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Energy

by Pardeep Singh, Suruchi Singh, Gaurav Kumar, Pooja Baweja
September 2021
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 58m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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8Clean Energy Sources for a Better and Sustainable Environment of Future Generations

Aparna Nautiyal1,2 and Ayyagari Ramlal3

1 Department of Botany, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

2 i‐4 Centre, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

3 Division of Genetics, ICAR – Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Pusa, New Delhi, India

8.1 Introduction

Energy as one of the primary needs for the sustenance of life is a prerequisite which drives all other functioning and processes within the biosphere (Østergaard et al. 2020). Energy is an essential and vital component to meet the basic requirements of humans in the fields such as agriculture, healthcare, medicine and technology development etc. (Halkos and Gkampoura 2020). The energy demand is increasing day by day at an alarming rate due to the increase in the population and growing demand in various sectors. As a major impact, the degradation of the environment is very much evident nowadays. Micro and macro hazardous air pollutants have become recently harmful and toxic to the environment. The rate of tremendous increase in the pollutants such as NOx, SO2, CO and particulates has caused much trouble and raised the utmost concern for conservation of the environment. The various kinds of environmental pollution include water pollution, maritime pollution, land use and its impact, radiation and radioactivity and its disposal, solid waste disposal, pollutants and others (Dincer 2000). ...

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