...Jack 9/27/15 Persuasive essay Renewable Energy for America Did you know that renewable energy is more efficient not only for Americas ecosystem but for its economy to? One of the ways it is more efficient for Americas ecosystem is by not releasing harmful gases or materials to produce electricity. One way renewable energy is better for America’s economy is that it produces hundreds of thousands of jobs all across the country. One of the renewable energy sources that would be used is hydropower or hydroelectricity. Hydropower uses the force of the energy of moving water to generate electricity or power. There are three different types of Hydropower; the main type used in America is using a dam on a river to store water in a reservoir. Then...
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...Should South Africa use renewable energy sources as a solution to its energy crisis? The great demand for renewable energy sources has been on a rise in South Africa since it experienced its energy crisis, namely load shedding. The load shedding occurrence is due to the non-renewable sources of energy which are diminishing. Renewable energy is a clean energy source which can be generated or manufactured faster than it can be used up. Most renewable energy sources are clean sources of energy (e.g. they don’t emit any greenhouse gases). Renewable sources of energy are collected from resources which are naturally replenished. Each renewable source of energy comes with a unique benefit to the environment, well-being and economy. They come with...
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...Renewable Energy hotmail2008 Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 3 Wind Energy Data 5 Analysis 6 Conclusion 8 Bibliography 9 Executive Summary The majority of our nation’s energy is highly dependent on finite fossil energy sources, like coal and oil. Using fossil fuels to create electricity creates emissions that are both harmful to the environment and our health. Renewable energy sources provide a clean and viable long term alternative to fossil fuels. Renewable energy is energy generated by natural resources in the form of solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and tidal waves. Among the diversity of renewable energy, wind energy is the fastest growing power technology in the world. According to the U.S. government Energy Information Administration, the production of wind energy will be at least 20% by the year 2030. This report will prove the validity of this statement by using hypothesis analysis. Hypothesis analysis will reject the null hypothesis that wind energy production will be less then 20% in favor of the alternate hypothesis that states wind energy production will be at least 20% or greater. Introduction The majority of our nation’s energy is produced from the burning of fossil fuels, like coal, oil, and natural gas. Life as we know it and our economy revolves around these finite resources. Unfortunately, with our great demand for energy, especially gasoline, world production of oil has already reached its maximum...
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...Free Essays Home Search Essays FAQ Contact Search: Go View Cart / Checkout Search Results Free Essays Unrated Essays Better Essays Stronger Essays Powerful Essays Term Papers Research Papers Search by keyword: wind Sort By: Go Your search returned over 400 essays for "wind" 1 2 3 4 5 Next >> These results are sorted by most relevant first (ranked search). You may also sort these by color rating or essay length. Title Length Color Rating Wind Power and Wildlife Issues in Kansas - ... Turbines can produce electricity at wind speeds as low as 9 miles per hour, reach their peak of production at 33 miles per hour, plus shut down and turn sideways at wind speeds above 56 miles per hour. An average wind speed at the site of a turbine is 20 miles per hour. Because of these features on the towers, they rank Kansas the 3rd in the US for wind energy potential. The Gray County Wind Farm in Kansas, powered by Florida Power and Light Energy, has collected data from 2001-2009 on electricity production.... [tags: kansas, wind energy, wind turbines] :: 1 Works Cited 1537 words (4.4 pages) $29.95 [preview] Analysis of Wind Turbine Designs - Abstract Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and one of the most philanthropic men in history giving over 28 billion dollars to charity so far, states his number one wish for the world wouldn't be to rid the world of aids, vaccinate kids around the world, or feed every starving children; instead, it would be...
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...Introduction The energy consumption of western cities' households stands at about one-third. Energy is a very good example of a natural resource. In as much as it is surprising, efforts have been made since the 21st century to try and conserve these natural resources (Montana Conservation Council, 1956, p. 12). The essay seeks to discuss how some of the activities carried out have been used to promote resource efficiency and sustainable management of natural resources. The essay seeks to detail information on some of the case studies depicting the impacts of these activities. Promotion of Energy Efficient Bulbs The energy efficient bulbs are energy economical due to its insignificant consumption of electricity. According to the results obtained by conducting a series of tests, the bulb converts about 80 percent of the electrical power to light energy. The other 20 percent is therefore converted to other forms of energy such as heat. When compared to traditional bulbs, the results were opposite to having 80 percent of the energy wasted by being converted to other forms while 20 percent being converted to light energy. Adoption of Renewable Energy One of the ways adoption of renewable energy has contributed towards the conservation of natural resources is through enhancing energy security. When one looks at some of the renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind and geothermal, all these sources provide viable energy sources that do not run out unlike the fixed energy sources...
