Why do people use non renewable instead of renewable energy resources?
Non renewable energy sources like oil, gas & coal are very concentrated forms of energy. All you have to do to release the energy is start them burning and then get out a lot of energy from a relatively small volume. In addition they don’t have to be processed where they are found. You can transport them with little trouble. Renewable energy sources like solar & wind are not very concentrated at all. To get a usefull amount of energy from them requires large gathering techniques. These sources also have to be processed into electricity right where they’re found. These different characteristics make non renewable energy cheaper to produce. A hundred years ago there was so much oil & gas & coal that no one thought much about it running out and it was so easy to use there was not much interest in the harder much more expensive renewable sources. Nowdays with the polution problem and with fossill fuels getting more scarce and expensive and with advances in technology, renewable sources are
