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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................11. Energy Meaning......................................................................................................................12. Unit of energy.........................................................................................................................23. Need for energy.......................................................................................................................24. Demand for energy..................................................................................................................25. Reasons for increase in energy demand..................................................................................26. Global variations in energy use...............................................................................................37. Energy consumption per head is a reliable indicator of country's level of economicdevelopment................................................................................................................................48. Global shift in energy demand................................................................................................49. Types of energy used..............................................................................................................510. Impact on the environment...................................................................................................511. Global shift in economic output............................................................................................512. Energy shortages in developing countries can have major impacts- war in Iraq and Libya.613. Lack of access to energy services of adequate quality and quantity.....................................614. Look for alternate energy sources- Renewable.....................................................................615. Types of Renewable..............................................................................................................716. Pros and cons........................................................................................................................7SUSTAINABLE HOUSING DESIGN...........................................................................................71. Location of sustainable home design......................................................................................72. Recycled raw materials...........................................................................................................83. Rain water collection...............................................................................................................94. Led Lights...............................................................................................................................95. Renewable Sources of energy...............................................................................................106. Efficient HVAC....................................................................................................................107. Solar hot water......................................................................................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTIONEnergy is the basic need of life. Then proper planning of the energy while developing asustainable housing will help in improving the effectiveness of the various equipments andmeasures taken for sustainability. The report covers the details about the energy, its units andsustainability. Proper details about energy consumption, its types and the variation on globallevel along with the net consumption and the shift of power is evaluated. Other than this, thedeveloping of a sustainable, energy efficient housing is been evaluated with proper evaluation ofthe components that provides proper planning of the house building operations.1. Energy MeaningIn simple form energy may be defined as an ability to do work and it comes in differentforms like Light energy (radiant energy), Heat energy (thermal energy), Motion energy (Kineticenergy), Gravitational energy, Chemical energy, Electrical energy and Nuclear energy. Ineveryday life people use energy for almost for every thing from walking to sending people in tothe space. There are two types of energy such as stored energy (Potential energy) and workingenergy (Kinetic energy). Basically energy sources can be divided in to two broad categories suchas renewable source of energy and non-renewable source of energy (Chu, Cui. and Liu, 2017).Renewable sources of energy is type of energy which can be easily replenished over a period of atime and does not get exhausted on using it on continuous basis. Non-renewable sources ofenergy is a type of energy which can be easily replenished over a period of time which meansthat such energy which is once used can not be used again and again. Examples of renewable sources of energy:Solar energyWind energyGeothermal energyBio-mass energy from plantsHydro power energy from flowing water.Examples of non-renewable sources of energy:Natural gasCoalNuclear energyPetroleum products
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Hydro carbon gas liquids.2. Unit of energyAs energy is defined as work so the unit of energy is same which is used for the unit ofwork i.e. Joule. The word power and energy are often used interchangeably but it must be keptinto consideration that power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used or transformed byenergy is simply an ability to do work. There are other forms of energy such as kilowatt-hour(kwh), mega joule (MJ), Horse power (Hp), Calorie, etc. Quantities of energy which is given inone unit can also be converted to other units of energy for example 1 gram calorie is equivalentto 4.186 joules which is used measure other form of energy such as heat energy. 3. Need for energyEnergy has got a real importance in our lives most important it fuels our body for theinternal functions, repairs, maintains cells and body tissue. Energy is the essential form of a life,sun indirectly or directly is the prime source of energy available on earth (Luthra and et.al.,2015.). Energy in today's world is very important as we use energy in different aspects of ourlive for example we need energy to perform work, we need energy to generate electricity whichis needed for lighting our homes, businesses, schools, factories etc, we need energy forperforming day to day activities, in fact it is the energy which runs our entire world. 4. Demand for energyThere is a high demand for the energy in the present world and it keeps on increasing dayby day there are various reasons for increase in the demand for energy and one of the majorreason is the rise in the population of the world and another major reason for rising demand forenergy is the economic development. Major forms of the energy which power the energy is coal,gas and oil in order to meet the energy need of the world. From the last year demand for energyis has grown by approximately up to 2.3% which is recorded to be fasted rate of the decade andcauses of rise in pace is majorly due to economic development. As per the report of IEA humansacross the world used and produced 5.67 x 10^ 20 J of energy. 5. Reasons for increase in energy demandRise in demand for the energy may be due to many reasons one of the major reason forrise in demand for energy is rise in population of the world with the rise in the population therewill also be rise in the demand for energy and another reason for rise in demand is economicdevelopment with the growth in economic countries has lead to rise of demand of energy as
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