English Oral on Wind Farms / Alternative Energies

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"Are wind farms effective as an alternative source of energy" that's the topic I've chosen.
So I'm just going to ramble for a bit here about my plan and hopefully get some feedback about it before I start researching and writing it.

Before everything else, I realised that focusing only on one type of an alternative energy source seems like a narrow minded view on a larger topic. I decided that I should talk about wind farms initially before branching out and saying that wind farms are just one solution out of many that need to be considered. At this point I would be able to talk about different sources of energy and how they compare to each other. This feels like a good idea in that it'll give me a broader range of things to talk about for 5-10 minutes but I'm not sure if teachers usually like it when the talks go away from the prompt given.
The main backbone of most of my arguments will be in relation to climate change. The general idea being: Why do we need to consider alternative sources of energy? Because of climate change. It's not going to be my main speaking point though because another oral topic was "Should the Australian Government take climate change more seriously" and I'd rather not get stuck between two camps.

Now my oral layout.
I would began with a breakdown of energy usage in Victoria showing how the majority is from fossil fuels. I would go from here to briefly talk about climate change and why we need to consider alternative sources of energy. Now with the contention of "we need to consider different energies" clearly laid out I would talk about wind farms. How they work, the pros/cons, effectiveness, use in Victoria. Moving off of just wind farms I could then talk about how stopping climate change is a combined effort and is going to require more than one technology as there is no "Holy Grail", and then could speak about solar farms, hydroelectric, possibility of nuclear plants and such.

I feel like I've got a pretty solid plan put together but would still like to hear feedback about my points or structuring before I start writing it. Additionally, if anyone knows some related articles/links on alternative energies it would be hugely appreciated.

[vox nihili]

"Are wind farms effective as an alternative source of energy" that's the topic I've chosen.
So I'm just going to ramble for a bit here about my plan and hopefully get some feedback about it before I start researching and writing it.

Before everything else, I realised that focusing only on one type of an alternative energy source seems like a narrow minded view on a larger topic. I decided that I should talk about wind farms initially before branching out and saying that wind farms are just one solution out of many that need to be considered. At this point I would be able to talk about different sources of energy and how they compare to each other. This feels like a good idea in that it'll give me a broader range of things to talk about for 5-10 minutes but I'm not sure if teachers usually like it when the talks go away from the prompt given.
The main backbone of most of my arguments will be in relation to climate change. The general idea being: Why do we need to consider alternative sources of energy? Because of climate change. It's not going to be my main speaking point though because another oral topic was "Should the Australian Government take climate change more seriously" and I'd rather not get stuck between two camps.

Now my oral layout.
I would began with a breakdown of energy usage in Victoria showing how the majority is from fossil fuels. I would go from here to briefly talk about climate change and why we need to consider alternative sources of energy. Now with the contention of "we need to consider different energies" clearly laid out I would talk about wind farms. How they work, the pros/cons, effectiveness, use in Victoria. Moving off of just wind farms I could then talk about how stopping climate change is a combined effort and is going to require more than one technology as there is no "Holy Grail", and then could speak about solar farms, hydroelectric, possibility of nuclear plants and such.

I feel like I've got a pretty solid plan put together but would still like to hear feedback about my points or structuring before I start writing it. Additionally, if anyone knows some related articles/links on alternative energies it would be hugely appreciated.

You've got a general idea about what you're talking, but I think when you get to writing you'll get a bit lost because I'm not entirely sure you know exactly what you want to say. That's actually a good thing though, because researching and writing are really great ways to facilitate your thinking. So get writing, end up with something absolutely shithouse and then keep on cleaning up until you've found out exactly what you want to say!

It could be an interesting topic! If I were you, I'd be making the point that we actually use perhaps the most wasteful and most dangerous energy source we've got. Plenty of research on that, and ABC's the Drum always has articles about this stuff (they'll be a good start).