Energy And Society
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The use of Energy has been a key in the development of the human Society by helping it to control and adapt to the environment. Managing the use of Energy is inevitable in any functional Society. In the industrialized world the development of Energy resources has become essential for Agriculture, Transportation, waste collection, Information technology, communications that have become prerequisites of a developed society. The increasing use of energy since the Industrial Revolution has also brought with it a number of serious problems, some of which, such as Global warming, present potentially grave risks to the world. In society and in the context of Humanities, the word energy is used as a synonym of energy resources, and most often refers to substances like Fuels, Petroleum products and Electricity in general. These are sources of usable Energy, in that they can be easily transformed to other kinds of energy sources that can serve a particular useful purpose. This difference vis a vis energy in natural sciences can lead to some confusion, because energy resources are not conserved in nature in the same way as energy is conserved in the context of physics. The actual energy content is always conserved, but when it is converted into Heat for example, it usually becomes less useful to Society, and thus appears to have been used up. Production and consumption of energy resources is very important to the global economy. All economic activity requires energy resources, whether to manufacture goods, provide transportation, run computers and other Machines.
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