Green Energy Sources for Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection

Abstract

The consumption of energy has been increasing rapidly and in fact almost exponentially since the Industrial Revolution. To meet the growing demand of energy, there is at present the pressing need of alternative sources of energy in order to partially solve the present-day problems of the use of fossil fuels. The target is then to explore such energy system or systems that have no negative environmental, economic and societal impacts, which we mostly refer to as “green energy”. The sources of green energy include the energy from sun, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydropower system etc. which will provide an important attribute for sustainable development. This article explains the practical relevance of deriving the energy from sources like ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, hydrogen energy, solar energy. Increasing the utilization of the sources of green energy to a maximum extent will definitely benefit the mankind in terms of their reliability and environmental protection ability. In view of this, an attempt is made to study the applicability of these green energies in our day-to-day life for sustainable development and environmental protection.