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1.6.2 Differentiate Between Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Sources
ОглавлениеThe difference in renewable and non-renewable energy sources was explained in Table 1.5.
Table 1.5 Difference in renewable and non-renewable energy sources.
| S.No | Aspects | Renewable energy | Non-renewable energy |
| 1 | Origin | Earth’s atmosphere— Not human made | Underground layers of Earth-Natural resources |
| 2 | Restrictions | Eco-friendly to use | Serious impact on environment leads to climatic change |
| 3 | Skills | Interdisciplinary | More awareness link with engineering terms |
| 4 | Life of Resources | Finite | Infinite and vanish |
| 5 | Scale | Small | Large |
| 6 | Impacts on environment | 3%–4% of CO2 | 91%–94% of CO2 |
| 7 | Harmful to environment | Less harmful | More polluted to air, water |
| 8 | Requirements of area | Larger | Smaller |
| 9 | Maintenance cost | High | Low |
| 10 | Safety Precaution | Less | More |
| 11 | Examples | Solar, tidal energy, ethanol, biofuels, methanol, biodiesel, etc. | Oil, natural gas, minerals, etc. |
