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Sona 17CIVBE109 SE435430018070
Sona 17CIVBE109 SE435430018070
RESOURCE
INTRODUCTION:
• Energy is the capacity to do work and is required for life
processes.
• An energy resource is something that can produce heat,
power life, move objects, or produce electricity.
• Some of these energy resources contain coal, oil, wood,
or gas and others are renewable resources such as wind,
solar, hydroelectric.
• Early humans had modest energy requirements, mostly
food and fuel for fires to cook and keep warm.
• In today's society, humans consume as much as 110 times
as much energy per person as early humans.
TYPES OF ENERGY
RESOURCES
• Based on continual utility, natural resources can be
classified into two types:
• Renewable energy sources: These resources can be
generated continuously and are inexhaustible.
• Ex: Solar energy, Wind energy, Hydro power, tidal energy,
Geo-thermal energy.
• Non-renewable energy sources: Non-renewable energy
sources are natural resources, that cannot be regenerated
once they are exhausted. They cannot be used again.
• Ex: Coal, Petroleum, Natural gas and Nuclear fuels
Non Renewable
Energy
NUCLEAR ENERGY
• Nuclear energy is derived from nucleus of an atom.
• Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release
nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is
then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a
nuclear power plant.
• Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fusion,
nuclear fission and nuclear decay.
• The possibility of generating electricity from nuclear
fusion is still at a research.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
1. SOLAR ENERGY
The energy that is directly got from sun is called solar
energy. Some of the applications of solar energy are
SOLAR CELLS
A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell, is an electrical device that
converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the
photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical
phenomenon.
SOLAR CELLS
SOLAR PUMPS
SOLAR COOKER
SOLAR WATER
HEATER
SOLAR FURNACE
SOLAR POWER PLANT
WIND ENERGY
Wind energy is a form of
solar energy. Wind
energy (or wind power) describes the
process by which wind is used to
generate electricity. Wind turbines
convert the kinetic energy in
the wind into mechanical power. A
generator can convert mechanical power
into electricity.
TIDAL ENERGY
• Tidal power or tidal energy is a form of hydropower that
converts the energy obtained from tides into useful forms of
power, mainly electricity.
• Although not yet widely used, tidal energy has potential for
future electricity generation.
• Tides are more predictable than the wind and the sun.
HYDROELECTRIC
ENERGY
GEOTHERMAL
ENERGY
• Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth. It's clean
and sustainable.
• Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow
ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles
beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the
extremely high temperatures of molten rock called
magma.
• It’s a renewable energy source, meaning it’s inexhaustible
to humans.
• It’s also a green source of energy, meaning it does not
emit greenhouse gasses that are hazardous to human and
environmental health.
BIOMASS ENERGY
• Biomass is organic material that comes from plants and
animals, and it is a renewable source of energy.
• Biomass contains stored energy from the sun. Plants absorb
the sun's energy in a process called photosynthesis.
• When biomass is burned, the chemical energy in biomass is
released as heat.
• It is used to raise steam, which, in turn, is used as a by-product
to generate electricity.
• It has become popular among coal power stations, which
switch from coal to biomass in order to convert to renewable
energy generation without wasting existing generating plant
and infrastructure.