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The Feasibility of Green Energy

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์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ / ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ / ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„
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TL;DR ๐Ÿฆ„
  • ๐ŸŒฑ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ means whether green energy is reasonable and justified when environmental goals, technology, cost, and social conditions are all considered. (the feasibility/validity of green energy)
  • ๐Ÿ’ธ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ checks whether the long-term benefits, operating costs, investment burden, and efficiency make the energy plan financially persuasive. (economic viability)
  • ๐Ÿงช ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„ reminds us that clean energy still needs storage, grid stability, location planning, and reliable supply. (technical limitations)
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๐ŸŽง Iru Helper Note โ€” Long phrases like ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๋‹ค (to analyze the economic viability of green energy) can feel like they are wearing a tiny policy suit. Type them into
Korean Helper Widgets
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to hear the rhythm clearly. โšก
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๐ŸŒˆ The Big Picture

์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ (green/environmentally friendly energy) sounds automatically positive, but advanced Korean discussion asks a sharper question: โ€œIs it actually viable in this situation?โ€ ๐ŸŒ
That question has three lenses. ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ (validity / reasonableness) asks whether the plan makes sense. ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ (economic viability) asks whether the cost-benefit logic holds. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„ (technical limitations) asks whether the technology can provide stable, scalable power. ๐Ÿ”
A strong argument does not simply say โ€œgreen energy is good.โ€ It explains why a project is promising, where it is limited, and what support is needed for the transition to work. That is the difference between a slogan and analysis. ๐Ÿง 

๐ŸŽจ The Core Green Energy Feasibility Family

  • ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ = green / environmentally friendly energy; broader than ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ (renewable energy), because it emphasizes environmental benefit.
  • ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ = renewable energy, such as ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ (solar power), ํ’๋ ฅ (wind power), and ์ˆ˜๋ ฅ (hydropower).
  • ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ = validity / reasonableness; whether a project is justified.
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ = economic viability; whether costs, benefits, efficiency, and long-term value make sense.
  • ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„ = technical limitation; a technology-side constraint such as storage, transmission, or intermittency.
  • ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ = intermittency; the problem that solar and wind output changes depending on weather and time.
  • ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ = power-grid stability; whether electricity can be supplied reliably.
  • ์ €์žฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  = storage technology; systems that store power for later use.
  • ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž ๋น„์šฉ = initial investment cost; money needed before a project begins.
  • ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŽธ์ต = long-term benefit; benefits that appear over time, such as lower emissions or reduced fuel dependence.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence

  • ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ์€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ง€์—ญ ์กฐ๊ฑด๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. (The feasibility of a green energy project must consider not only environmental effects but also local conditions and technological level.) ๐ŸŒฑ
    • ์‚ฌ์—… = project/business, ์ง€์—ญ ์กฐ๊ฑด = local conditions, ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋‹ค = to consider.
  • ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋†’๋”๋ผ๋„ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŽธ์ต์ด ํฌ๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์ด ํ™•๋ณด๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. (Even if initial investment costs are high, economic viability can be secured if long-term benefits are large.) ๐Ÿ’ธ
    • ๋†’๋‹ค = to be high, ํ™•๋ณด๋˜๋‹ค = to be secured.
  • ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘๊ณผ ํ’๋ ฅ์€ ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ €์žฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. (Solar and wind need storage technology to compensate for the technical limitation called intermittency.) โ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ
    • ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋‹ค = to compensate for / supplement, ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค = to be necessary.

๐Ÿงฉ General Formation Rule

Advanced evaluation phrases often stack nouns into compact policy language:
  • ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ (environmentally friendly) + ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ (energy) โ†’ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ (green energy)
  • ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  (technical) + ํ•œ๊ณ„ (limitation) โ†’ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„ (technical limitation)
  • ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง (power grid) + ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ (stability) โ†’ ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ (power-grid stability)
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œ (economy) + ์„ฑ (quality/characteristic) โ†’ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ (economic viability)
Useful verb pairings:
  • ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋‹ค (to review validity/feasibility)
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๋‹ค (to analyze economic viability)
  • ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋‹ค (to compensate for technical limitations)
  • ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋‹ค (to secure grid stability)
  • ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŽธ์ต์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋‹ค (to consider long-term benefits)

๐Ÿ“š Cross-check note

Core vocabulary and collocations such as ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ (environmentally friendly), ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ (energy), ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ (validity/feasibility), and ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ (economic viability) were cross-checked against ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ตญ์–ด์› / korean.go.kr usage and public Korean policy/research contexts. โœ…

๐Ÿชž Synonym Alert

  • ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ (green / environmentally friendly energy) โ€” broad, evaluative, emphasizes low environmental harm.
  • ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ (renewable energy) โ€” specific category from naturally replenished sources.
  • ์‹ ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ (new and renewable energy) โ€” common policy term in Korean public documents.
  • ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ (validity / feasibility) โ€” whether the plan is reasonable and justified.
  • ์‹คํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ (realizability) โ€” whether the plan can realistically become real.
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ (economic viability) โ€” whether the economic logic is persuasive.

โš ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge

  • โŒ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ = always perfectly feasible โ†’ โœ… environmental value still needs technical, economic, and local-condition review.
  • โŒ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ = cheap price โ†’ โœ… it means cost-benefit reasonableness, including long-term gains and operating costs.
  • โŒ ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ and ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ are always identical โ†’ โœ… renewable energy is a specific category; green energy is broader and more evaluative.
  • โŒ ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ is a minor detail โ†’ โœ… intermittency can affect supply stability and storage needs.
  • โŒ One successful pilot proves national feasibility โ†’ โœ… scale, grid capacity, financing, regulation, and public acceptance still matter.

You can now discuss green energy like a careful analyst: hopeful about climate benefits, alert to costs, and allergic to magical thinking. ๐ŸŒฑโšก๐Ÿ’ธ
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Try this exercise

Choose the best word or phrase for each blank. Focus on whether the sentence is testing environmental value, feasibility, economic logic, or technical limits.
1. ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ง€์—ญ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
To review the feasibility of a green energy project, local conditions must be examined. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ โ€” The sentence is asking whether the project is reasonable and justified in context.
2. ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋†’์•„๋„ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŽธ์ต์ด ํฌ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ™•๋ณด๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Even if initial costs are high, economic viability can be secured if long-term benefits are large. ๐Ÿ’ธ
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๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ โ€” Cost-benefit logic points to economic viability.
3. ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ๋ฐœ์ „์€ ๋‚ ์”จ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Solar power has intermittency because it is affected by weather. โ˜€๏ธ
Answer
๊ฐ„ํ— โ€” ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ means intermittency.
4. ์ „๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Power-grid stability is important for supplying electricity reliably. โšก
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์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ โ€” ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ means power-grid stability.
5. ๋‚จ๋Š” ์ „๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ €์žฅ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Storage technology is needed to keep surplus electricity. ๐Ÿ”‹
Answer
๊ธฐ์ˆ  โ€” ์ €์žฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  solves part of the intermittency problem.
6. ํ™”์„ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์˜์กด๋„๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋‹ค.
Reducing dependence on fossil fuels is an important benefit of green energy. โ›ฝ
Answer
ํŽธ์ต โ€” ํŽธ์ต means benefit.
7. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์•ˆ์ •์  ๊ณต๊ธ‰์ด ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค.
If technical limitations are not compensated for, stable supply is difficult. ๐Ÿงช
Answer
๋ณด์™„ โ€” ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋‹ค means to supplement or compensate for.
8. ์ •๋ถ€ ์ง€์›์€ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Government support can ease the initial investment burden. ๐Ÿ›๏ธ
Answer
์™„ํ™” โ€” ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค means to ease or reduce intensity.
9. ํ’๋ ฅ ๋ฐœ์ „์€ ์ž…์ง€ ์กฐ๊ฑด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํšจ์œจ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ง„๋‹ค.
Wind power efficiency varies depending on site conditions. ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ
Answer
๋‹ฌ๋ผ โ€” ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋‹ค means to vary or change.
10. ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ํšจ๊ณผ์™€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
Feasibility review should examine environmental effects and economic viability comprehensively. ๐Ÿ”
Answer
์ข…ํ•ฉ โ€” ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‹ค means to examine comprehensively.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ โ†’ green energy
  • ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ โ†’ validity; feasibility
  • ์ง€์—ญ ์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ local conditions
  • ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋น„์šฉ โ†’ initial cost
  • ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŽธ์ต โ†’ long-term benefit
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ โ†’ economic viability
  • ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ โ†’ intermittency
  • ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ โ†’ power-grid stability
  • ์ €์žฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  โ†’ storage technology
  • ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to supplement; compensate for
  • ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to ease; mitigate
  • ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋‹ค โ†’ to vary
  • ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‹ค โ†’ to examine comprehensively
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก Green energy analysis needs all three lenses: environmental value, economic viability, and technical reliability.

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Want more reps? The Practice Hub below turns green-energy feasibility vocabulary into fluent analytical muscle. ๐ŸŒฑ
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๐ŸŽฏ Practice Hub โ€” The Feasibility of Green Energy
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Welcome to your green-energy feasibility workout. ๐ŸŒฑ You will practice weighing ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ (feasibility/validity), ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ (economic viability), and ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„ (technical limitations) without falling into โ€œsolar panels solve everything by Tuesdayโ€ energy. โšก
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๐Ÿ”Š Audio reminder: Use
Korean Helper Widgets
Korean Helper Widgets
whenever long phrases like ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋‹ค (to secure grid stability) need a listening check.
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๐Ÿ“ Instructions: Complete each Korean sentence with the best vocabulary item. Read the English meaning, decide which analytical lens is being tested, then open the Answer toggle.
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Exercise 1 โ€” Feasibility and Justification ๐Ÿ”

A. ์ƒˆ ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ๋‹จ์ง€์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋ฏผ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Residentsโ€™ opinions were heard to review the feasibility of the new solar complex. โ˜€๏ธ
Answer
ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ โ€” Feasibility review includes social acceptance, not only technology.
B. ์ง€์—ญ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์—…๋„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค.
If local conditions do not fit, even a green energy project is difficult to implement. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
์ถ”์ง„ โ€” ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋‹ค means to carry forward or implement a project.
C. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋”๋ผ๋„ ์ •์ฑ… ๋ชฉํ‘œ์™€ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Even if environmental effects are large, suitability between policy goals and means is necessary. ๐Ÿงญ
Answer
์ ํ•ฉ โ€” ์ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ means suitability or fit.
D. ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ „ํ™˜์€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ์„ค๋“๋ ฅ์„ ์–ป๋Š”๋‹ค.
The transition to green energy gains persuasive power only when it has sufficient grounds. ๐Ÿง 
Answer
๊ทผ๊ฑฐ โ€” ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ means grounds or basis.
E. ์ž…์ง€ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜๋ฉด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ •๋‹น์„ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If site-location conflict is ignored, the projectโ€™s legitimacy may be undermined. ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ
Answer
ํ›ผ์† โ€” ํ›ผ์†๋˜๋‹ค means to be damaged or undermined.
F. ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ๋น„์šฉ, ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฃฌ๋‹ค.
Feasibility review handles technology, cost, and environmental effects comprehensively. ๐Ÿ“Š
Answer
์ข…ํ•ฉ โ€” ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ means comprehensively.
G. ๊ณต๊ณต์„ฑ์ด ์•ฝํ•˜๋ฉด ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์‚ฌ์—…๋„ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์–ป๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค.
If public value is weak, even a green project has difficulty gaining social support. ๐Ÿค
Answer
์ง€์ง€ โ€” ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์ง€์ง€ means social support.
H. ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „์— ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์˜ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
Environmental impact and economic burden must be considered together before the project. ๐ŸŒ
Answer
๊ณ ๋ ค โ€” ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋‹ค means to consider.
I. ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋งŒ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If only short-term results are considered, the long-term value of green energy may be underestimated. โณ
Answer
๊ณผ์†Œํ‰๊ฐ€ โ€” ๊ณผ์†Œํ‰๊ฐ€๋˜๋‹ค means to be underestimated.
J. ์ •์ฑ…์˜ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ์€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์™€ ํ˜„์‹ค ์กฐ๊ฑด์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹ค.
Policy feasibility comes from the balance between environmental protection and real-world conditions. โš–๏ธ
Answer
๊ท ํ˜• โ€” ๊ท ํ˜• means balance.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ๋‹จ์ง€ โ†’ solar complex
  • ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ โ†’ feasibility; validity
  • ์ฃผ๋ฏผ ์˜๊ฒฌ โ†’ residentsโ€™ opinions
  • ์ง€์—ญ ์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ local conditions
  • ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to implement; carry forward
  • ์ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ โ†’ suitability; fit
  • ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ โ†’ grounds; basis
  • ์ž…์ง€ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ โ†’ site-location conflict
  • ํ›ผ์†๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be undermined
  • ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ comprehensively
  • ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์ง€์ง€ โ†’ social support
  • ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to consider
  • ๊ณผ์†Œํ‰๊ฐ€๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be underestimated
  • ๊ท ํ˜• โ†’ balance
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ asks whether the project is justified under real conditions.

Exercise 2 โ€” Economic Viability ๐Ÿ’ธ

A. ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํฌ๋ฉด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ฑ์ด ๋‚ฎ์•„์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If initial investment costs are too large, the projectโ€™s economic viability may decrease. ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
๊ฒฝ์ œ โ€” ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ measures whether the money logic works.
B. ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๋น„ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์€ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ๋‹ค.
Fuel-cost reduction is included in the long-term benefit of green energy. โ›ฝ
Answer
ํŽธ์ต โ€” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŽธ์ต means long-term benefit.
C. ์„ค์น˜ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์œ ์ง€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ด์•ผ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Economic viability evaluation is accurate only when installation and maintenance costs are examined together. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ
Answer
ํ‰๊ฐ€ โ€” ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ ํ‰๊ฐ€ means economic viability evaluation.
D. ์ •๋ถ€ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ์€ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์—ฌ ๋„์ž…์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•œ๋‹ค.
Government subsidies ease the initial burden and promote adoption. ๐Ÿ›๏ธ
Answer
์™„ํ™” โ€” ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค means to ease or mitigate.
E. ์ „๊ธฐ์š”๊ธˆ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด ํˆฌ์ž ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค.
If the electricity-rate structure is unstable, investment returns are difficult to predict. ๐Ÿ”ฎ
Answer
์˜ˆ์ธก โ€” ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๋‹ค means to predict.
F. ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์šด์˜ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If long-term operating costs are reduced, economic viability can improve. ๐Ÿ“ˆ
Answer
๊ฐœ์„  โ€” ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๋‹ค means to improve.
G. ํƒ„์†Œ ๋ฐฐ์ถœ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋Š” ์ง์ ‘ ์ˆ˜์ต์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์–ด๋„ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋œ๋‹ค.
Carbon-emissions reduction is evaluated as social value even if it is not direct profit. ๐ŸŒซ๏ธ
Answer
๊ฐ€์น˜ โ€” ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜ means social value.
H. ๋น„์šฉ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์œผ๋ฉด ๋Œ€์•ˆ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
If cost-effectiveness is low, alternatives must be reviewed again. ๐Ÿ”
Answer
๊ฒ€ํ†  โ€” ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋‹ค means to review.
I. ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ ์น˜ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
To attract private investment, profitability must be secured to some degree. ๐Ÿ’ผ
Answer
ํ™•๋ณด โ€” ํ™•๋ณด๋˜๋‹ค means to be secured.
J. ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ํŽธ์ต์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋‹ค.
Economic viability is not a simple price but a comparison of costs and benefits. โš–๏ธ
Answer
๋น„๊ต โ€” ๋น„๊ต means comparison.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž ๋น„์šฉ โ†’ initial investment cost
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ โ†’ economic viability
  • ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๋น„ ์ ˆ๊ฐ โ†’ fuel-cost reduction
  • ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŽธ์ต โ†’ long-term benefit
  • ์„ค์น˜ ๋น„์šฉ โ†’ installation cost
  • ์œ ์ง€ ๋น„์šฉ โ†’ maintenance cost
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ ํ‰๊ฐ€ โ†’ economic viability evaluation
  • ์ •๋ถ€ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ โ†’ government subsidy
  • ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to ease; mitigate
  • ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to predict
  • ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to improve
  • ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜ โ†’ social value
  • ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to review
  • ํ™•๋ณด๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be secured
  • ๋น„๊ต โ†’ comparison
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ is not โ€œcheapnessโ€; it is whether benefits justify costs over time.

Exercise 3 โ€” Technical Limits and Grid Stability ๐Ÿงช

A. ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘๊ณผ ํ’๋ ฅ์˜ ์ถœ๋ ฅ์€ ๋‚ ์”จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋Š” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Solar and wind output has intermittency because it changes depending on weather. ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ
Answer
๊ฐ„ํ— โ€” ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ is the key technical limitation.
B. ์ „๋ ฅ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋†’์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
During high electricity demand, supply stability must be secured. โšก
Answer
์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ โ€” ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ means supply stability.
C. ๋‚จ๋Š” ์ „๋ ฅ์„ ์ €์žฅํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Energy storage devices are needed to store surplus power. ๐Ÿ”‹
Answer
์žฅ์น˜ โ€” ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ์žฅ์น˜ means energy storage device.
D. ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง์ด ๋‚ก์œผ๋ฉด ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ํ™•๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If the power grid is old, renewable energy expansion may be delayed. ๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
Answer
์ง€์—ฐ โ€” ์ง€์—ฐ๋˜๋‹ค means to be delayed.
E. ์†ก์ „ ์„ค๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋ฉด ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋œ ์ „๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค.
If transmission facilities are insufficient, generated electricity is difficult to transmit far. ๐Ÿ—ผ
Answer
์ „์†ก โ€” ์ „์†กํ•˜๋‹ค means to transmit.
F. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Technical limitations can be partly overcome through research and development. ๐Ÿงฌ
Answer
๊ทน๋ณต โ€” ๊ทน๋ณต๋˜๋‹ค means to be overcome.
G. ํ’๋ ฅ ๋ฐœ์ „์€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์˜ ์„ธ๊ธฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ฐœ์ „๋Ÿ‰์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ๋‹ค.
Wind power output fluctuates depending on wind strength. ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ
Answer
๋ณ€๋™ โ€” ๋ณ€๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค means to fluctuate.
H. ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์š”์™€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
To secure power-grid stability, demand and supply must be adjusted. ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ
Answer
์กฐ์ ˆ โ€” ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค means to adjust.
I. ์ €์žฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฐค ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€์˜ ์ „๋ ฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If storage technology is insufficient, nighttime power supply may become unstable. ๐ŸŒ™
Answer
๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•ด โ€” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•ด์ง€๋‹ค means to become unstable.
J. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์™„ํ•ด์•ผ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Green energy can be supplied reliably only when technical limitations are compensated for. ๐Ÿ”Œ
Answer
๊ณต๊ธ‰ โ€” ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋˜๋‹ค means to be supplied.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์ถœ๋ ฅ โ†’ output
  • ๋‚ ์”จ โ†’ weather
  • ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ โ†’ intermittency
  • ์ „๋ ฅ ์ˆ˜์š” โ†’ electricity demand
  • ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ โ†’ supply stability
  • ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ์žฅ์น˜ โ†’ energy storage device
  • ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง โ†’ power grid
  • ์ง€์—ฐ๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be delayed
  • ์†ก์ „ ์„ค๋น„ โ†’ transmission facility
  • ์ „์†กํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to transmit
  • ๊ทน๋ณต๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be overcome
  • ๋ณ€๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to fluctuate
  • ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to adjust
  • ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•ด์ง€๋‹ค โ†’ to become unstable
  • ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be supplied
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก Technical feasibility often depends on storage, transmission, demand management, and grid stability.

Exercise 4 โ€” Policy Conditions and Social Adoption ๐Ÿ›๏ธ

A. ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ํ™•๋Œ€์—๋Š” ์ œ๋„์  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
Green energy expansion must be supported by institutional support. ๐Ÿ›๏ธ
Answer
์ง€์› โ€” ์ œ๋„์  ์ง€์› means institutional support.
B. ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๊ณผ์˜ ์†Œํ†ต์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์šฉ์„ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If communication with local residents is insufficient, acceptance may decrease. ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Answer
๋‚ฎ์•„ โ€” ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€๋‹ค means to become lower.
C. ์ „ํ™˜ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๊ณต์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ๋‹ค.
Fairly sharing transition costs is related to social equity. โš–๏ธ
Answer
ํ˜•ํ‰์„ฑ โ€” ํ˜•ํ‰์„ฑ means equity or fairness.
D. ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ด์•ผ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋œ๋‹ค.
Private-company investment is promoted when long-term goals are clear. ๐Ÿข
Answer
์ด‰์ง„ โ€” ์ด‰์ง„๋˜๋‹ค means to be promoted.
E. ๊ทœ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฃผ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋ฉด ์‚ฌ์—…์ž์˜ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ๋‹ค.
If regulations change often, business operatorsโ€™ uncertainty increases. ๐ŸŽฒ
Answer
์ฆ๊ฐ€ โ€” ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋‹ค means to increase.
F. ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ณด๊ธ‰์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ธ์ œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
The government provided tax benefits to expand green energy adoption. ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
ํ˜œํƒ โ€” ์„ธ์ œ ํ˜œํƒ means tax benefit.
G. ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉด ์ •์ฑ…์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์„ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If citizen participation increases, policy reliability can be strengthened. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
๊ฐ•ํ™” โ€” ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๋‹ค means to be strengthened.
H. ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ „ํ™˜์€ ์‚ฐ์—… ๊ตฌ์กฐ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊นŒ์ง€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ๋‹ค.
Energy transition includes changes in industrial structure as well. ๐Ÿญ
Answer
ํฌํ•จ โ€” ํฌํ•จํ•˜๋‹ค means to include.
I. ๊ณต์ •ํ•œ ๋ณด์ƒ ์—†์ด๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Without fair compensation, local conflict may intensify. ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Answer
์‹ฌํ™” โ€” ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋‹ค means to deepen or intensify.
J. ์ •์ฑ…์˜ ์ง€์†์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ดˆ๋‹น์  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Bipartisan cooperation is needed to secure policy continuity. ๐Ÿค
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ€” ์ดˆ๋‹น์  ํ˜‘๋ ฅ means bipartisan cooperation.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์ œ๋„์  ์ง€์› โ†’ institutional support
  • ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ โ†’ local residents
  • ์ˆ˜์šฉ์„ฑ โ†’ acceptance
  • ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€๋‹ค โ†’ to become lower
  • ์ „ํ™˜ ๋น„์šฉ โ†’ transition cost
  • ํ˜•ํ‰์„ฑ โ†’ equity; fairness
  • ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์—… โ†’ private company
  • ์ด‰์ง„๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be promoted
  • ๊ทœ์ œ โ†’ regulation
  • ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ โ†’ uncertainty
  • ์„ธ์ œ ํ˜œํƒ โ†’ tax benefit
  • ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be strengthened
  • ํฌํ•จํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to include
  • ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to deepen; intensify
  • ์ดˆ๋‹น์  ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ bipartisan cooperation
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก A technically possible energy plan can still fail without social acceptance and stable policy support.

Exercise 5 โ€” Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

A. ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ์ด ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
A projectโ€™s feasibility is not automatically secured just because it is green. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
ํ™•๋ณด โ€” โŒ green = automatically feasible โ†’ โœ… feasibility requires real review of cost, technology, and conditions.
B. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹ผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The cheapest method is not always the one with high economic viability. ๐Ÿท๏ธ
Answer
๋†’์€ โ€” โŒ economic viability = cheapness โ†’ โœ… quality, maintenance cost, risk, and benefit also matter.
C. ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์™€ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋œป์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค.
Renewable energy and green energy should not be understood as completely the same meaning. ๐Ÿ”
Answer
์ดํ•ด โ€” โŒ identical terms โ†’ โœ… ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ is a specific category, while ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ is broader.
D. ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜๋ฉด ์ „๋ ฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If intermittency is ignored, power-supply stability may be undermined. โšก
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ํ›ผ์† โ€” โŒ intermittency is minor โ†’ โœ… it directly affects stable supply and storage needs.
E. ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๊ตญ ํ™•๋Œ€์˜ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค.
It is difficult to prove the feasibility of nationwide expansion with only one local success case. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
์ž…์ฆ โ€” โŒ one pilot proves everything โ†’ โœ… scale, grid capacity, finance, and regulation still matter.
F. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„๋Š” ์ €์žฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ๊ฐœ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Technical limitations can be partly compensated for with storage technology and grid improvement. ๐Ÿ”‹
Answer
๋ณด์™„ โ€” ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋‹ค means to compensate for or supplement a weakness.
G. ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŽธ์ต์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ ํ‰๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If long-term benefits are not considered, economic viability evaluation may be distorted. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
์™œ๊ณก โ€” Cost-only thinking can distort the evaluation.
H. ์ฃผ๋ฏผ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์„ฑ์ด ๋‚ฎ์œผ๋ฉด ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์‹œ์„ค๋„ ์ง€์—ญ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If resident acceptance is low, even green facilities can intensify local conflict. ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ
Answer
์‹ฌํ™” โ€” Social feasibility matters; clean technology still occupies real places.
I. ํƒ€๋‹นํ•œ ์ •์ฑ…์€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ํšจ๊ณผ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณธ๋‹ค.
A valid policy examines environmental effects, economic viability, and technical stability comprehensively. ๐Ÿงญ
Answer
์ข…ํ•ฉ โ€” ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‹ค is the analytical stance of this lesson.
J. ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ํ˜„์‹ค์  ๋„์ž…์—๋Š” ์ด์ƒ๊ณผ ์กฐ๊ฑด์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Realistic adoption of green energy requires balance between ideals and conditions. โš–๏ธ
Answer
๊ท ํ˜• โ€” The best analysis is optimistic but not naรฏve: climate goals need practical conditions.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ โ†’ environmentally friendly
  • ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ โ†’ feasibility; validity
  • ํ™•๋ณด๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be secured
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ โ†’ economic viability
  • ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to understand
  • ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ โ†’ renewable energy
  • ๊ฐ„ํ—์„ฑ โ†’ intermittency
  • ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ โ†’ supply stability
  • ํ›ผ์†๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be undermined
  • ์„ฑ๊ณต ์‚ฌ๋ก€ โ†’ success case
  • ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to prove
  • ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to compensate for
  • ์™œ๊ณก๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be distorted
  • ์ฃผ๋ฏผ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์„ฑ โ†’ resident acceptance
  • ์‹ฌํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to intensify
  • ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‹ค โ†’ to examine comprehensively
  • ๊ท ํ˜• โ†’ balance
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก Pitfall patrol: do not confuse climate value with automatic feasibility, or low price with true economic viability.
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๐ŸŽ‰ Excellent work โ€” you can now discuss ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ (the feasibility of green energy) with both hope and discipline: climate benefits, cost logic, storage, grid stability, and social acceptance all in one clean analytical toolkit. ๐ŸŒฑโšก