Course: REEC 120 Sustainability and Renewable Energy

Unit 1 Overview

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What is the difference between sustainability and renewable energy?

Sustainability: according to the Environmental Protection Agency is “based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment.

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Renewable energy: according to Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association defines is as: “Any energy resource that is naturally regenerated over a short time scale and derived directly from the sun (such as thermal, photochemical, and photoelectric), indirectly from the sun (such as wind, hydropower, and photosynthetic energy stored in biomass), or from other natural movements and mechanisms of the environment (such as geothermal and tidal energy). Renewable energy does not include energy resources derived from fossil fuels, waste products from fossil sources, or waste products from inorganic sources."

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