Environment Awareness: Applications of Renewable Energy
Environment Awareness: Applications of Renewable Energy
Environment Awareness: Applications of Renewable Energy
Introduction:
Energy is a basic requirement for economic development. Energy is needed
to cook, provide light and heat, drive vehicles and to drive machinery in
industries and many mores. Consumption of energy in all forms has been
steadily rising all over the country.
Law of conservation of energy says that energy can neither be created nor
destroyed. It can only be transformed to one from to another form.
For example, we burn coal to convert the chemical energy stored inside the
coal to convert it to heat. Then we may use that heat to cook.
Sunlight
Wind
Rain
Tides
Waves
Geothermal Heat
Biomass
Wind Energy:
Wind power is not a new development as this power, in the form of
traditional windmills -for grinding corn, pumping water, sailing ships -
have been used for centuries. Now wind power is harnessed to generate
electricity in a larger scale with better technology.
Bio Energy:
Biomass is a renewable energy resource derived from the carbonaceous
waste of various human and natural activities. It is derived from numerous
sources, including the by-products from the wood industry, agricultural
crops, raw material from the forest, household wastes etc. It can be used as
Biogas Plants
Biomass Briquetting
Biomass Gasifiers
Bio Fuel
Unlike other renewable energy sources, biomass can be converted directly
into liquid fuels— biofuels— for our transportation needs (cars, trucks,
buses, airplanes, and trains). The two most common types of biofuels are
ethanol and biodiesel.
Hydro Energy
The potential energy of falling water, captured and converted to
mechanical energy by waterwheels, powered the start of the industrial
revolution
Micro Small and Medium Hydro Power is a reliable, mature and proven
technology. It is non-polluting, and does not involve setting up of large
dams or problems of deforestation, submergence and rehabilitation
Tidal and Ocean Energy
Ocean Energy Oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface, making
them the world's largest solar collectors. Ocean energy draws on the
energy of ocean waves, tides, or on the thermal energy (heat) stored in the
ocean. The sun warms the surface water a lot more than the deep ocean
water, and this temperature difference stores thermal energy.