The Myriad Forms of Alternate Energy The need for renewable
sources of energy is critical. Energy use skyrockets, fossil
fuels gradually disappear, and we (Americans, especially) cross
our fingers and hope that our way of life might continue. The
huge concerns about the polluting nature of fossil fuels has
become subsumed by the concern that fossil fuels have or will
soon become an energy sources which is simply unavailable. The
problem of peak oil is the biggest concern of the moment. In
brief, it's the reality that as oil supplies diminish, the work
required to extract remaining oil increases. As a result, we
expend more energy resources to acquire more energy resources.
So the question isn't "how much oil is left?" Instead, we have
to ask how much oil we'll need to use in order to extract the
remaining resources. But this isn't an article about the peak
oil crisis or fossil fuels: it's about alternative energy
sources. Following a recent article describing an idea to use
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