The Energy Gap

      One of the largest controversies today is that we are running out of energy to power the planet. This is because many of these resources, that provide energy, are depleting. The majority of our energy comes from natural gas, coal, and oil; all which are from fossil fuels. Fossil fuel is non-renewable due to the rate at which their depletion is greater than their regeneration. For example, fossil fuels are from ancient and deceased plants and animals that have been eroded down by many years of weather. Unfortunately even with the technology that the human populace control and own, we cannot create new supplies of gas, coal, or oil at the rate in which we consume it. This inverse rate is known as the energy gap: when the situation in which we cannot produce enough power for our needs. Not only is there a gap of energy within these resources, non-renewable resources also emit an excess of carbon into the atmosphere, which has resulted to a rise in the Earth’s temperature. The problem states itself clearly; the human population is running out of energy and nonrenewable resources are polluting the world. The solution is, we must switch to renewable energy.