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Renewable Power Digest


01 September 2008

Renewable energy is generated from natural resources that are generally inexhaustible or replenished naturally.   Rising fossil fuel prices, reliability of energy supply, pollution, CO2 emissions, climate change and other issues concerned with conventional energy supplies make renewable energy an important topic for the 21st Century


Overviews of renewable energy

Types of renewable energy

The main part of this digest brings together the sources and favourable locations, generation of energy, advantages, disadvantages, policy and current research and development for each type of resource

Energy from the oceans

Geothermal energy

Hydroelectricity

Solar power

Wind power