Energy and Environment: Applications and Sustainable Development.
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2011-10
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Aims: The increased availability of reliable and efficient energy services stimulates new
development alternatives. This article discusses the potential for such integrated
systems in the stationary and portable power market in response to the critical need for a
cleaner energy technology. Throughout the theme several issues relating to renewable
energies, environment, and sustainable development are examined from both current
and future perspectives. It is concluded that green energies like wind, solar, groundsource
heat pumps, and biomass must be promoted, implemented, and demonstrated
from the economic and/or environmental point view.
Study design: Anticipated patterns of future energy use and consequent environmental
impacts (acid precipitation, ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect or global
warming) are comprehensively discussed in this article.
Place and Duration of Study: National Centre for Research, Energy Research Institute
(ERI), between January 2011 and July 2011.
Methodology: An approach is needed to integrate renewable energies in a way to meet
high building performance. However, because renewable energy sources are stochastic
and geographically diffuse, their ability to match demand is determined by adoption of
one of the following two approaches: the utilisation of a capture area greater than that
occupied by the community to be supplied, or the reduction of the community’s energy
demands to a level commensurate with the locally available renewable resources.
Results: The adoption of green or sustainable approaches to the way in which society is
run is seen as an important strategy in finding a solution to the energy problem. The key
factors to reducing and controlling CO2, which is the major contributor to global warming,
are the use of alternative approaches to energy generation and the exploration of how
these alternatives are used today and may be used in the future as green energy
sources.
Conclusion: This global warming will eventually lead to substantial changes in the
world’s climate, which will, in turn, have a major impact on human life and the built
environment. Therefore, effort has to be made to reduce fossil energy use and to
promote green energies, particularly in the building sector. Energy use reductions can be
achieved by minimising the energy demand, by rational energy use, by recovering heat
and the use of more green energies.
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Renewable energy, environment, sustainable development, global warming
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Omer Abdeen Mustafa. Energy and Environment: Applications and Sustainable Development. British Journal of Environment and Climate Change. 2011 Oct-Dec; 1(4): 118-158.