Arturo Incháurregui 4oC

Renewable energy for México

Today, in the world we are living, we humans have created a lot of inventions.
Inventions we couldn't even imagine 50 years ago, our technology has advanced
enormously since the last few years. But as the time passed we have also spent
great part of our resources with the purpose of creating energy. At the same time our
technology has improved, so did our ways to obtain energy to sustain it. In the past
we’ve used oils and coal as fuel, we’ve also used vapor to move heavy trains and
machines, but nowadays it’s rare for us to use them. These energy obtaining method
has damaged our environment, chopping trees, taking away animal habitats and
endangering species, polluting our air and compromising our own health by
breathing in toxic components, etc.

This is a problem we are living in Mexico, with a lot of contamination and pollution in
its largest cities. Renewable energy allows us to feed or technological needs without
releasing hydrocarbons to the atmosphere and overheating our earth's surface,
which is a big problem to global warming. That been said, in Mexico, on 2014,
51,481 Gigawatts per hour (GWh) were produced by renewable energy, being eolic
the most exploited one.

Renewable energy is indeed a great idea for a more ecologic country, but
implementing it requires a lot of planning and money, which sometimes makes it
easier for countries to not use it and keep spending and polluting instead. Living in a
third world country, like Mexico, requires a hard work and a lot of participation from
our society. We are halfway there, and in the next years we’ll be using even more
this type of energy. The most exploitables in Mexico are eolic, biomass, solar and
hydroelectric, which is also expensive.

I think transforming our trash, specifically plastics into a type of fuel, would be a great
idea for Mexico, as it has a lot of litter in the city and in water bodies. If we
transformed plastics into energy we would help a lot our environment.

OISE (Date unknown) Energías Renovables [online] available at:

http://www.oise.mx/renovables [accesed April 22nd 2020]
Student Energy, Chris Frewin (Date unknown) Renewable Energy [online] available at:
https://www.studentenergy.org/topics/renewable-energy [accesed April 22nd 2020]
Just Energy, Audrey Black (2018) 7 Types of Renewable Energy: The Future of Energy
[online] available at: [accesed April 22nd 2020]https://www.justenergy.com/blog/7-types-of-
renewable-energy-the-future-of-energy/