RE: Some Challenges To Develop Hydropower
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Renewable energy sources like hydroelectric plants, solar farms, and wind mill have environmental impact. As you point out in the text, hydroelectric plants may affect fish biodiversity in the area. This is the same goes to solar and wind. For solar, we need large open spaces for our arrays of solar panel, which may cause for some deforestation. On the other hand, wind kills substantial amount of birds over time. I think it is a trade off to wanting a clean energy. !discovery 15
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Thank you @juecoree! Even though these energies are categorized as green energy, their infrastructure development will always have an impact on the surrounding environment. especially solar energy, it requires a very large area. the more energy we need, the more area for solar panels. and it provides an opportunity for environmental destruction.
That is why we can't go full on renewable hence the infrastructure requirement per Kwhr is high.
This is a hard decision, we are trying to reduce carbon emissions by leaving fossil energy such as petroleum and coal, but on the other hand, green energy development is not truly environmentally friendly and expensive.
Yes, it is. All technology has a disadvantage but we must weigh out which system brings less cons.
I remember you wrote about nuclear energy, do you think that could be a better solution? it's also one of the renewable energies, and I heard that the Philippines is trying to develop this energy, how is the progress?
It is a temporary solution for lessening the carbon emission and meet energy demand, but the risk associated is very high that developing nation can't afford to. The Philippines has a decade-old nuclear plant but we are not using it. Since its inception, it was not operated. The plant is in good shape but locals don't want it especially the media highlighting accident associated to nuclear plants. The politics in my country plays a lot in halting it. In terms of progress, it is too slow that even the audit wasn't roll out yet.
Nuclear energy is the only way to meet rising energy demand before reasonable green alternatives can overtake them.
China, India, etc. are all doing it. It's being realistic. In the US, political figures like Andrew Yang is also in favor of realistic approach over idealistic ones.
Solar isn't going to overtake any of the current technology, in terms of meeting demands, any time soon.
I have the same sentiment as you, Media bloated the concept and promotion of solar energy, but in an engineering perspective, it can't keep up the energy demand and its costly. On the other hand, Nuclear is the realistic approach to lessen carbon emission and solve the energy crisis. Personally, I prefer a well balanced energy generation profile.
it seems our country has the same problem, we also have old nuclear plants, many people especially environmentalists reject the further development of nuclear energy because Indonesia is an earthquake prone country, so the risk is big.