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Sources of Energy

The document discusses various sources of energy, highlighting the distinction between renewable and non-renewable sources. Renewable sources like hydropower, solar, wind, and geothermal are environmentally friendly but have seasonal limitations, while non-renewable sources can produce energy year-round but contribute to pollution and environmental hazards. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of energy conservation and sustainable usage to mitigate negative impacts.

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Sources of Energy

The document discusses various sources of energy, highlighting the distinction between renewable and non-renewable sources. Renewable sources like hydropower, solar, wind, and geothermal are environmentally friendly but have seasonal limitations, while non-renewable sources can produce energy year-round but contribute to pollution and environmental hazards. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of energy conservation and sustainable usage to mitigate negative impacts.

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Sources of energy

With the advancement of technology, various


innovations emerged, but the base of many of
those innovations is energy. Energy can neither be
created nor destroyed which means people had to
change an existing energy into electrical or
whatever energy they wanted. There are many
ways humans can produce energy like
hydropower, fossil energy, geothermal energy,
nuclear energy, wind energy and solar energy.
Some of these sources are non–renewable which
means they are not reusable.
Hydropower, solar, wind and geothermal energy
will never run out, but production mass is lower
compared to non-renewable energy sources.
These two energy sources have both advantages
and disadvantages.
Renewable energy sources are environmentally
friendly and the initial cost is lower than that of
non-renewable energy sources. Non-renewable
energy sources can produce energy throughout
the year. Although these sources have lots of
disadvantages.

Renewable energy sources are limited to some


seasons of the year. In winter solar energy
production is lower because of low sunlight. In
drought seasons hydropower energy production is
lower because of low water levels in the reservoir.
Non-renewable energy sources are polluting the
environment. Burning of fossil fuel produces
carbon dioxide, methane (CH4), nitrous oxide, and
fluorinated gases which increase global
temperature. Nuclear energy is very harmful, one
single mistake can blow up the power plant
making harmful radiation. Chernobyl and
Fukushima's disasters are the best examples of
nuclear power plant explosions. Even though
these disasters happened about 20 years ago the
area is still not suitable for human life.

We should save energy to minimize pollution. We


can turn off unwanted electrical appliances when
they are not in use. We should use electrical
efficient appliances rather than using old and
highly electricity consuming appliances.
So my conclusion is energy is very useful to us. It
is something that cannot be created and it is very
hard to produce. Even if it has some
disadvantages like environmental pollution we
can minimize them by using them sustainably.

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