A presentation on Alternate Source of Energy!

1. Ch2. Alternate Sources of Energy
- Yogesh Kamath

2. BENEFITS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY OPTIONS
• Help the environment
Use of renewable energy helps save the environment from further degradation and
gives it an opportunity to regenerate.
• Provide sustainable fuel systems
Afforestation combined with the introduction of energy-efficient devices, can help to
create a sustainable fuel-use system within the rural community and sustain the
ecological balance of a region
• Provide better lighting
Better lighting enables the poor to stretch their period of economic activity; their
children can help them in daily chores and then study in the evenings.
• Benefit women
Lower dependency on fuel wood and other household fuel sources reduces the
drudgery of women by shortening or eliminating the distances they travel for fuel
collection.
• Benefit human health
Use of improved cook stoves and biogas plants, for example, helps reduce or eliminate
health problems associated with using conventional cook stoves, including respiratory
diseases and eye problems.

3. What options we have?
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power stations use nuclear
fission to generate energy by the
reaction of uranium-235 inside a
nuclear reactor. The heat released,
heats water to create steam, which
spins a turbine generator, producing
electricity.

4. Pros
• The energy content of a kilogram of uranium or thorium is equivalent to
about 3.5 million kilograms of coal. (nuclear fuel is reprocessed and fully
utilized)
• The cost of making nuclear power is about the same as making coal power,
which is considered very inexpensive.
• Coal mining is the second most dangerous occupation in the United States.
Nuclear energy is much safer than coal derived energy
• Fast breeder reactors have the potential to power humans on earth for
billions of years, making it sustainable.

5. Biomass
• Biomass production involves
using garbage or other
renewable resources such as
corn or other vegetation to
generate electricity.

6. Advantages
• Biomass production can be used to
burn organic waste products
resulting from agriculture.
• Biomass is abundant on Earth and is
generally renewable.
• When methods of biomass
production other than direct
combustion of plant mass are used,
such as fermentation, there is little
effect on the environment.

7. Hydroelectric Energy
• In hydro energy, the
gravitational descent of a river
is compressed from a long run
to a single location with a dam
or a flume.
• This creates a location where
concentrated pressure and
flow can be used to turn
turbines or water wheels,
which drive a mechanical mill
or an electric generator.

8. Advantages
• Hydroelectric power stations can promptly
increase to full capacity
• Electricity can be generated constantly, so
long as sufficient water is available.
• Hydroelectric power produces no primary
waste or pollution.
• Hydropower is a renewable resource.

9. Wind Power
This type of energy harnesses
the power of the wind to propel
the blades of wind turbines.
These turbines cause the
rotation of magnets, which
creates electricity. Wind towers
are usually built together on
wind farms.

10. Advantages
• Wind power produces no water or air pollution that can
contaminate the environment, because there are no chemical
processes involved in wind power generation.
• Power from the wind does not contribute to global warming
because it does not generate greenhouse gases.
• Wind generation is a renewable source of energy, which
means that we will never run out of it.
• Farming and grazing can still take place on land occupied by
wind turbines.
• Due to the ability of wind turbines to coexist within
agricultural fields, setting costs are frequently low

11. Solar Power
Solar power involves using solar
cells to convert sunlight into
electricity, using sunlight hitting
solar thermal panels to convert
sunlight to heat water or air,
using sunlight hitting a
parabolic mirror to heat water
(producing steam), or using
sunlight entering windows for
passive solar heating of a
building.

12. Solar - Advantages
Solar Energy - Solar power involves using solar cells to convert sunlight
into electricity, using sunlight hitting solar thermal panels
• Solar power imparts no fuel costs.
• Solar power is a renewable resource. As long as the Sun exists, its
energy will reach Earth.
• Solar power generation releases no water or air pollution, because
there is no combustion of fuels.
• Solar energy can be used very efficiently for heating (solar ovens,
solar water and home heaters) and day lighting.

13. Tidal Energy
• It is a form of hydropower that
converts the energy of tides into
electricity or other useful forms
of power.

14. Pros
• It is clean, free, renewable, and sustainable
energy.
• Tides are more predictable than wind energy
and solar power.

15. Geothermal Energy
Geothermal power (from the
Greek words geo, meaning
earth, and thermal, meaning
heat) is energy generated by
heat stored beneath the
Earth's surface.

16. Pros
• The energy harnessed is clean and safe for the surrounding
environment.
• It is also sustainable because the hot water used in the geothermal
process can be re injected into the ground to produce more steam
• Geothermal power plants are unaffected by changing weather
conditions.
• Geothermal power plants work continuously, day and night,
making them base load power plants.
• From an economic view, geothermal energy is extremely price
competitive and reduces reliance on fossil fuels and their inherent
price unpredictability.
• It also offers a degree of scalability: a large geothermal plant can
power entire cities while smaller power plants can supply more
remote sites such as rural villages.

17. Thank you….