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What are the environmental consequences of the increasing demand for energy? What steps would you suggest to reduce energy consumption?

What are the environmental consequences of the increasing demand for energy? What steps would you suggest to reduce energy consumption?

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Pawan Prajapati
askIITians Faculty 60787 Points
3 years ago
Exploiting any source of energy disturbs the environment in some way or the other. The source we would choose depends on factors such as the case of extracting energy from that source, the economics of extracting energy from the source, the efficiency of technology available and the environmental damage that will be caused by using that source. We cannot depend on the fossil fuels for much longer, if we manage bio-mass by replacing the trees we cut down for fire-wood, we can be assured of a constant supply of energy at a particular rate. Renewable energy is available in our natural environment, in the form of some continuing or repetitive current of energy, or is stored in such large under ground reservoirs that the rate of depletion of reservoirs because of extraction of usable energy is practically negligible.

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