New Renewable Energy Sources

New Energy Sources

• Conventional or traditional energy sources are available in limited quantity on the one hand and on the other hand, their use creates one type of pollution or the other.

• Hence the need of energy should be fulfilled by alternate sources. These are also called renewable or non-polluting energy sources.

• As compared to polluting sources, the alternate energy sources are abundantly available in nature and they do not produce large amounts of pollution if used for various applications.

• Awareness drives monetary benefits in terms of subsidies, tax rebates or exemptions, more funding and encouragement for harnessing as well as improving the efficiency of non¬polluting sources of energy is needed to be done on war footing.

• With more and more population, there will be more and more need of industries, urbanization (transportation, cooking and household uses) will need more energy on a continuous basis.

• Faster and safer transportation will require more energy. The requirements can be met with use of solar energy, wind energy and biomass energy to a large extent.

• At suitable places, other sources like tides, waves, geothermal energy can be used in the 21^st century.