What are some renewable resources and their uses?

Renewable resources are those which can be replenished over time by some natural process, including farming. ... read more

Subsidies are most important in the early stages of growth for new sources of energy, and the oil and gas industries have historically received much higher subsidies than examples of renewable resources. In the United States, the oil and gas industry has benefitted from tax expenditures of $4.86 billion per year on average between 1918 and 2009. read more

My main focus has been on renewable resource use for energy production although renewable resources are very important for our daily lives and overall sustainability. Energy production from natural forces is prevalent because those forces are very powerful, quite ubiquitous as compared to mineral resources, and typically straightforward to exploit. read more

Poultry litter - Can be used to make biogas or can be burned to make electricity; Rapeseed oil - Used to make biodiesel fuel; Rice hulls - Gas produced from these is used to make biogas; Solar energy - Energy from the sun. The sun can be used to charge batteries, can be collected with solar cells to make electricity, or used passively to heat a building. read more