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In the 21st century, our need for energy is greater than it has ever been. Fossil fuels like
coal, oil and gas were formed millions of years ago, and when power stations burn them to create
electricity, they release harmful gases into the atmosphere. There may be enough coal to last for
a few hundred years, but known oil and gas reserves will run out in less than 50 years - and then
what will we do?
Many scientists suggest turning to renewable energy, which means sources of energy that
will never run out. It can be produced using the wind, the sun, waves or hot springs. The wind
can turn large turbines to produce electricity, while energy from the sun can be collected in
panels and stored in batteries. The movement of the sea can also be changed into electrical
energy by using wave machines and, in parts of the world where there is volcanic activity, hot
springs can produce geothermal energy. Unlike nuclear power, these are safe sources of energy
that don’t pollute the environment.
Our dependence on fossil fuels has to end soon. Let’s hope that by the time all the
reserves are gone, there will be enough alternative sources of efficient energy available. In the
meantime, why don’t we try to reduce the amount of energy that we use?
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1. Firefighters struggled all day Thursday, February 12, 1998 to extinguish a stubborn blaze that erupted in a seven-storey downtown office building. Officials worried that tons of water used to fight the fire might freeze and bring down the entire structure.
2. City police considers this fire to be the city's biggest fire in recent memory: 41 people were injured, 33 of them firefighters.
3. The blaze, which appeared to be under control in the evening of the same day gutted the Russian Sea Fleet building, Rozhdestvenskaya Street, about midway between the Bolshoi Theatre and Lubyanskaya Square.
4. More than 100 people were evacuated from the Sea Fleet building after the fire broke out at around 4:30 p.m. Many were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation. A police spokesman said that three civilian women and nine firefighters had been hospitalized by late Thursday, mostly for burns or smoke inhalation.
5. The building houses the offices of the Sea Fleet. There was no immediate damage estimate.
6. “Temperatures there, especially inside of the walls and floors, are still very high, - said spokesman for the Moscow Fire Department. Today firefighters were knocking down the walls to make sure that fire is put out”.
7. The building's four upper floors were gutted. While upper floors of the nearly century- old building continued to smoulder late Thursday, small groups of Sea Fleet administration employees were allowed to venture into the lower floors in search of personal belongings.
8. Officials saved the Russian flag and carried it carefully from the building. Officials said
that the biggest losses were archives, data bases and the communication centre that manages links between all Russian seaports and the merchant fleet.
