Green energy is crucial for the environment as it replaces the negative influence of fossil fuels with more environment-friendly alternatives
FREMONT, CA: Green energy is any form of energy produced from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, or water. Though there are many distinctions between renewable and green energy, it is often derived from renewable energy sources.
The most important feature of these energy resources is that they do not impact the environment by emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
How Does it Work?
Green energy is generally derived from renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and hydroelectric power as a source of energy. These technologies uniquely generate energy by harnessing the sun's energy with solar panels, wind turbines, or water flow.
What Does it Mean?
A resource cannot generate pollution like fossil fuels to be classified as green energy. Power generation that scalds organic material from sustainable forests may be renewable, but it is not needfully green due to the CO2 released during the burning procedure. This means not all renewable energy sources are environmentally friendly.
Green energy sources are regularly renewed naturally, unlike fossil fuels like natural gas and coal, which can take many years to generate. Green sources also avoid destroying ecosystems by preventing mining and drilling operations.
Types of Green Energy
Hydropower
This type of green energy, known as hydroelectric power, produces electricity through water flow in rivers, streams, dams, and other water bodies. Hydropower can be produced on a small-scale utilizing water flowing through pipes in the home or from evaporation, rainfall, or ocean tides.
Geothermal Energy
For thousands of years, geothermal energy has been used for bathing in hot springs, and now it can be used to power turbines and generate electricity. This green power uses thermal energy stored just beneath the earth's crust. While accessing this resource requires drilling, generating concerns about the environmental impact, and if accessed into can become a massive resource.
Biofuels
Instead of burning biomass, such organic materials can be converted into fuels like ethanol and biodiesel. Biofuels, which supplied only 2.7% of the world's transportation fuel in 2010, are expected to provide more than 25% of worldwide transportation fuel demand by 2050.
