Nate Lewis Video

At first I thought the video was going to be this geeky guy talking about things I didn’t understand but it was fairly easy to understand and very interesting. I liked how he set up his argument and talked about what we’re doing now and how much energy we’re using. Then he went in to talk about solutions and came to the conclusion that solar was the way to go in terms of renewable energy sources. He said that the sun produces the most TW’s of power out of all the renewable resources. We have 2,000 years of coal left to power the world we live in but we need to get off of it because it isn’t a renewable resource. The sun is always shining, except during the night of course, but we need somewhere to store the power. Al Gore has proposed or is going to propose that we have one big electrical line running across the entire United States.

I felt that it was hard to sit for the whole video, even though we watched it over a couple of days. I liked how he threw all these facts at the audience and at first it seemed like there was no hope but at the end I felt hopeful. From what he was saying, I feel that solar is the way to go. The sun is so powerful and the energy is essentially free, we just need to find a way to store it and make it affordable for everyone in the world.