Tag: sources of energy

Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth. It's clean and sustainable. Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.

The sun is the ultimate source of almost all kinds of energy on earth,

either directly or indirectly.
Directly sun gives us solar power and is perfect non-conventional energy source.
Moreover, Fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) are the

transformed forms of plants (and animals) which once lived on the earth

and grew capturing the energy of the sun. Biomass is a product of

photosynthesis where the sun has the major role. Hydro-electricity

depends upon the water cycle which again is dependent on solar

radiation. Similarly, wind energy, tidal power, wave power all, in some

way or other, and depend on the sun.

Wind, water, tides all can be used again and again. But, once natural gas is burnt, it can never be used again.

Biomass is biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. In the context of biomass for energy this is often used to mean plant based material, but biomass can equally apply to both animal and vegetable derived material.
Hence, the non-usable animal or vegetable products are collectively called Biomass.