Energy and Resources 🌍 | SprachLichtung

📄️ Energy

There are many different forms and sources of energy. Here is an overview.

What counts as renewable energy, and what share does it cover today?

Humans are biological energy stores and can perform work.

Animals such as horses and oxen long served as means of transport and as a mechanical energy source.

Plants as a source of energy: food, biomass and fuel.

Solar energy as a source of electricity and heat and the origin of many other forms of energy.

Wind energy on land, at sea and in waves.

Water as a versatile energy source and as an energy store in pumped-storage plants.

Geothermal energy uses the heat inside the Earth in various ways.

Tidal energy and parts of current energy go back to the influence of the moon.

Nuclear energy through fission and fusion, and the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear reactors.