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...------------------------------------------------- Design Technology ------------------------------------------------- Research Essay Chitransh Mathur Task: Research Essay Unit: Systems Design Due Date: 29/4/13 Weighting: 25% The concept of renewable energy within Australia, particularly Solar Energy has a huge scope of serious development and benefit to our future energy needs. Our country to this date has the highest average solar radiation per square meter of any country in the world (Geoscience Australia, 2012). Even our solar radiation in the southern regions has a higher overall radiation than countries like Germany, who are one of the most developed nations in terms of Solar Energy. Since late 2012, 10% of Australian energy relies on renewable sources of which 0.03% is Solar (T. Flannery, V.Sahajwalla, 2012). Although this percentage is small, due to the continual evolution of the concept and the current state of the economy and particularly the feed-in tariffs schemes; Solar Energy in Australia is becoming progressively affordable. The current state of Solar Energy in Australia is advancing, though obstacles such as ecological impacts & risks, the heritage & cultural boundaries placed...
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...In 2005, James Howard Kunstler wrote the essay “Globalization’s Time Is Up”, which focuses on how stable our social infrastructure on a global scale. This controversial essay by Kunstler attempts to convince the reader that globalization will soon be a thing of the past. He claims that the irresponsible consumption of linear resources caused by globalization will result in another war for humanity as societies clash in battles for the world’s remaining supplies, such as oil and energy sources. Although the author does make strong arguments on how globalization in other cultures throughout history has failed, and how it will likely fail again. He fails to provide any solutions or alternatives to the dilemmas he brings up in globalization. This...
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...The way that this essay is written is very much like story-telling, it tells of when and how nuclear plants were shut down and how the goals of fossil fuel reduction were put in place in Germany. This makes this essay much more attention-grabbing and interesting. The way that events are written chronologically in this essay make it much easier to understand. It is an extremely complicated issue, with lots of numbers, so I am thankful that Kunzig used chronological order for this essay. Although there were a lot of German words I was not able to completely pronounce or understand, the other words that are included are simplified and also make it easier for this essay to be understood by its audience. Fossil fuels will affect not only my future,...
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... | | | | |Unit Code No.: |HOS201 | | | | |Unit Title: |Operation and Environmental Management | | | | |Assessment No.: |Individual essay | | | | |Lecturer: |Ms.Trinidad Navarro | | |...
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...Trade Policies on the Solar Energy Market Outline Abstract Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Literature Review Chapter 3: Method of Procedure Materials Procedure Chapter 4: Results Limitations Chapter 5: Summary Chapter 6: Conclusions References Appendix 1: Graphs and Charts Graph of Solar Energy Market Growth, Graph of Polysilicon in the Global Market Appendix 3: Survey (simulated) Abstract The United States and Europe have stated goals of increasing renewable energy usage (Lewis & Wiser). Solar energy is a key component of any renewable portfolio (Scheer, 2007). However, many industry professionals have stated that countries such as China and Vietnam have an unfair trade advantage due to heavily subsidized industries (Lewis & Wiser). The aim of this research is to examine how implementing tariffs have affected the market growth of the solar energy market. This paper will rely on secondary sources for market information and for growth predictions. It will also rely on examples of previous markets and the historical record of market contraction after implementing severe trade restrictions. Using these sources, it can be shown that trade restrictions slow growth in the solar market in countries that implement them. This paper is designed to be used by professionals who work in the solar energy industry in order to make predictions of market changes as future trade tariffs are implemented or repealed. Introduction Solar energy projects are considered...
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...infrared radiation at the atmosphere from escaping into outer space. The main source of carbon dioxide emission is the burning of fossil fuels to generate energy in order to meet our daily requirements. Although the dependable energy supply by fossil fuel is essential in our every day life, because of its adverse effect is why the government should implement policies to encourage the use of renewable energy resources to conserve the environment. Fossil fuels like coal, petroleum, uranium, natural gases are non-renewable energy sources, which mean these resources cannot be re-made or regenerated. In contrast to that, renewable energy resources like hydroelectric energy, solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy do not deplete, or it will take a substantially long time to deplete them as it can be replenished by nature. Statistics has shown that there is an increase in the investment of renewable energy over the pass few years, in 2007 more than $100 billion was invested in renewable energy (Renewables 2007 Global Status Report 2007, p. 16). Even China which has overtaken the United States as the world’s leading producer of greenhouse gases (cited in Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley 2007 p.1). is switching to renewable energy resources(Renewables 2007 Global Status Report 2007, p. 8). The main reason for the switch to renewable...
