I'm doing a paper on the relationship between Renewable Energy sources and consumerism. Would anyone know of any sources that might help me find any statistics, trends, possible effects and the like? Thanks!
Its not all that advanced. In truth its more of an ethics paper but I'd like it to have as many facts and statistics as possible.

What is the point of wind farms/turbines?

Every single wind farm in the UK is backed up 100% with real power producing technology, for example if we build a wind farm to produce power to 5 million homes we also need them 5 million homes to have a backup form of power like nuclear or real power stations.

So in truth wind turbines have not decreased co2 at all. How can we be so foolish. Who is getting rich off these subsidies?

Alternative Energy?

I've read reports that by 2030, 115 million barrels of oil need to be produced to the meet the increase needs of China and India.
This particular author advocated highly for alternative energies.
However, I read another source, where the argument was that alternative energies were just as harmful to the environment.
It is clear that the stifling need of fuels from over-populated India and China pose a large challenge, but is alternative energy the answer? Is there really enough oil to last us at least a century as some sources suggest? It's difficult to get the truth from so many differing biases on our economy and fuel-usage.

  
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