What is Renewable Energy or Renewable Resources?
According to Webster's
New Millennium Dictionary of English, Renewable Energy
is defined as "any natural resource that can replenish
itself naturally over time, as [in] wood or solar
energy." In short: Renewable Energy is energy derived
from a source that can be replenished. What does this
include? For starters this includes solar energy, wind
(which is another type of solar energy), water (physical
as in hydro-electric dams and chemical if someone
figures out how to release the hydrogen locked up in
it). But this also includes: bio-diesel and ethanol,
biomass, and geothermal energy.
Fuels like oil, gas,
coal, and other petroleum products are not renewable!
These are the products on which the world has based its
power production and ultimately its economy. Without new
sources of energy the lights go off!
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