| When talking about different renewable energy | | | | same path because solar panels and all other solar |
| sources people usually talk about wind power and | | | | power technologies are still fairly expensive, mostly |
| solar power though there are some other clean | | | | because they need rare, expensive materials for their |
| energy sources such as geothermal power, biomass, | | | | production, such as silicon. |
| hydropower, tidal and wave power. | | | | The costs still remain high as said above but at least |
| The Sun and the wind are two abundant renewable | | | | we are seeing the trend of decline in prices which |
| energy resources that could with their enormous | | | | could eventually lead to better cost-competitiveness of |
| potential supply our current energy needs more than | | | | these sources. |
| 1000 times. But yet, despite their recent increase in | | | | When it comes to clean energy technologies then no |
| popularity these energy sources are still not developed | | | | country in the world is equal to China that has recently |
| enough to put a decent challenge to fossil fuel industry | | | | become world's largest manufacturer of solar panels |
| on global scale, and by the current looks of it they will | | | | as well as wind turbines, with other countries like United |
| need at least few decades more to compete with | | | | States and United Kingdom trailing heavy behind. |
| coal, oil, and natural gas, especially the solar power. | | | | Of course, all these countries still heavy depend on |
| Wind power industry has managed to decrease costs | | | | fossil fuels to satisfy their energy demand but they all |
| very close to fossil fuel industry but solar industry will | | | | look to be more than willing to challenge China in clean |
| need lot more development and research to follow the | | | | energy race. |