Environmental technology "green technology" or clean technology (also abbreviated as CleanTech) is the application of the environmental sciences to conserve the natural environment and resources, and by curbing the negative impacts of human involvement. Sustainable development is the core of environmental technologies. When applying sustainable development as a solution for environmental issues, the solutions need to be socially equitable, economically viable, and environmentally sound. Green anarchists, criticise the concept due to their view of technology requiring the exploitation of the environment, thus making the idea contradictory. Some environmental technologies that retain sustainable development are; recycling, water purification, sewage treatment, remediation, flue gas treatment, solid waste management, renewable energy, and others.
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Some technologies assist directly with energy conservation, while other technologies are emerging that help the environment by reducing the amount of waste produced by human activities. Energy sources such as solar power create less problems for the environment than traditional sources of energy like coal and petroleum. Scientists continue to search for clean energy alternatives to our current power production methods. Some technologies such as anaerobic digestion produce renewable energy from waste materials. The global reduction of greenhouse gases is dependent on the adoption of energy conservation technologies at industrial level as well as this clean energy generation. That includes using unleaded petrol, solar energy and hybrid cars which do not produce a lot of harmful gases. Since electric motors consume 60% of all electricity generated, advanced energy efficient electric motor (and electric generator) technology that are cost effective to encourage their application, such as the brushless wound-rotor doubly-fed electric machine and energy saving module, can dramatically cut the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) that would otherwise be introduced to the atmosphere.
Examples
- Alternative energy
- Energy Saving Modules
- Brushless Wound-Rotor Doubly-Fed Electric Machine
- Green building
- Green syndicalism
- Hybrid vehicle
- Solar power
See also
| Sustainable development Portal |
- Air pollution dispersion modeling.
- Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies.
- Clean technology
- Eco-innovation and eco-development.
- Environmental engineering.
- Environmental studies.
- Green Anarchy.
- Green banking
- National Venture Capital Association
- Permaculture.
- Silicon Valley.
External links
- Environmental Technologies CIC - A one stop shop solution to resolve complex environmental issues that affect businesses in a wide variety of sectors
- EUCETSA - European Committee of Environmental Technology Supplier Associations (representing over 1.000 companies in the environmental industry)
- Green Progress - Environmental technology news and resources
- Related "Norway Online" resources
- Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy - July 7 - 11, 2008
- How Silicon Valley could become the Detroit of electric cars.
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Related fields: Biology · Chemistry · Environmental design · Environmental economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental law · Physics · Pollution control · Sustainability · Waste management |
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