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Advantages of Using Wood and Water Power
Natural Resources – Energy: Advantages and Disadvantages of wood as a source of providing energy
Advantages:
- Renewable energy sources.
- Cheap/free – mostly in rural areas.
- Easily accessible where jungles or woodlands exist.
- Tsotso stoves conserve live trees.
- Technology needed is very cheap and readily available.
- Ash can be used as fertilizer to promote crop growth.
- Multi-functional energy sources.
Disadvantages
- Over-exploitation of forests has serious environmental effects such as deforestation, destruction of ecosystems and animal habitats, accelerated soil erosion among others.
- Air pollution occurs from burning of the energy sources.
- Use can destroy forests or homes through accidental fires.
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