Hello, hello thank you all for coming today. Now I know when you hear the word “speech” or “essay” you think this is going to be very boring. Don’t worry it’s not boring, unless you don’t like speeches or essays. Ok so time we face the fact that we can depend on fossil fuels any longer and that we need something else. I believe that wave power should be the main replacement of fossil fuels. Wave power is an unbelievable new source of clean, reusable energy. First off, waves are made when “wind blows against the surface of the sea and creates waves that are packed with kinetic energy” (Spilsbury 18). As big as the oceans are, I believe the benefits of wave power are even greater. There could be no limit to what we could get from wave power
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Other countries have already been using it to be the sole source of powering the everyday home. “The Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland sell electricity to each other so they always have enough” (Spilsbury 23). Well isn’t that nice of them to do. Four countries came together and are sharing electricity with one another. “Around 99 percent of electricity from Norway is generated from hydroelectric dams” (Spilsbury 23) Wow, okay so by this I’m hearing that 99 percent of one country is powered by water. On top of that, they are sharing that power with three other countries. So really four, not one, two, or three, but four countries are all happy and have been brought together by using this amazing, renewable resource. Of course it doesn’t stop there either. “Newer designs are being tested in Japan, Australia, and in the Bay of Fundy between the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Brunswick” (Wave Power) Due to the “100 billion tons of seawater that passes in and out of the Bay of Fundy daily could theoretically generate enough electricity to supply 20 percent of the power demands in Nova Scotia” (Wave Power) Now I know that doesn’t seem like a lot, but there’s a lot of people in Nova Scotia, so 1 out of 5 people are using wave power for their homes and
Other countries have already been using it to be the sole source of powering the everyday home. “The Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland sell electricity to each other so they always have enough” (Spilsbury 23). Well isn’t that nice of them to do. Four countries came together and are sharing electricity with one another. “Around 99 percent of electricity from Norway is generated from hydroelectric dams” (Spilsbury 23) Wow, okay so by this I’m hearing that 99 percent of one country is powered by water. On top of that, they are sharing that power with three other countries. So really four, not one, two, or three, but four countries are all happy and have been brought together by using this amazing, renewable resource. Of course it doesn’t stop there either. “Newer designs are being tested in Japan, Australia, and in the Bay of Fundy between the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Brunswick” (Wave Power) Due to the “100 billion tons of seawater that passes in and out of the Bay of Fundy daily could theoretically generate enough electricity to supply 20 percent of the power demands in Nova Scotia” (Wave Power) Now I know that doesn’t seem like a lot, but there’s a lot of people in Nova Scotia, so 1 out of 5 people are using wave power for their homes and