Question

What is energy crisis? What is the root cause of energy crisis? Suggest ways to overcome the energy crisis. [3 MARKS]

Answer 1

Each point: 1 Mark

1. Energy crisis refers to the lack of available useful energy.
2. Even though conservation of energy tells us that energy can be converted from one form to the other, but we notice that energy in the usable form is dissipated to the surrounding in less usable form.The conversion of less usable energy to more usable energy does not happen spontaneously.
3. The energy crisis can be solved by efficient utilization of fossil fuels, avoiding wastage of energy and increasing our reliability on non-conventional sources of energy.