Energy CrisisGod sent Adam with very few needs and strong limbs to to fulfil those needs. As time passed and civilization
advanced, man found himself more and more aloof from nature, lazy and luxurious and utterly dependent on
machines need energy.
In the industrially advanced world today, the demand for energy is increasing every day. We have machines and factories, buses, cars, trains and planes and ships and sub-marines. Energy is needed to run them. But this is not all. Man has grown so lazy that he does not like even to wind his watch. So energy is being used for running clocks and watches, typewriters, shaving razors and many more things.
Wood later on
coal was the first source of energy. Then came
oil and passing through the stage of atomic energy man is now looking forward to
solar energy.We are naturally anxious because we know that a day may ultimately come when we have no more coal or oil. It will mean energy crisis. People who have made careful calculations feel that we will have used all available oil by the year 2025 and coal mines will also be empty in about thirty years. Man is on the look out for other sources of energy. Our present hope seems to rest on
nuclear power. But nuclear power is full of risks. It is very explosive. Accidents and mishaps in nuclear reactors are very hazardious. The radio-active waves from a nuclear plant that has broken down are a great threat to man. Moreover, when a nuclear plant is dead after 50 years it has to be buried and guarded for ever.Scientist all over the world are trying to meet the challenge. They are trying to harness solar, water and air reserves. Hydro electric power is cheaper, so are air mills. Solar energy too has bright hopes for man. However, it is very expensive to stablish the necessary infrastructure for tapping solar energy. Giant dishes are made to concenterate the sunlight on the thermal generators which use this sunliht to produce energy.Neverthless, all possible efforts will have to be made to save us from total darkness and helplessness. Scientists are doing their best but the major responsibility rests with the politicians, because it is sometimes lack of political will that hinders developments, in every field. And what is equally important, man should use his physical energy more instead of depending on machines for every purpose.
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