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Energy is important for almost all activities and therefore plays a vital role in all aspects of day to day life. Life is hard to imagine without energy. Currently, most energy is produced from non-renewable sources like oil, coal, natural gas, petroleum, uranium, etc. These exhaustible energy sources contaminate our air and water, damage the earth’s climate, and destroy balanced eco-system and put human health in danger. This energy which is generated from non-renewable energy sources is harmful, is costly and gets finished fast. This problem can be overcome by using the renewable energy sources which can safeguard our health, wealth and climate. That is, by the use of clean, renewable energy such as the sun, hydro and wind energy. These renewable energy sources are abundantly available in nature, free of cost, reusable and inexhaustible. Among these, water is one of the abundant sources from which energy can be exploited for different purposes. Till now, there are different techniques which generate electricity from flowing water. Even the falling rainwater has the potential which can be used for various applications. This idea can be collaborated with already existing solar panels for better harnessing of the energy. Since these sources do not use these exhaustible fuels, the costs and price alterations are not a problem.
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Shetty, S., Kishore, V., Pinto, S.R., Bommegowda, K. (2020). Energy Harvesting Using Raindrops Through Solar Panels: A Review. In: Kalya, S., Kulkarni, M., Shivaprakasha, K. (eds) Advances in Communication, Signal Processing, VLSI, and Embedded Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 614. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0626-0_24
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