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The world is falling apart, and we need to find new alternatives to oil and quit our love affair with it;, it has gotten out of hand. There are plenty of energy alternatives to this.that are cleaner. The only thing is we just need to start researching them more. They may be costly right now but what will be the cost of not going to these alternatives and saving the planet now? We need to leave fossil fuels behind and start focusing on the future and see what we need to do to be prepared before it is too late. It’s possible for us to look at space for this power and also look at where we can use it and how much current fuels amount to. I am not saying that we should completely stop getting energy from oil and coal, but we should not be as dependent on it.

How much more can we take before we have to stop, or before we run out? First let’s look back at what is the sun?, Tthe sun is a star. Made up from the gas from an earlier and much larger star blew up. Our sun is an estimated 4.6 billion years old and is estimated to live for another 5 billion years ago, without our sun life on earth would not be possible (Farndon).

First let’s look back at what is the sun, the sun is a star. Made up from the gas from an earlier and much larger star blew up. Our sun is an estimated 4.6 billion years old and is estimated to live for another 5 billion years ago, without our sun life on earth would not be possible (Farndon). The very idea of having solar panels in space may seem kind of out there but in reality it really isn’t. The idea of us being able to harvest energy for earth through solar panels in space has been around for about 40 years, NASA and the National Research Council were the first to look at this idea but it is now also being loo...

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