connect2earth - your green online community

prajwal

We're not out of energy: we're just exploiting the existing non-renewable resources

Posted on 15 Apr 2009 16:19

In reply to Renewable energy options in your local community

The energy crisis that is almost sure to be faced in the near future as well as the shortage of energy at present is not actually because we're going out of energy.It's just because we're using the same resource day by day and second after second without acknowledging an alternative (or minimal use). We still have our sun, we have wind and we...

More...

Back to discussion

Replies to this message:

plato

Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

Posted on 20 Apr 2009 08:38

In reply to We're not out of energy: we're just exploiting the existing non-renewable resources

Hi Prajwal,

I agree with you, we are not running out of energy, it is just fossil fuels that are exhaustible. Unfortunately, at present, oil, gas and coal are the energy source for the most of the energy we use for electricity, transport, buildings, etc.

In my opinion, though, what is really worrying is not that (sooner...

More...

Nadine McC..

Sustainability...

Posted on 29 Apr 2009 10:04

In reply to We're not out of energy: we're just exploiting the existing non-renewable resources

EXPERT COMMENT

I agree prajwal! Of course we’re not out of energy (I remember the 1st rule of thermodynamics from school – energy can neither be created or destroyed, it can only change forms) – but we are finding it harder to get to the highly concentrated carriers of energy such as oil – and the planet can no longer afford the extra greenhouse gas emissio...

More...

Related discussions

Zeitgeist: a movie to watch
Pure water for all ....
AEGEE contest - European Day of Environment

Top contributors

Sustainable - A life's ethics

radiance, Alejandro Izcoa, santiago.paez, nidhi.gupta, miguel.umana, babudit, Laura Dias, _BB_, rajsuryansh, ga_ramirez

Did you know that... ?

A person in a low income country consumes less than a tenth of the energy of a person in high income country
Buildings are responsible for about 15% of the world’s emissions, and domestic housing is the single course most important source of greenhouse gases.
The internal combustion engine, the basis for the majority of road vehicles worldwide, was produced commercially more than 150 years ago. Electric vehicles are not automatically more sustainable – it depends which source of energy it is charged with.
Renewable sources of energy are naturally replenishing and therefore, if sustainably harvested, are virtually inexhaustible. 13% of energy demand in 2006 was from renewable sources.
Solar panels currently only capture 10% of the sun’s energy, but innovation is rapidly increasing this figure.