Hello everyone!

I'm a freshmen at a community college near my home in New York. I've been assigned a research paper and i picked Alternative energy/Sustainability as a topic. I was just wondering if anyone has anything to say about the matter. I know i can just google away and stick my face in a book all day but i want to know what other people in the world besides me think. I'm open to anything you have to tell me. 

Thanks.