TYPES OF RENEWABLE ENERGY DEFINITION

There are few countries

in the world that do not
use wind-generated
Wind Power energy. Often subject to
campaigns to have them
shut down or planning
permission refused, to
many they are a blot on
the landscape that ruins
a perfectly attractive
natural view.

One of the most

intriguing concepts of
renewable energy, and
one being used in the US
today, is harnessing heat
from under the surface
of the planet produced
Geothermal
as a result of geological
processes such as
natural heat loss,
volcanic activity, or from
perfectly normal and
safe processes such as
radioactive decay
 Biofuel is the production
of the types of fuel we
Biofuel & Biomass use in our vehicles
(though normally and
typically diesel) from
plants or other organic
matter rather than from
the fossil fuels extracted
from the ground.
 ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

The optimum siting of wind

The advantages of wind farms is often
power are well- counterintuitive to the
documented . Firstly, needs of the people that will
wind is a constant as it is use the energy it generates.
part of the planet's Wind sources are best out at
natural weather cycles. sea where there are no
There is nowhere on cities, and on large,
Earth untouched by wind, expansive plains (here in the
not at sea or on land. US on large, expansive, flat
ranches) which are far from
the settlements that will
need it.

Geothermal energy is The major disadvantage of

one of, if notthe, cleanest geothermal power is that for
form of energy the most efficient use, they
production available. We are geographically limited.
are feeding off the heat The best use is from areas
generated by the natural close to tectonic plate
motions of the Earth as it boundariesand areas of
spins on its axis high volcanic activity,
 To many, biofuels are a
stopgap at best until we can
find something cleaner and
greener than ethanol. The
Whether burning the energy output of biofuels
organic material itself or and biomass is much lower
resulting substances that than conventional fossil
are processed from the fuels and much greater
breakdown of the raw quantity is needed to
organic material, as it is produce the same energy
organic it is renewable. output