List of renewable resources and renewable energy resources.

Renewable Resources

What exactly are renewable resources?

Renewable can be defined as:

“capable of being renewed”, or

"capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound management practices"

In other words - resources that can be continually reproduced over a relatively short period of time.

Water

Oxygen

Timber

Fruit and veg

Meat from animals

Fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas

Minerals like copper

These resources are mined and exhausted. The supply of fossil fuel is depleting fast and cannot be reproduced/ renewed.

For this reason, it has become necessary to look for alternatives energy sources.

There are indeed several renewable energy resources that can supply us with electricity and heat.

Solar Energy:

Solar thermal: Produce hot water

Solar photovoltaic: Produce electricity

Wind Energy: Generates electricity by using the wind.

Geothermal: Generates electricity from steam produced by water heated within the earth.

Hydrogen Energy: Use flowing water to generates electricity.

Bio Energy: Use biomass (plant materials, landfill or animal waste) to produce heat or electricity.

Ocean Energy:

Wave Energy: Produce electricity from the power of waves.

Tidal Energy: Traps water in dams to supply to hydropower generators.

Thermal energy conversion: Use solar-heated surface water to produce electricity.

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