Energy Resource Plan

Energy Resource Plan
Our daily life depend more so on energy. Energy is usually defined as "the ability to do work." Working includes performing of various duties including movement, lighting and warming among others. Industries are the major consumers of energy followed by households. In our homes, various tasks require energy for operation. These include heating, lighting, air conditioning, ironing, entertainment, and many others. Electricity is the major form of energy consumed in the households. In the United States, the major sources of energy include renewable, non renewable and nuclear energy (Epa 1997).
The amount of non renewable energy sources present is diminishing and this calls for the intensive call for conserving energy usage or adopt the renewable sources for long term sustainability. The global climate change and environment degradation are the major crisis affecting humans in the current century. Use of non renewable sources of energy leads to pollution of the environment and this is depicted as the major influence of climate change. The major form of pollution is the atmospheric and marine pollution (Epa 1997).
Burning of fossil fuels lead to leads to emission of carbon dioxide. This is produced in large quantities at the industries, homes and in motor vehicles. Carbon dioxide is a green house gas and its addition into the atmosphere lead to the increase of atmospheric temperatures through acting as a cloud leading to global warming. Global warming causes various dangerous effects to the humans including health complications, destruction of environment including degradation of vegetation thus affecting both the animals and the plants since the environment is cyclic (Epa 1997).
Renewable and non renewable sources of energy are the main producers of electricity. Renewable sources of energy are the sources that do not deplete thus sustainability. Among the major renewable energy sources include "wind (wind power), water (hydropower), sun (solar), vegetation (biomass), and the internal earth heat (geothermal)." In the United States, renewable sources of energy represent approximately 10 percent of the total electricity consumption. Non renewable sources of energy ar...