Question #8112e
1 Answer
Energy is the main ‘fuel’ for social and economic development, and energy-related activities have significant environmental impacts.
Explanation:
All energy is “non-renewable” because the law of thermodynamics says that entropy is always increasing, and energy cannot be created or destroyed – only changed in form. However, in terms of available energy sources on earth we think of any directly solar-derived sources as “renewable”. Included are wave,water, wind, biomass conversion and direct photo-voltaic electrical production. Nuclear power is produced from a fixed supply of raw material that cannot be “renewed”.
0http://www.worldenergy.org/publications/2013/world-energy-resources-2013-survey/
How this impacts the economy is explored further in this article:
http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-with-most-energy-reserves-2014-2?op=1
By Con-struct - BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2015, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25474137 and
http://www.asrc.albany.edu/people/faculty/perez/Kit/pdf/a-fundamental-look-at%20the-planetary-energy-reserves.pdf
