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9. Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Resources: Bioenergy and Biofuels

Authors : Shiv Shankar, Shikha

Published in: Principles and Applications of Environmental Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Energy is at the heart of most critical economic, environmental, and development issues facing the world today. Challenges posed on global community and national governments due to energy security, climate change, health impacts, and poverty are making it exigent to make energy sector green. Shifting toward green energy is supposed to play a critical role in addressing some of the most prominent contemporary challenges the world is facing at present.

Renewable energy is derived from natural processes that are replenished constantly. Renewable energy replaces conventional fuels in four distinct areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, motor fuels, and rural (off-grid) energy services. Present chapter shall deal with different renewable energy resources and technologies, their ecological implications, commercialization, challenges, and opportunities.

Nonrenewable energy resources (also called a finite resource) are resource that does not renew themselves at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human time frames. At present, the main energy source used by humans is nonrenewable fossil fuels. The continual use of fossil fuels at the current rate is believed to increase global warming and cause more severe climate change. This segment will highlight different nonrenewable energy resources, present status, their ecological implications, and future prospectus.

Bioenergy a form of renewable energy is obtained from biomass. Biomass contains solar energy in the form of chemical energy. As a fuel it may include wood, wood waste, straw, manure, sugarcane, and many other by-products from wide spectrum of agricultural practices. This section will describe different forms of bioenergy, routes of conversion of biomass into bioenergy, present status, and future prospectus.

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Title: Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Resources: Bioenergy and Biofuels
Authors: Shiv Shankar
Shikha
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: Principles and Applications of Environmental Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-1865-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-1866-4

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1866-4_9