Here is a brief overview of environmental impacts of some of the major renewable energy sources:
Now knowing the ways in which these sources impact our environment, let us now go through a few main particular sources in detail:
Reading Material:
Issue of recyclability of PV cells:
Read the following for a full summary: (Pages 134-137)
Environmental Impact of Solar PV
Read the following for a full summary of environmental impacts due to wind energy:
Fun Fact! Wind energy consumes the least amount of water during its operations amongst all the renewable sources.
This is a detailed resources on the same:
Read this for a full summary of its environmental impacts: