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    This document discusses India's energy crisis in both rural and urban sectors. It notes that while rural areas rely heavily on traditional biomass fuels like wood and animal dung, urban areas use more commercial energy from industries, fuel distribution, and electricity grids. However, both sectors face energy shortages. In rural areas the shortage stems from a lack of access to commercial fuels, while rapidly increasing demand from population growth, development, and changing lifestyles outstrips energy supply increases in urban areas. This energy crisis poses a challenge to India's continued growth if not adequately addressed through developing more energy resources and decreasing consumption.

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    Environmental Studies: Energy Crisis – Urban and Rural Sectors

    Short answer Questions:


    Q1. What is energy?

    Ans. Energy is something that can produce heat, power life, move objects, or produce electricity.

    Q2. How does energy help us?

    Ans. Energy is an indispensable ingredient of economic development, at the same time is a


    dominant ingredient and contributed to most environmental problems from a local to a global level.

    Q3. What are conventional energy sources?

    Ans. Firewood, charcoal, coal, oil, natural gas, petroleum and kerosene are conventional energy
    sources.

    Q4. What are non-conventional energy sources?

    Ans. The sun, wind, waves, tides and geothermal energy are non-conventional energy sources.

    Q5. What can be used as alternative sources of energy?

    Ans. The alternative sources of energy include solar energy, wind energy, hydro energy, tidal energy,
    geothermal energy and biomass energy.

    Q6. What are the sources of energy in rural areas?

    Ans. Biomass energy derived from plants, trees and animals are important sources of energy in rural
    areas
    Long Answer Questions:
    Q1. How is population explosion related to energy crisis?

    Ans. The major reason for population growth in urban areas is there is a huge gap between demand
    and supply in India’s population explosion, the comparison between rural and urban areas when
    taken into consideration is that there is more rural people in urban areas than there is urbanised
    people in urban areas, generally due to labour force and employment opportunities, to specify there
    is more presence of growth in urban areas than there is in rural areas, because of this commercial
    energy consumption in the transport sector grew at a rate of 4.9% pern annum in the 1980s and a
    stifling increase of 5.4% per annum during the 1990s, consumption of electricity is a huge demand in
    the country since the advance in technological enhancements and urbanisation, which further
    aggravates the problem on energy crisis in the future.

    Q2. Discuss the energy resources of India in detail.

    Ans. Energy resources of India can be broadly divided into two forms – conventional and non-
    conventional sources of energy. Firewood is a common source of energy used by man throughout
    history, till recently charcoal was a major source of energy in urban areas but has slowly diminished
    as technological advances began to take place which has largely been replaced by liquid and gaseous
    fuels like kerosene and petroleum gas. Fossil fuels like coal oil and natural gas are also used as
    conventional energy resources throughout the country. Biomass sources of energy are mostly used
    in urban areas which are derived from trees, plants and animals. Non-conventional or renewable
    energy sources like the sun, wind, waves, tides and geothermal energy are still in stages
    development in the country though some forms of it are already being utilised like Solar Panels,
    Hydroelectrical dams, Nuclear powerplants. However, development of windmills and geothermal
    plants are still in development stages.

    Q3. How are availability of energy and future growth of a nation linked together?

    Ans. In developing countries the urban and rural patterns of energy consumption are significantly
    different, the rural economy is subsistence based and has little access to commercial fuels and
    services. Animal and human muscle power contributes much of the mechanical energy for
    agriculture and transportation. People in rural areas rely heavily on traditional biomass fuels – wood,
    crop residues and animal dung. In contrast, city dwellers by and large use commercial energy. Urban
    areas have sizeable industries, fuel distribution and power supply from electricity grids. The
    availability of energy resources can be of value to the future generations through correct
    optimization of resources, decreasing the use of conventional resources and instalments of
    renewable energy technology can further advance a country making it cleaner, less polluting,
    prevention of global warming etc., this not only advances a nation in terms of development wise but
    also instils upon a nation to a better livelihood by protecting and conserving the biodiversity.
    Q4. How is energy crisis related to development of transportation sectors?

    Ans. Ieh noh iakane ka question

    Q5. Discuss energy crisis in rural and urban sectors?

    Ans. Despite the impressive increase in the installed capacity, the electric power supply continues to
    remain short of demand. The demand projection made in the 16 th Electric Power Survey conducted
    by the CEA (Central Electricity Authority) indicated that over 100,000 MW additional generation
    capacity needs to be added by 2012 to bridge the gap.

    The total energy shortage during 2000-2001 was 39,816 million units amounting to 7.8% peak
    demand and the peak shortage was 10,157 MW amounting to 12.6% of the peak demands. The peak
    shortage during April to June 2017 has reduced. However, it is a matter of concern that in spite of
    the growing demand for power, the annual per capita consumption of India at about 350 kWh is
    among the lowest in the country.

    Indias Energy requirement is increasing sharply because of rapid industrialization, mechanisation,


    commercialisation, urbanization, population growth and changing lifestyles and aspirations of the
    people. As the supply of energy cannot keep pace with the rising demand, we experience energy
    shortages in our everyday lives of petrol, electricity, cooking gas and fuelwood.

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