Non-conventional Sources of Energy

Need of Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

• Reliance on Fossil Fuels: As there is developing utilization of energy in the country
• Vulnerabilities about the Security of Energy: Due to rising costs of oil and gas and their possible deficiencies
• The use of non-renewable energy sources likewise creates genuine natural issues

There is a pressing need to utilize environmentally friendly power sources like sunlight based energy, wind, tide, biomass and energy from squander material. These are called non-conventional energy sources.

Nuclear or Atomic Energy:

• It is acquired by adjusting the design of molecules. At the point when such an adjustment is made, much energy is delivered as hotness and this is utilized to produce electric power
• Uranium and Thorium are accessible in Jharkhand and the Aravalli scopes of Rajasthan and are utilized for creating nuclear or atomic power. The Monazite sands of Kerala are additionally wealthy in Thorium.

Solar Energy

• Photovoltaic innovation changes over daylight straightforwardly into power 
• India is a tropical nation and has huge potential outcomes of tapping sun based energy
• Some enormous sunlight based power plants are being set up in various pieces of India which will limit the reliance of provincial families on kindling and fertilizer cakes, which thus will add to ecological preservation and satisfactory inventory of excrement in farming.

Wind Power

• India has extraordinary capability of wind power
• The biggest breeze ranch is situated in Tamil Nadu, from Nagercoil to Madurai. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra and Lakshadweep have likewise significant breeches.

Biogas

• It is delivered by bushes, ranch waste, animal and human waste for home-grown utilization in provincial regions
• Deterioration of natural matter yields gas, which has higher warm proficiency when contrasted with lamp fuel, manure cake and charcoal
• Gobar Gas Plants: The plants which use steers compost in provincial India. It gave two advantages to the rancher as energy and worked on the nature of excrement 
• It forestalls the deficiency of trees and excrement because of consuming fuel wood and cow compost cakes

Advantages of Biogas

Advantages

•   It is a cost-effective technology that generates fuel from waste
• It reduces our reliance on fossil fuels by allowing biogas produced by biomass plants to be used directly as fuel
• It is extremely cost-effective and low-cost
• It is carbon-free. When you burn bio-waste, you release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but when you burn biofuels like biogas, you don’t.

Tidal Energy

• Utilization of Oceanic Tides: Floodgate dams are worked across bays. During elevated tide, water streams into the bay and gets caught when the door is shut. After the tide falls outside the conduit, the water held by the conduit streams back to the ocean by means of a line that brings it through a power-producing turbine
• In India the Gulf of Khambhat, the Gulf of Kachchh in Gujarat on the western coast and Gangetic delta in Sundarban locales of West Bengal give ideal conditions for using flowing energy.

Tidal Energy Benefits

The following are some of the advantages of tidal energy:

• Tidal energy is a renewable energy source, which means it does not degrade over time
• In addition to being a renewable energy source, tidal power plants do not emit greenhouse gases during the generation of electricity
• The tidal currents are well-known. Because low and high tides follow predictable patterns, it’s simple to predict when electricity will be generated throughout the day
• Tidal power plants can generate a lot of electricity. Water is extremely dense – over 800 times denser than air. This is one of the main reasons for this
• Furthermore, the tidal energy system established has low operational and maintenance costs.

Geo Thermal Energy

• It alludes to the hotness and power created by utilising the hotness from the inside of the Earth
• Where the geothermal slope is high, high temperatures are found at shallow profundities. Groundwater in such regions ingests heat from the stones and becomes hot. It is hot to the point that when it ascends to the earths surface, it transforms into steam. This steam is utilised to drive turbines and create power
• Two Experimental Projects in India: Parvati valley close to Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh and the Puga Valley, Ladakh.

Geo Thermal Energy Sources Advantages

•  They are completely renewable and environmentally friendly
• They are also a source of future energy, with new research underway in various parts of the world to better harness geothermal energy.

Conservation of Energy Resources

• There is an earnest need to foster a supportable way of energy improvement
• Advancement of energy protection and expanded utilization of environmentally friendly power sources are the twin boards of feasible energy 
• There is a need to take on a careful methodology for the sensible utilization of restricted energy assets.

Conclusion

Non-conventional energy sources, also known as renewable energy sources, are energy sources that are replenished on a regular basis by natural processes. Non-conventional energy sources do not deplete quickly and can be produced at a predictable rate for repeated use.