In my introduction I talked about how a good amount of Architectural designs and plans have begun to be geared towards harming the environment as little as possible. With the United States ommitting the second most amount of pollution in the world, and with the help of movies such as “An Inconvenient Truth,” it has been made clear that we need to slow down and try to keep from releasing as much harmful chemicals into the air as possible. Some of you reading this may think that mentioning “An Inconvenient Truth” and using it as an example might be a bad idea, because almost all of the facts, even the claim that “Global Warming” is taking place have been proven wrong. But that doesn’t discredit the fact that we’re facing a climate change, whether it’s serious or not. And all our pollution may be the cause of it.
Knowing this, people think that it’s very important to learn to use and live on renewable resources such as solar power and perhaps even wind power. Solar power is a great idea, but there are some problems with wind power. I was amazed when I saw that the percentage of the US’s power in 2007 generated by wind was just under .0026%, because of how inefficient it sounds. The amount of wind and the dependability of the wind is completely unpredictable and the amount of land needed to properly harness the use of wind power makes the idea seem like a lost cause. However, the Department of Energy (DOE) and industry concludes that “wind could generate 20 percent of U.S. power needs by 2030.” Can you imagine the amount of land that would be needed to get that much power out of it?
The building of dams to generate the power currently used by most households kills a ton of wildlife and could be replaced by nuclear power and other more effective resources. Many companies believe that using other sources which will not harm the environment as much is so important that they’re beginning to make them more affordable so that more people can join in helping the world (not that it’ll really do anything, because of China’s 90% use of coal as a resource…).
This blog might have been very off topic, but for those of you reading this, just know that i’m going to probably switch my topic to something relating to the pollution problem and the US’s involvement in it compared to the rest of the world.