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...Ecological Footprint Since the industrial revolution, human’s demand for natural resources is greater than ever. Consumption and waste are extremely high in some countries and this is negatively impacting on our natural environment. If human’s develop the world by destroying the environment, that will not be lasting and sustainable development. We need to find the way to deal with the human development and also preserve the natural resources. The definition of the ‘ecological footprint’ is a way of measuring our impact on the natural environment as a result of our resource use(WWF, n.d). The purpose of this essay is to find out the ecological footprint in different countries and how resources being used and give to my personal suggestions. This essay, will compare the ecological footprint between two countries, Japan which is developed country and China --- developing country. China consumes 15% of the global biocapacity, and is in the second place in the world but also has the largest population. In 2003, China’s ecological footprint was 1.6(China Ecological Footprint Report, 2012), under the global per capita average of ecological footprint. Carbon footprint occupies half of the whole ecological footprint. From the same year’s figure of The Ecological Footprint Countries (China Ecological Footprint Report, 2012), Japan 4.4 per capita is in the first of Asian countries. Japanese mountain accounted for 73% of total land area, in addition to agricultural land, one percent...
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...for each article: • Discuss whether the author used deductive argument or inductive reasoning. • Identify the deductive argument, or some of the supporting information for the inductive reasoning. • Explain your answer using the course materials to support your findings. Article 1: “Biofuels Are Not a Viable Renewable Energy” Written by: Danny Chivers In this essay the author attempts to prove that biofuels are not a viable renewable energy source. He uses facts that are both relevant and sound to prove his conclusion. He gave many examples of how biofuels could be used locally, but that on a global scale it would be pointless, and potentially more harmful. I believe that the author is using a deductive argument to prove his argument, because he uses many facts, such as the statistics from reports and research that has been done, and he gives sufficient evidence to support his deduction. He gives several reasons that biofuels are not a viable renewable energy source, such as: the potential danger it would put on food stores and food crop prices, the indirect emissions resulting from destroying peat land or rainforest to build more room to grow energy crops, and the shear amount of farmland that would be needed to make a significant change in global dependence to fossil fuels. From all of the statistics and examples, results from research, and information from credible sources, I would have to say that the author did a good job of presenting his argument using deduction...
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...Higher School of Economics Nizhny Novgorod branch Essay «Investing in renewable energy: global trend» Student: Kutina Alexandra, 12e2 Tutor: Korenkova Marianna Maximovna N. Novgorod 2015 In contemporary business life one of the relatively recent trends is the growing appeal of corporate and private investors to renewable energy. It is well-known fact that in current world people face the problems of scarcer petroleum reserves and global warming. Due to these burning issues, nowadays people pay more and more attention to developing alternative sources of energy. However, developing renewable and natural energy sources such as solar and wind powers, for instance, is believed to be time and money-consuming and unprofitable. There is still significant uncertainty associated with outputs of renewable technologies. This young industry also encounters difficulties with government support in many countries. As investors are always intend to make high returns in their investment it is really attention-grabbing to analyze their incentives and purposes, and observe the present-day situation on the market of renewable energy. Thus, it is important to find worthy arguments in support of the growing popularity of projects devoted to alternative energy powers. First of all, it is reasonable to track investment in renewable power and fuels. The chart below clearly demonstrates...
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...In the debate between Professor Andrea Larson and U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander called Is Renewable Energy Green? , I would have taken the side of Lamar Alexander. Both sides make valid points when talking about renewable energy as the future, especially analyzing the pros and cons of using wind mill farms to harness power for the United States. Senator Lamar Alexander uses the essay “Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America” to help address the issues of using certain types of renewable energies in a large scale as a solution to America’s energy shortage. He continues to address the varying amounts of land that will have to be used just to harness the renewable energy. The wind turbines can be over 50 stories high creating disturbances in the local environment such as loud noise, wasted space, and intense lighting. It is estimated that a 1.5 megawatt wind turbine will take up around 90 acres of land and, according to the reading, 186,000 1.5 megawatt wind turbines are required to represent 20% of America’s electricity. In other words wind turbines are not the answer to America’s electricity production due to the overall land consumption of these turbines. Also wind is only available where it wants to be available. In the mid-west, where there is room to make a wind turbine farm, wind can be unpredictable and sometimes barely there. Like it says in the reading, along the coast is obviously where there is a...
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