Emerging Green Technologies Are the Future

It took millions of years for fossil fuels to form. Unfortunately humankind has almost exhausted this precious resource within half a century! This deed has not only left us in a lurch but also has messed up Nature’s chain. While humankind released enormous green house gases, it also consumed up nature’s environment cleansing forests, which were the remedy. Today the only way to protect our world and yet keep it going is to find alternatives to the fast depleting fossil fuels. This is where green technologies come in.

Overview of Green Technologies



The energy consumption of the world has increased in multi-folds in the latter part of this century. Green technology is being predicted to be the effective alternative solution to meet the energy requirements as well as bring back nature to normalcy. Green technology is simply any technique that allows utilizing lower energy levels while delivering high output. This exciting green technology can be put to use in almost every sector. For example, in manipulating nature’s resources such as wind, water and light to generate electricity, constructing green buildings that are environment friendly in construction methods, efficiently managing data and compute farms in the IT sector where there’s a lot of energy consumption, in agriculture, and almost any other field that requires huge amounts of energy consumption or results in the emission of green house gases?

Lets look at the simple example of the use of green technology in buildings. There are several advantages in using green technology in today’s buildings. There are also challenges.

Advantages of Green Buildings

There are various immediate as well as long term benefits of using green technology in buildings. Advantages of using green technology include making the environment within and outside the building healthy and cozy; saving much needed energy and water; reducing the construction cost by using recycled materials; lowering the levels of construction and demolition wastage; increasing the value of property; using renewable energy resources; improving air quality; using materials that are long lasting and easy to maintain. The major challenge is the non availability of skilled workers with knowledge in green construction techniques.

Green Building Concept
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To reverse the damage to nature and to have a sustainable future, mankind must invest in green technologies. It seems the so called third world countries have a lead in this and may push other nations to the rear in the adoption of green technologies. Asian countries are keen to adopt technologies. President Obama exposed his fears in a press meet and here is a quote from his speech. "There's no longer a question about whether the jobs and the industries of the 21st century will be centered around clean, renewable energy. The only question is: which country will create these jobs and these industries? And I want that answer to be the United States of America." To their credit Asian giants like India and China have been surprisingly keen to invest huge sums in green technologies! The future may well be theirs if they succeed in doing that.


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