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TEXT B (READING TEXT FOR ACTIVITY 4_UNIT 5_BOOK 1)
Although it is obvious to recognize the human as well as environmental advantages of utilizing
renewable forms of energy, we must also consider some limiting sides from the energy.
The biggest disadvantage of renewable energy is that the cost of the energy is relatively higher than
non-renewable energy. The initial costs of renewable energy still make many people ignore it
completely when comparing it with fossil fuel on two aspects: total cost and over the same time period.
For example, installation of solar energy water heater costs many times in comparison with a heater, so
they decided to buy heaters for hot water solution. According Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)
(2008) reported that turbine installation costs $ 47.5 billion; by contrast, we only have to spend a much
smaller amount of money to build thermal power station about $ 2,25 billion (Shah 2011). He also
pointed that other incidental costs such as maintenance costs and production costs cause price
increasing. Generally, it is price that the reason has prevented approaching and using clean energy as
compared to the fossil fuel sources of energy.
