RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOURCES
Our power, our future
Renewable energy resource
An energy resource that is replaced rapidly by natural
processes.
Some examples of renewable energy resources are
sunlight, hydropower (water falling through a dam), and
wood.
When you use some sunlight to warm your back, more
is made almost immediately available. Water above the
dam is continually replaced by rainfall.
If you chop down a tree and burn its wood in your
campfire, it takes awhile for the forest to grow enough to
replace that wood, but it will happen within your lifetime.
Types of Renewable resources
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RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOURCES
Our power, our future
Solar energy
Solar power is energy that is created by the sun and
is the power from it, used in order to produce energy
for many things here on earth.
This type of energy is also clean, renewable and
doesn’t cost anything.
Solar energy is growing in popularity because it’s the
most abundant and the most cost effective energy
source we have.
The amount of energy the sun gives to the earth in
one day, can power the whole planet and its energy
needs for an entire year.
Solar Energy
Advantages: Disadvantages:
Solar energy is non- [Link] cells/panels, etc.
polluting. can be very expensive.
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Solar cells require very little
maintenance and they last created at night.
a long time.
3. Although we cannot
utilize the power of the sun
Solar powered lights and
other solar powered at night or on stormy, cloudy
products are also very easy days, etc.,
to install
Wind Energy
Advantages: Disadvantages:
Wind energy is friendly to the [Link] main disadvantage regarding wind
surrounding environment, as no fossil power is down to the winds unreliability
fuels are burnt to generate electricity factor.
from wind energy. [Link] turbines generally produce allot
Wind turbines take up less space than less electricity than the average fossil
the average power station.. fuelled power station, requiring multiple
wind turbines to be built in order to make
Newer technologies are making the an impact.
extraction of wind energy much more [Link] turbine construction can be very
efficient. y. expensive and costly to surrounding
Wind turbines are a great resource to wildlife during the build process.
generate energy in remote locations, [Link] noise pollution from commercial
such as mountain communities and wind turbines is sometimes similar to a
remote countryside. small jet engine.
Another advantage of wind energy is that [Link] and/or petitions usually confront
when combined with solar electricity, this any proposed wind farm development.
energy source is great for developed and People feel the countryside should be left
developing countries to provide a steady, in tact for everyone to enjoy it's beauty .
reliable supply of electricity.
Advantages:
Hydro Power Plant
Disadvantages:
1. Once a dam is constructed, electricity 1. Dams are extremely expensive to build
can be produced at a constant rate. and must be built to a very high standard.
2. If electricity is not needed, the sluice 2. The high cost of dam construction
gates can be shut, stopping electricity means that they must operate for many
generation. The water can be saved for decades to become profitable.
use another time when electricity 3. The flooding of large areas of land
demand is high. means that the natural environment is
3. Dams are designed to last many destroyed.
decades and so can contribute to the 4. People living in villages and towns that
generation of electricity for many years / are in the valley to be flooded, must move
decades. out. This means that they lose their farms
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that energy can be stored until needed, 5. The building of large dams can cause
when the water is released to produce serious geological damage. For example,
electricity. the building of the Hoover Dam in the USA
5. When in use, electricity produced by triggered a number of earth quakes and
dam systems do not produce green has depressed the earth’s surface at its
house gases. They do not pollute the location.
atmosphere.
Biomass energy
Biomass, a renewable energy source, is
biological material from living, or recently living
organisms,such as wood, waste, (hydrogen) gas,
and alcohol fuels.
Biomass is commonly plant matter grown to
generate electricity or produce heat.
It also includes plant or animal matter used for
production of fibers or chemicals.
Biomass may also include biodegradable wastes that
can be burnt as fuel.
Tidal Energy
Tidal power, also called tidal energy, is a form of
hydropower that converts the energy of tides into
electricity or other useful forms of power.
Tidal power is the only form of energy which derives
directly from the relative motions of the Earth–Moon
system.
Tidal forces produced by the Moon and Sun, in
combination with Earth's rotation, are responsible for
the generation of the tides
Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is thermal energy
generated and stored in the Earth.
Thermal energy is energy that determines
the temperature of matter.
Earth's geothermal energy originates from
the original formation of the planet, from
radioactive decay of minerals, from volcanic
activity, and from solar energy absorbed at
the surface.
Jatropha curcas
This plant will grow in wastelands.
Oil content varies from 28% to 30% and
80% extraction, one hectare of plantation
will give 400 to 600 litres of oil if the soil
is average.
The oily seeds are processed into oil,
which may be used directly ("Straight
Vegetable Oil") to fuel combustion engines
or we can produce biodiesel.
Green algae
Like all green plants, green algae produce food through the
process of photosynthesis, which involves the conversion of
sunlight into electrical energy.
Harnessing the electricity from photosynthesis was the big
challenge that the scientists faced.
In order to harness the electricity, the scientists stuck the algal
cells with very thin gold needles--on the order of nanometer
thickness (one-millionth of a millimeter).
The cell membranes of the algae simply closed around the gold
needles.
The algae produced electricity via photosynthesis, and the
gold needles relayed the electricity to an external device that
recorded the electricity.
Threats
One day world will become so dark in
the field of energy.
There will be huge demand in electricity.
Changes cannot be done in one or two
days.
Steps to be taken
Aware people about renewable
resources.
All should participate in utilizing
renewable energy sources.
Also the government should
encourage this activity in all
aspects.