As swanky electronic gazettes have become the new lifestyle status symbols of the modern society, more and more people have started taking to adapting and flaunting latest technology equipments. The usage of mobiles, laptops, mp3 players, computer, LCD TVs and home equipments with advanced technologies have become common. With new upgrades in technology everyday, old equipments are fast phasing out because of obsolence. This obsolete, non-working, non-repairable but durable equipments obviously find there way into the garbage.
According to N.M. Taphani, Regional Officer, Pollution Control Board, this Electronic Waste is highly dangerous for environment and hence should not be disposed with the regular garbage. Electrical and electronic equipment are made up of a multitude of components, some containing toxic substances which can have an adverse impact on human health and the …

Most of our energy comes from burning fossil fuels, this creates a lot of pollution. The other problem with fossil fuels is that they are quickly running out, some experts have suggested that within 50 years our supplies of fossil fuels will of run out. That would cause huge problems for generating power and running vehicles. One of the best alternative methods of generating power so far is solar power.
Solar power is so good because it’s reliable, clean and doesn’t cause any pollution. These panels collect sunlight and convert the suns energy into electricity. This sunlight can be used in a number of different situations, be it factories or homes. Solar panels are suitable for commercial and private use.
Reasons Why We Need Solar Energy
We have been dependant on fossil fuels …

Human activity invariably has an impact on the earth’s ecology through changes to the environment. Major impact drivers are energy and transport, resource use and waste production, and water use and management. These drivers are, however, not exclusive to each other and in fact have considerable overlaps.
Examples of these overlaps are the interdependence of water and energy/power production, the extraction and use of fossil energy resources and the production of wastes, and the utilization of energy for the production and distribution of agricultural and potable water.
Water and Power
Water in the power industry is utilized in many ways, including:
1. steam production for spinning turbines,
2. humidifying air flow into gas-turbines,
3. inter-cooling air in gas-turbine plants,
4. steam injection for nitrogen oxides control,
5. acting as a heat transfer medium in some nuclear plants,
6. condenser …

Scientific American, in the January 2008 issue, has outlined a brilliant plan to end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse emissions through the use of solar energy. The plan demonstrates how solar power plants could supply 69 percent of the U.S’s electricity and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050. Understanding and supporting this plan could be critical to our businesses and our lives on this planet, so that’s why I’ve devoted this column to informing you about this program.
The potential of solar energy is enormous. The energy from sunlight that strikes the earth in just 40 minutes is equivalent to the total global energy consumption for an entire year, according to Scientific American. In the U.S., we have an a tremendous potential resource; 250,000 square miles …

Solar energy as an alternative energy in our new house we are planning to build? Or so I thought. As my husband and I start the process of building a new home, I thought to myself, “Why not check into solar energy?”
Thus began my search for information on my trusty laptop. First, I learned that there is more than one method to harnessing solar energy. Photovoltaic solar energy uses solar panels to absorb sunlight and then through a conversion process, changes that sunlight into useable electricity. Photovoltaic solar energy is actually used on many small items today such as calculators and outdoor lights.
Indirect (or passive) solar heating is also another method of harnessing the sunlight. This process involves using special windows that transfer and holds heat inside the home. For …