Energy

Crisis and
Alternative
Energy
Resources
 WORDBANK
 Biomass
 Energy Crisis
 Geothermal
 Hydroelectric
power
 Solar Power
 Renewable Energy
 Windpower
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 CONTENTS:
1. ENERGY CRISIS
2. POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO
SOLVE PROBLEM ON
ENERGY CRISIS AND
CLIMATE CHANGE
3. TYPES OF RENEWABLE
ENERGY RESOURCES
4. TYPES OF
HYDROELECTRIC ENERGY
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PLANTS
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ENERGY
CRISIS
Definition and associated
causes and impacts.
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Energy Crisis
 Energy crisis is an
immense problem for
social theory and for
21st century societies.
Problem in the supply of
energy is significant
leading to energy crisis
which then affect the
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economy.
 1. Market manipulation or
monopoly of major petroleum
producers to withhold the
supply which affect the
energy independence and
price.
 2. Government actions like
tax hikes, nationalization of
energy companies, and
regulation of the energy
sector, localized shortage and
war or atttacks by terrorists or
militia.
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 3. Used of fuel and petroleum in
industrial development, in heat
generation, production, commerce,
transportation, and residential
facilities and population growth have
led to a surge in the global demand
for energy that triggered energy
crisis causing soaring in the price of
oil.
 4. Over-consumption, aging
infrastructure, disruption at oil
refineries and port facilities that
restrict fuel supply. Interruptions
to energy supplies are caused by
pipeline failures and other
accidents;
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 5. OPEC (or the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries) has a
great deal to do with the price of
gasoline, both in the United States
and around the world. The
speculation of oil commodities can
also affect the gasoline market;
 6. Global warming caused mainly of
burning fossil fuels, has become
unmistakably important with widespread
melting of ice,noticeable climate changes,
and rising sea levels. Combustion of fossil
fuels such as petroleum, coal, and natural
gas producesgreenhouse gases and other
air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides,
sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds
and heavy metals;

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7. Deaths that are caused by air pollution
are due to products of fossil fuel
combustion. The use of fossil fuels raises
serious environmental concerns. The
burning of fossil fuels producestons of
carbon dioxide (CO2) per year. CO, is a
greenhouse gas that contributes to global
warming and ocean acidification.
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SOLUTIONS
Solving problems on Energy
Crisis and Climate Change
 ⪢ There are substitutes for
petroleum fuel that can be used
with the same technology we
use today, takes no energy to
produce, has no noxious residue,
and has no unexpected
consequences. Unlike fossil fuel
based technologies, wind, water
and solar power does not lead to
any harmful emissions during
operation.

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 ⪢ A global movement
towards low-carbon
renewable energy
generation is
underway to help
reduce global
greenhouse-gas
emissions.
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 ⪢ To move to an electrical
economy, producing
electricity from renewable
energy such as sunlight,
hydro, and wind power,
tidal power, and then
replacing as much of other
fuels as possible by
electricity.

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 ⪢ Everyone must hope to
preserve the Earth for our
descendants, and must act
now. Earth must be
renewed then energy must
be renewable.
Governments around the
world must institute
policies aimed at
increasing use of
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RENEWABL
E ENERGY
 What is Renewable
Energy?
Renewable energy - Solar power,
wind power, hydroelectric power,
biomass, and geothermal power can
provide energy without the planet-
warming effects of fossil fuels. Solar
and wind are renewable energy that
don't emit carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases thus lessen
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 TYPES OF
RENEWABLE
ENERGY
SOURCES
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 1. HYDROPOWER
OR
HYDROELECTRICI
TY

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 2. POTENTIAL
ENERGY

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TYPES OF
HYDROELECT
RIC ENERGY
PLANTS
 1.
Impoundment
facility

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 2. Run-of-
river
facilities or
diversion
facility

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 3. Pumped-
storage facility

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 WIND
POWER
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 Wind Power. Harnessing the wind as
a source of energy started more than
7,000 years ago. Now, electricity-
generating wind turbines are
spreading around the globe. China,
U.S., and Germany are the leading
wind energy producers.

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 SOLAR
POWER

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 Solar power is transforming energy
from sunlight into electricity, either
directly using photovoltaics (PV),
indirectly using concentrated solar
power, or a combination of both.
Potent solar power systems use
lenses or mirrors and solar tracking
systems to focus a large area of
sunlight into a small beam.

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 SOLAR
PHOTO
VOLTAIC
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 Solar Photo Voltaic is rapidly
becoming an inexpensive, low-carbon
technology to harness renewable
energy from the Sun. Thecurrent
largest photovoltaic power station in
the world is the Pavagada Solar Park,
Karnataka, in India which produces a
generation capacity of 2050 MW.

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BIOMASS
ENERGY
 Biomass energy includes biofuels
such as ethanol and biodiesel, wood
and wood waste, biogas from
landfills, and municipal solidwaste.

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 GEOTHERMA
ENERGY

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 Geothermal energy has been used
for thousands of some countries for
cooking and heating. Geothermal
energy is fromthe Earth's internal
heat.

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