About this app
Renewable energy is used for home heating and cooling, hot water, and even cooking. ... Solar panels are great for generating electricity, but they're just one of many alternative power sources for the home.
Residential Wind Power. Similar to the enormous wind turbines, but on a smaller scale to power your home.
Hybrid. ...
Geothermal. ...
Micro hydropower. ...
Solar Panels or Solar Shingles.
In Green Energy 101, we will discuss and show you ways to use green energy. With the education articles and programs offered, you will learn about the types and uses for Renewable/Green Energy.
Remember over the past 30 years, research and development in green energy have grown, producing hundreds of ensuring new technologies that can decrease our addiction to coal, oil, and natural gas. What is green energy? What makes it a more desirable option than fossil fuels?
Green energy defined
Green energy comes from natural sources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, plants, algae, and geothermal energy. Green Energy sources are renewable, naturally replenished. Fossil fuels are a limited resource that takes millions of years to form and continue to decrease with use.
Renewable energy sources also have much less impact on the environment than fossil fuels, which generate pollutants such as greenhouse gases as a by-product, this contribution to climate change. Obtaining access to fossil fuels requires either mining or drilling deep into the Earth, often in ecologically delicate locations.
Green energy uses energy sources that are readily accessible, even in rural and isolated areas that might not have access to electricity. Advancements in renewable energy technologies have reduced the cost of solar panels, wind turbines, and other sources of green energy; this puts the ability to generate electricity in the hands of the people rather than those of oil, gas, coal, and utility corporations.
Green energy can replace fossil fuels in all major areas of use, including electricity, water, and space heating and fuel for motor vehicles.
Types of green energy
Research into renewable, non-polluting energy sources is advancing at such a fast pace, it's hard to keep track of the many types of green energy that are now in development. Here are 6 of the most well-known types of green energy:
Solar power - The most common type of renewable energy, solar power typically produced using photovoltaic cells, which capture sunlight and turn it into electricity. Solar energy used to heat buildings and water, provide natural lighting, and cook food. Solar technologies have become reasonable enough to power everything from small hand-held devices to whole neighborhoods.
Wind power - Airflow on the Earth's surface is used to drive turbines, with more powerful winds producing more energy. High-altitude sites and areas just offshore manage to provide the best conditions for harvesting the most powerful winds.
Hydropower - Hydroelectric power, hydropower produced by the Earth's water cycle, including evaporation, rainfall, tides, and the force of water running through a dam. Hydropower depends on rainfall, the more rainfall, the higher levels of energy it produces.
Geothermal energy - Just under the Earth's crust are large amounts of thermal energy, which begins from both the original formation of the planet and the radioactive breakdown of minerals. Humans have used geothermal energy in the form of hot springs for millennia for bathing, and now it's being used to produce electricity.
Biomass - Recently-living natural materials like wood waste, sawdust, and flammable agricultural wastes are turned into energy with fewer greenhouse gas discharges than petroleum-based fuel sources. That's because these substances, known as biomass, contain stored energy from the sun.
Biofuels - Instead of burning biomass to generate energy, sometimes these renewable natural materials are transformed into fuel. Notable examples include ethanol and biodiesel.
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