Persuasive Speech: Solar Power -- Persuasive Speech

Specific Purpose Statement To persuade my audience that that solar power should become the main form of alternative energy in the Unites States. submissionAttention Getter Lets look ahead fifty years and see what the world is like. Imagine a world that is in total state of war with no end in sight. The cause behind this war is simple, vegetable rock petroleum. Everyone is fighting over those last few reserves of oil. How can this future be prevented? The reception is solar power. Claim Solar power has the potential to become the United States main supply of energy and replace are needs for more conventional and harmful forms of power generation. Significance The United States must face the fact that the world is running out of oil and with todays rising oil prices, economic and political instability in regions where the United States gets the majority of its oil, this country must begin looking into alternative means of energy to replace oil and end our dependence on foreig n powers. Preview Today I depart discuss the potential that solar power has to become this countrys main supply of energy and the latest research that can make solar power more efficient and cost effective. I will as well as present the environmental benefits that come with using solar power over other and more harmful forms of energy. Body I. With the worlds supply of oil running dry the Unites States must begin looking into new sources of energy, and the most promising is solar power. A. Scientists predict that in the next several decades the world will run out of oil. According to the article How Fast is the World Running out of Crude Oil by Umut Newbury accessed from the EBSCO Host database states that world oil occupation o... ... must be universally adopted, and solar power is the key to unlocking that bright future. Works CitedClayton, Mark. The cost of Solar Energy Will Soon Compare with the Cost of Coal. Coal (2011). Print. 18 November 2014.David, Leonard. Proposed Satellite Would Beam Solar Power to Earth. 6 April 2012. Space.com. Website. 18 November 2014.Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc. EMISSIONS OF HAZERDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FROM COAL- FIRED POWER PLANTS. Environmental Report. Needham, 2011. Print. 18 November 2014.Hamer, Glenn. Solar Power Can Help Fuel the Future. Energy Alternatives (2006). Print. 19 November 2014.Newbury, Umut. How Fast is the World Running out of Crude Oil. Mother Earth password October 2004 28. 18 November 2014.Rotman, David. Finding a Solar Solution. Technology Review 2 (2012) 48-51. Print. 22 November 2014.