Comparison between Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Sources

Renewable vs Non Renewable energy sources:

The concept of renewable versus non renewable energy sources provides the basis for sustainability. Renewable energy sources are replenished by natural processes over time and we can use them again and again over an infinite span of time like solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy etc.

On the other hand non-renewable energy sources like oil or minerals are formed over millions of years under the earth’s crust. Earth can replenish non-renewable sources, but this takes place over millions of years in which organic matter is transformed into fossil fuels.

Renewable vs Non Renewable Energy Sources

How Renewable energy sources replenish themselves?

Resources	How these resources are replenished
Air	Plant and Animal respiration
Forests	Reproduction and Germination
Solar Radiations	Activity at the Sun’s Core
Water	Rain, Biological reactions including respiration
Wind	Climate, Tides, and weather conditions
Animals	Reproduction
Geothermal	Activity of tectonic plates under earth’s crust
Soil	Earth’s sediment cycle
Microbes (Biomass)	Reproduction

How Non-Renewable energy sources become depleted?

Resources	How these resources become depleted
Coal	Mining for energy production by burning
Oil	Extraction for using as fuel to generate energy
Natural Gas	Extraction for energy production by burning
Metals	Mining for industrial use
Minerals	Mining and other extraction methods for industrial use and other commercial uses
Uranium	Nuclear energy production
Petroleum	Extraction for energy production by combustion and industrial uses

The world’s total consumption of renewable and non-renewable natural energy sources can be expressed by a term called the ecological footprint. The ecological footprint is equal to the amount of land and water needed to sustain life on earth and absorb wastes. Since the mid-1980s, the world’s population has exceeded its ecological footprint. In other words, people are consuming resources faster than the earth can replenish them.

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Updates On Renewable Vs Non-Renewable Energy Resources:

Solar power remains the highly promising renewable energy source in the field of carbon free technology. It has been declared by the scientists and solar power developers that within six to seven years, cost of electricity production from solar energy will cost no more than that from fossil fuels.