Preserving the planet:

Energy and
Environment

Prepared By B Goutami
Environment and Gender
Environment & Society
Energy and Environment
Introduction - Basic Terminology
✓ Energy has a direct connection to the environment.
✓ Every human activity consumes energy and resources.
✓ These resources are either unlimited (renewable) or limited and
are already depleted or have already been depleted.

✓ Energy consumption always has an impact on the environment.

✓Our growth is due to the availability of cheap and plenty of
energy to meet our daily needs.
Introduction - Basic Terminology
Energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object
in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object. Energy is a conserved
quantity; the law of conservation of energy states that energy can be
converted in form, but not created or destroyed. The SI unit of energy is
the joule, which is the energy transferred to an object by the work of
moving it a distance of 1 metre against a force of 1 newton.
The word energy derives from the Ancient Greek: EvέpyƐla, romanized:
energeia, lit. 'activity, operation', which possibly appears for the first time
in the work of Aristotle in the 4th century BC. In contrast to the modern
definition, energeia was a qualitative philosophical concept, broad enough
to include ideas such as happiness and pleasure. (source Wikipedia)
Introduction - Basic Terminology
Every natural system contains (or alternatively stores) an amount
called energy. Energy, therefore, is the ability of a body or system
to produce work.
It is defined as the amount of work required for the system to go
from an initial state to a final one.
Any form of action from children's toys to the operation of
machines and from cooking food to the production line at the
factory requires energy consumption.
The diverse forms of energy are behind the variety of natural
phenomena.
The energy with which our planet is powered on comes almost
entirely from the Sun.
Introduction - Basic Terminology
Energy comes in many forms and can be:

Mechanical energy (kinetic and dynamic).

Electromagnetic energy (electric, magnetic, luminous)
Nuclear energy
Thermal energy
Chemical energy

Energy is detected every time there is a change in the properties of

an object or a system.
Introduction - Basic Terminology
Primary energy (PE) is an energy form found in nature that has not
been subjected to any human engineered conversion process. It is
energy contained in raw fuels, and other forms of energy received
as input to a system (eg. the energy content of oil, natural gas,
carbon, etc.).
Secondary energy is a carrier of energy, which results from the
conversion of forms of primary source (eg the energy content of
the fuel oil (after its conversion from crude oil to a refinery),
electricity, etc.)
Final form of energy is the energy content, which refers to the
energy used by the end user, is reduced during losses from various
uses and energy conversions.
Introduction - Basic Terminology
Introduction - Basic Terminology
Energy efficiency means the ratio of output of performance,
service, goods or energy, to input of energy.
Energy savings means an amount of saved energy determined by
measuring and/or estimating consumption before and after
implementation of an energy efficiency improvement measure,
whilst ensuring normalisation for external conditions that affect
energy consumption
Energy efficiency improvement means an increase in energy
efficiency as a result of technological, behavioural and/or economic
changes