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Introduction
Renewable energy, often referred to as green energy, will be the most important kind of energy in the near future. The current society hardly relies on fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal, most of them coming from political instable regions like the Middle East. With supplies rapidly dwindling, an energy crisis will never stay too far away.
All fossil fuels contain a high percentage of carbon an hydrocarbons, which are normally in the earth’s crust. When burning these materials, most of those carbon chains will go into the atmosphere under the form of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxiode (CO2). This greenhouse gases cause an increase of the average temperature of the earth’s near-surface air and oceans.
We can reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses, produced by our energy production, by switching to renewable energy. The required energy can be obtained from a wide variety of sources. The most important are:
Updates
This website is brand new and is growing fast. New articles are being written constantly and existing articles are being updated on regular basis. You will notice not every topic is fully completed, but I can guarantee you, I am working hard to get everything in order as fast as I can. To keep you informed of which new articles are being added/ edited, a list of recent updates to the site:
- 11/09/2010 The articles on Smart Grids have been finished.
You can start reading here: Ocean energy >> - 05/09/2010 The articles on ocean energy have been finished.
You can start reading here: Ocean energy >> - 16/08/2010 The articles on energy storage have been finished.
You can start reading here: Energy storage >> - 02/08/2010 The articles on geothermal energy have been finished.
You can start reading here: Geothermal energy >> - 06/07/2010 The articles on energy management have been finished.
You can start reading here: Energy management >> - 12/06/2010 The articles on hydropower have been finished.
You can start reading here: Hydropower >> - 10/05/2010 The articles on solar energy have been finished.
You can start reading here: Solar energy >> - 30/04/2010 The first articles on solar energy have been finished.
Solar energy introduction, Passive solar heat, Solar updraft tower >> - 09/04/2010 The articles on global warming have been finished.
Global warming >> - 09/04/2010 The introduction on renewable energy has been finished.
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