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Jose Diaz
Mrs.DeBock
English 4
14 April 2016

The Benefits of Alternative Energy towards countries

Alternative energy benefits a country that lacks in a healthy environment by using
efficient types of energy, which will drastically improve peoples health and give people clean
abundant types of energy for household and public use. There are different events and places that
use alternative energy like Switzerland where they are starting to transition from using other
harmful alternatives to using healthy alternatives, which will help the reductions of carbon
emissions and other harmful pollutants.
First, Alternative energy will help us with the reduction of using fossil fuel that harms our
earths environment and atmosphere like for example Switzerland, which is transitioning from
using nuclear energy to using other types of alternatives like solar and wind energy. This vision
of Switzerland's future energy supply is admittedly ambitious, which makes it susceptible to
uncertainties such as the political impact of decisions about energy made by the surrounding
states of the European Union(Notter 58). Switzerland was using nuclear energy, But after
Fukushima the Swiss government decided to close down all its nuclear power plants, without a
clear vision of what will take their place a pressing concern at a time of ever-increasing
demand(Notter 52).

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Secondly, The other problems with natural gases is transportation. The most known
alternative to gas pipe is the compressed gas container transportation(Shendrik 572). The only
exception is dangerous or harmful impurities - hydrogen sulfide, sulfur or carbon
monoxide(Shendrik 574). With alternative energy, this will change how we use energy in
different transportations whether its a train or motorcycles. Over in New York, the city is
starting to use bicycles because they are more efficient and will reduce the emission from the
city. There are technology that help with transportation. This technology is called virtual pipe
revealed very good practical results(Shendrik 576).

Next, there is a mass amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere, According to the IPCC, global
CO2 emissions need to fall by about 40 percent below current levels within 20 years, to around
20 billion tons, and 80 percent by 2050, to seven billion tons(Robert 13). This shows how our
environment is being affected by these impurities. Expanding the supply of clean renewable
energy will require major investments in solar, wind, geothermal, and small-scale hydropower, as
well as in low-emissions bioenergy sources, such as ethanol from switchgrass, agricultural
wastes, and waste grease(Robert 14). This will give many benefits to the global efforts on
pollution and impurities in the air.

In conclusion, alternative energy benefits a country that lacks in a healthy environment

by using efficient types of energy, which will drastically improve peoples health and give people
clean abundant types of energy for household and public use. Alternative energy gives people

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relief from carbon emissions and other impurities in the country that could cause problems for
the countrys environment. Many of these renewable energies will have many benefits for the
country and their environment.

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Shendrik, A. M., and M. I. Fyk. "Natural Gas Container Transportation: The Alternative Way To
Solve The World's Energy Transportation Problems." European Researcher 71.3-2 (2014):
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