Environmental technology

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Environmental technology (abbreviated as envirotech) or green technology (abbreviated as greentech) or

[edit]Examples

 Biofiltration

 Biosphere Technology

 Bioremediation

 Composting toilet

 Desalination

 Doubly-fed electric machine

 Energy Conservation

 Energy Saving Modules

 Hydrogen fuel cell

 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

 Solar power

 Thermal depolymerization
[edit]Recycling

Recycling is a Worldwide Phenomenon, which is a basic application towards the concept of Green Technology.
It shows and encourages people to reuse items that can be reusable. Items like saving cans of food or drinks,
Paper etc have been encouraged by the governing bodies around the world, to be recycled so that it can be
used in the future for several other purposes. It can thus help protect the environment and cause less
waste/pollution.[1]

[edit]Water Purification
Water purification: The whole idea of having dirt/germ/pollution free water flowing throughout the environment.
Many other phenomenons lead from this concept of purification of water. Water pollution is the main enemy of
this concept, and various campaigns and activists have been organized around the world to help purify water.
Considering the amount of water usage that is under current consumptions, this Concept is of utter Importance.
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[edit]Air Purification
Air Purification: basic and common green plants can be grown indoors to keep air fresh because all plants
remove CO2 and convert it into oxygen. The best examples are: Dypsis lutescens,Sansevieria trifasciata,
and Epipremnum aureum.[3]

[edit]Sewage treatment
Sewage treatment is a concept that is really close to Water Purification. Sewage treatments are very important
as it purifies water in levels of its pollution. The more the water is polluted, it's not used for anything, the least
polluted water is supplied to places where water is used affluently. It may lead to vaious other concepts of
environmental protection, sustainability etc.[4]

[edit]Environmental remediation
Environmental remediation is the removal of pollutants or contaminants for the general protection of the
environment. This is accomplished by various chemical, biological, and bulk movement methods, in conjunction
with environmental monitoring. (encyclopedia of medical concepts) [5]

[edit]Solid waste management

[edit]Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that can be replenished easily. For years we have been using sources like wood,
sun, water, etc. for means for producing energy. Energy that can be produced by natural objects like wood,
sun, wind, etc. is considered to be renewable. [7]

[edit]eGain forecasting
Egain forecasting is a method using forecasting technology to predict the future weather's impact on a building.
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 By adjusting the heat based on the weather forecast, the system eliminates redundant use of heat, thus
reducing the energy consumption and the emission of greenhouse gases.[9]

[edit]Energy Conservation
Energy conservation is the utilization of devices that require smaller amounts of energy in order to reduce the
consumption of electricity. Reducing the use of electricity causes less fossil fuels to be burned to provide that
electricity.

[edit]Alternative and clean power

Principles:
  Green syndicalism

 Sustainability

 Sustainable design

 Sustainable engineering

Scientists continue to search for clean energy alternatives to our current power production methods. Some
technologies such as anaerobic digestion produce renewable energy from waste materials. The global
reduction of greenhouse gases is dependent on the adoption of energy conservation technologies at industrial
level as well as this clean energy generation. That includes using unleadedgasoline, solar
energy and alternative fuel vehicles, including plug-in hybrid and hybrid electric vehicles.

Since electric motors consume 60% of all electricity generated, [citation needed] advanced energy efficient electric
motor (and electric generator) technology that are cost effective to encourage their application, such as
the brushless wound-rotor doubly-fed electric machine and energy saving module, can reduce the amount
of carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) that would otherwise be introduced to the atmosphere, if
electricity is generated using fossil fuels. Greasestock is an event held yearly in Yorktown Heights, New
York which is one of the largest showcases of environmental technology in the United States.[10][11][12][13][14]

[edit]Criticism

Extreme radical environmentalism, exhibited in publications such as Green Anarchy, criticizes the concept of
environmental technology.[citation needed] From this viewpoint, technology is seen as a system rather than a specific
physical tool. Technology, accordingly, requires the exploitation of the environment through the creation and
extraction of resources, and the exploitation of people through labor, specialization and the division of labor.
Thus, no “neutral” form of technology; things are always created in a certain context with certain aims and
functions. Green technology is rejected as an attempt to reform this exploitative system, merely changing it on
the surface to make it seem environmentally friendly, despite continued unsustainable levels of human and
natural exploitation.