energy and environmental affairs

. The use of this stored water was strictly regulated and the optimum cropping patterns based on the water availability were arrived at on the basis of decades/centuries of experience. The maintenance of these irrigation systems was also a local affair. These mega-projects led to the negl..

The energy source that we actually choose depends on various factors like the cost, the ease with which it is available, the efficiency of the technology available and the environmental damage that will be caused by using that source. It is thus debatable as to whether any sour..

Conclusion - Presence of dangerous unnatural ingredeints causing imbalance in the ecosystems and health hazards to human beings and animals is called pollution. Pollution is mainly found in air, water, soil, food and sound. Major human activities like industries, agriculture, health care, transport..

Advantages of Using Solar Energy - It is present everywhere. It is available in plenty. It does not cause any environmental pollution like the fossil fuels and nuclear power. Solar cells last a longer time and have low running costs. In the first half of the twentieth century so..

Exploiting any energy source disturbs the environmental balance and must be harnessed judiciall..

Electricity is obtained from flowing water. The flow of water is checked by building a dam. The water from the dam is allowed to flow through the tunnels at a high pressure. Turbines convert the potential energy of the water into electricity. About 23,800 MW of energy is generat..

The things that man derives from the environment are called natural resources. Natural resources are thus stores of supplies that are needed by man. The resources include the energy, air, soil, water, minerals, microbes, other organisms, et..

. (b) If the reaction proceeds with decrease in volume at constant pressure, the work is done on the system and heat evolved will be greater than the heat evolved at constant volume. Thus, it can be concluded from the above discussion that heat changes occurring at constant pressure and constant te..

This is the domain of living organisms in contact with atmosphere, hydrosphere as well as lithosphere. Man has begun to effect significant changes in his natural environment mainly after the advent of the Industrial revolution. The change in industrial and agricultural practices in the last 300 ye..

Waste products from nuclear power stations etc. are becoming a serious problem. They should be put where the radiation can do no harm. Unfortunately, there is no way of stopping a radioactive nucleus from emitting radiation. Nuclear energy has some advantages over fossil fuel such as coal..