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Disadvantages of non-renewable energy
• Are exhaustible.
• Are bulky and thus difficult and costly to transport.
• Coal and fuels are dirty as they contain too much smoke.
• Coal and oil are major pollutants.
• Mining of these sources of energy has left scars on the landscape and pit mining leads to subsidence of the earth's surface.
• Uranium has caused untold suffering from nuclear weapons.
• Mining of coal is dangerous for the health of miners. Since it causes lung diseases.
• Mines sometimes cave in causing loss of life. Actually many people are buried from underground.
• Are bulky and thus difficult and costly to transport.
• Coal and fuels are dirty as they contain too much smoke.
• Coal and oil are major pollutants.
• Mining of these sources of energy has left scars on the landscape and pit mining leads to subsidence of the earth's surface.
• Uranium has caused untold suffering from nuclear weapons.
• Mining of coal is dangerous for the health of miners. Since it causes lung diseases.
• Mines sometimes cave in causing loss of life. Actually many people are buried from underground.