Droubi (2006): Concept and importance of non- renewable resources, in: S. Foster / D. P. Loucks, Non-renewable Groundwa- ter Resources: A guidebook on socially sustainable management for water- policy makers, P
Nonrenewable resources are also called exhaustible resources. For example, petroleum deposits need millions of years of geological movement and more millions of years of chemical processing. If humans were only using a few drops of petroleum a year, you could conceivably claim that petroleum is a ...
Oron (2016) claims that “In reality, there exist many applications where job processing times are controlled by the allocation of non-renewable resources such as sub-contracting, additional budget, fuel, electricity, fertilizer, etc.” The early studies considered that the actual job processing ...
One long-term concern with the use of nonrenewable resources is their lack of sustainability. Eventually, these limited resources will either run out or become too difficult to mine and our energy infrastructure will lack needed fuel sources. Of more imminent concern is the pollution generated by ...
Journal of Scheduling (2024) 27:151–164 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-024-00807-y Scheduling with non-renewable resources: minimizing the sum of completion times Kristóf Bérczi1 · Tamás Király2 · Simon Omlor3 Accepted: 5 February 2024 / Published online: 24 March 2024 © The ...
The reason that non-renewable resources are "non-renewable" is because there is a finite amount available on earth. Fossil fuels—the most commonly used resource—will eventually cease to exist on the planet if constantly consumed; this means that eventually, new, alternative energy sources will ...
Metal mining provides the elements required for the provision of energy, communication, transport and more. The increasing uptake of green technology, such as electric vehicles and renewable energy, will also further increase metal demand. However,
L. Phosphorus acquisition and use: critical adaptations by plants for securing a nonrenewable resource. New Phytol. 157, 423–447 (2003). 33. Richardson, A. E. Prospects for using soil microorganisms to improve the acquisition of phosphorus by plants. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 28, 897–906 ...
Recycling is the optimal choice as it reduces water and energy consumption by replacing virgin raw materials with recycled ones, thus preventing the depletion of non-renewable resources (Baccouch et al., 2022; Muthu, 2020). Currently, textile waste is managed through unplanned methods such as ...
Presently, due to high demand of the energy and depletion of non-renewable resources, there has been great deal of focus on the alternate energy sources. The great advancement in the development of solar cells have been made1. Among various types of solar cells, the organic solar cells (OSCs...