Clean Energy

The phrase “renewable energy” refers to all energies that we can obtain from energy resources that recur in nature periodically such as wind energy, solar energy, water energy, bioenergy, and thermal heat. In this way, it is unlike non-renewable energies that are often found in stocks inside the earth, where it is not possible to benefit from them, except after human intervention to extract them from it, such as oil, coal, and natural gas.

In light of the continuous rises in oil prices and with the approaching depletion of its sources, the countries of the world, especially the Western countries, began to prepare for the time of oil depletion, putting all possible efforts to implement a new strategy for alternative energy. Oil, coal and gas constitute the most important depleted energy sources used in the world and constitute 86% of the total energy used globally. Renewable energy sources do not exceed 14% of the total energy used globally.

According to the reports of the International Energy Organization and international energy companies, the world's oil reserves are sufficient for the world's use for a period of 40 years, while natural gas is sufficient for a period of 67 years, and coal is sufficient for a period of "192" years, according to current consumption rates.

There is a close relationship between energy consumption and environmental pollution, so that it became evident that environmental pollution was found only after energy consumption increased from its polluting sources such as oil, coal, and natural gas. Those sources release various pollutants in surplus quantities that exceed the ability of the natural system to absorb and digest them. So that the natural balance was disturbed, and the concentration of pollutants increased. Accordingly, this has widened the negative results such as climate change embodied by the rise in the global temperature and humidity in the air, the spread of devastating floods and hurricanes, and the movement of the climatic-agricultural zones from their usual places, and other changes that are difficult or even impossible to control. The solution to the problem of pollution lies in the human shift from energy sources that pollute the environment to renewable sources that do not contribute to the problem of pollution.

The use of alternative energy sources has political, economic, and environmental consequences that cannot be ignored. The most important of them are:

1. Reducing the burden of high oil prices and its sharp surges, which have bad economic, social and security repercussions.

2. Preventing the recurrence of the use of oil as an economic or political weapon and depriving the oil-producing countries, especially the countries accused of supporting terrorism, of an important and effective privilege.

3. The growing global concern about the depletion of oil reserves and the consequent repercussions. Modern civilization will not be able to bear its consequences.

4. Minimizing the problems resulting from the production and burning of fossil fuels "oil, natural gas, and coal", such as pollution to the environment and increase in temperature on the surface of the Earth.