could come from Wave power.

Another thing thats also important to point out that these energy sources require virtually no energy to set up. Unlike oil, gas, coal, hydrogen, and biomass.

All that aside, there is a type of energy that is better then any of them.

Geothermal: Geothermal is the energy source that holds the single most potential of any energy source that we have yet dreamed of. Most forms of energy are expressed in kilawat hours. Not geothermal. It is expressed in ZJ, or Zeta Juelz, or however they spell jewel, whatever. The point is 1/2 of a ZJ of power is enough to power the entire world for a whole year. A recent MIT study estimated that the total capacity of the earth is 13,000 ZJ of Geothermal power with 2,000 ZJ easily tap able. Do you understand that, that means that if we utilize this source which is possible to easily do RIGHT NOW. That means that we could be set for 4,000 years, just on an easy portion of Geothermal. And when you realize that this energy re-generates by itself, we realize that it is limitless, we can use it forever.

These sources are not all of the clean sources available, and as time goes on, we can and will find more.


Cars: The technology necessary to make a battery that can power a car that can go over 100mph, for over 200 miles on one charge exists, but because there are patents on this technology, by oil companies who don't want to see it prevail for obvious reasons, the technology sadly stay un-utilized. There is no reason beyond business interest that every car shouldn't run on completly clean electricity.

Airplanes: Done, we don't need airplanes, we have something better at our fingertips. Maglev trains have been created, they are fast, clean, safe, and use only 2% of the energy used for plane travel. Currently maglev trains exist that can travel up to 361 mph. However, that version is outdated completly. An organization called ET3 has established a tube based maglev that can travel up to 4000mph, no that is not a typo 4000mph. It utilizes a frictionless tube that can travel underwater and on land. That means you could go from LA to New York in 45 minutes. From DC to Bejing in 2 hours, the possibilities are limitless.

This is the future of travel, between Geothermal, advanced battery technology and Maglev trains, there is no reason to use fossil fuels ever again.

We can do this now! Why does anybody get excited about offshore drilling? Who cares? by that time we could be well on our way to clean energy forever. Oil executives know this, but all they care about is money, think about that the next time you're at the pump filling up.