What are the alternatives to energy crisis?

A brief Summary of the Energy Crisis and

The energy crisis is a reality, we rely on fossil fuels for about 90% of our energy, but these resources are not renewable, and the greenhouse gases that they produce when burned are causing global warming (although it is debateable about the other causes. The biggest of these two problems is that they are running out, our main fossil fuels: coal, oil, natural gas. Are due to run out in 2230 (coal), 2040 (oil), 2070 (natural gas). However, these figures keep changing all the time, my physics teacher said that he first started teaching that the fossil fuels were all going to run out by 1995!
These figures keep changing for multiple reasons, one of the main ones is that we keep finding more fossil fuels. However, this will still be short-lived because they are eventually going to run out. A good place for fossil fuels is hard to find, and are desperately needed (in 1913 Germany wanted to build a train that would go from Berlin to Baghdad, and it is not my place to discuss the current war with Iraq).
The alternatives to this energy crisis are few, and involve all of us doing our bit for the environment, these include:

• Rely more on alternate sources of energy (e.g. geothermic, solar, biomass, hydro, nuclear) that are renewable, and will not run out within the next century (only time will tell). That way the scales will be more balanced, and both the fossil fuels will last longer and it will not come as such a shock when the fossil fuels run out.
• We can recycle more, using less resources, it does not have to be that big so that it becomes a nuissance, but every little helps (not a TESCOs advert). At my school we recycle paper and plastic.
• You can use less energy, just by making sure that your house is well insulated you can reduce your electircity bills and help save the planet.

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