POZITIVNI I NEGATIVNI UTJECAJI OBNOVLJIVIH IZVORA ENERGIJE NA OKOLIŠ / POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF RENEWABLE SOURCES ENERGY ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The discovery of fossil fuels, coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy has significantly changed humanity and the environment. They have brought progress to humanity in all economic sectors, but they have left and still leave unforeseeable consequences for the environment and especially for the climate of the entire planet. As these are non-renewable energy sources, their use burdens the atmosphere, smog and greenhouse gases that the Earth cannot tolerate, and as a result global warming occurs and human health is impaired. Nonrenewable energy sources are still the primary sources of energy and humanity is using them faster than they are being exploited, all world countries have decided to find alternative energy sources that would be acceptable to both humanity and the environment. That is renewable energy sources. There are a large number of renewable energy sources on Earth that have not even begun to be used, and this primarily refers to solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, hydrogen energy, ocean energy and biomass energy, which could be the solution to problems which our planet is facing.