HONG KONG'S ENERGY RESOURCES
By Richard Moncure
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Energy Resources
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Agricultural Age Energy Sources:
Renewable energy sources: solar, wind, water, humans/slavery, animals, etc.
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Industrial Age Energy Sources:
Non-renewable, fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal) and nuclear fission (uranium and plutonium fuels). These fuels pollute more, and once extracted from the earth, they are gone.
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Information Age Energy Sources:
Eventual return (once fossil fuels are exhausted) to renewable energy sources (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, ocean thermal, and biomass)--as in agricultural age, but using more sophisticated technologies to tap these energy sources; also nuclear fusion (from fusing of hydrogen atoms in water) once the technology is perfected in future; lag in transition to these alternative energy sources--perhaps into next age.
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Conclusions on Hong Kong (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Energy Sources)
Hong Kong is in the forefront in the use of renewable energy resources. This is important because Hong Kong must import all the oil that it uses and the solar and water related energy resources are readily available.
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