The 10 megawatts of power that will be generated by the Sound of Islay turbine farm pales into insignificance when compared to the output of a large nuclear or coal power station, which according to American hydro energy non-profit the Ocean Energy Council, can produce up to 100 times as much electricity.
Solar energy, hydro-electricity, geothermal, biofuels and nuclear are options that are going to be explored.
Therefore, set up large wind farms and hydro dams to capture the energy.
Energy has driven the world for over a thousand years Wind, Hydro and Solar are the oldest forms of energy giving power to all smart enough to use it.
And according to the U.S. Department of Energy, even if all renewable sources (including hydro) which now provide about 10% of American energy were to grow at three times the pace of all others, they would still make up just 16% of all domestic supplies by 2035.
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Only after the cost of generation and storage of renewable energy matches the cost of on-demand generation from fossil, nuclear and hydro we will we see a transformation of the energy industry.
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Another renewable energy producer, Pacific Hydro, is building an even bigger farm at Portland, on the coast of the southern Australian state of Victoria.
Renewable energy production (excluding hydro power), meanwhile, more than doubled between 2004 and 2011 thought it still accounts for just under 5% of total electricity generation.
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The energy infrastructure of Iceland is one of the cleanest in the world, capable of producing 100 percent of its electricity from homegrown renewable energy resources such as hydro and geothermal.
Other energy sources, such as hydro power solar, and wind power are extremely safe.
Power company SSE said energy production for its conventional hydro plants was at its highest since records began in the 1930s.
While it is absolutely essential that we continue to drive down the costs of generating electricity from solar (and wind, which is indirect solar energy, ) doing so alone will not make these renewable energy sources competitive with traditional hydro, fossil or nuclear generated electricity.
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Cornwall can already produce more than 80 megawatts (MW) of electricity from wind, hydro-electric, solar and other renewable energy sources.
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John says he wants to be environmentally friendly and is generating his own renewable energy from solar, wind and hydro schemes on his farm but there also has to be an economic consideration.
Environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth would like to see a switch to renewable and clean sources of energy such as solar, wind and hydro-electric power.
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More than 20 years on from Chernobyl, nuclear provides 6.5% of the world's energy--three times as much as hydro power.
After all, Scotland already has 18% of its energy needs supplied by clean sources, including hydro power, three years ahead of schedule.
Energy firm SSE, which trades as Scottish Hydro, Swalec and Southern Electric, will increase its domestic gas and electricity prices by an average of 9% from 15 October.
According to Pacific Hydro, wind is the world's fastest growing energy source, with installed capacity over the five years from 1998-200 growing at an average 32 percent a year.
Rains have replenished Brazil's hydro-electric dams, allowing the government to stop rationing energy.
The renewable energy sector said the latest figures show wind and hydro developments have displaced 8.36 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Scottish and Southern Energy Renewables has applied to build Scotland's biggest ever hydro electric scheme at the west end of the Great Glen.
However, this region needs integrated hydro-power development and conservation planning so that the trade-offs between energy production and other ecosystem services, particularly those vital for the survival of the people that depend on them, are better understood before such dams are developed.
Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission Limited (SHETL), a subsidiary of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), put plans for the interconnector on hold last year.
Coal, used to produce steel, is also a viable replacement for oil, with its adoption for energy generation expected to grow incrementally more than natural gas, oil, hydro, solar, biomass, and geothermal combines over the next decade, according to Peabody.
"Hydro electric schemes, which use impounded water to generate electricity, are an excellent means of energy storage, " said SSE Renewables managing director Jim Smith.
Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.
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