In upcoming time there is a serious threat on fossil fuels like diesel, petrol and natural gases, because all these fuels are non renewable forms of energy. These source of energy depleted very rapid rate and after some decades they completely exhausted so we should have to prepare to face this challenges. Alternative energy will become increasingly important as fossil fuel supplies inevitably run out or environmental damage sparks consumer awareness. The search for a viable energy alternative will
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The increasing world consumption of fossil-fuel, its greenhouse effects, and other unfriendly enviromental impacts encouraged humans to seek new alternatives that can offer the ability to generate elecricity in a renewable, clean, economical, and environmentally protectable way.This resulted in a great deal of attention that focuses on research related to renewable energy technologies such as organic solar cells (OSCs). OSCs have the potential of providing law cost renewable energy with a reasnoable
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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
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4.4 PV Sector As the country’s economy grows and rapid urbanization, the need of more energy is required to fuel the increased level of activity. One of the driver to deploy additional capacity from the urgent need of energy is to harness the country’s RE sector particularly the solar energy. Solar was forecasted to be an instant solution to the whooping energy supply challenge of the country, since it is considered as a cost-effective technology. Thus, the country founded a non-profit organization
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1.1 INTRODUCTION: Solar energy has the greatest potential of all the sources of renewable energy. If only a small amount of this form of energy could be used, it will be one of the most important supplies of energy specially when other sources in the country have depleted energy comes to the earth from the sun. This energy keeps the temperature of the earth above than in colder space, causes current in the atmosphere and in ocean. It causes the water cycle and generates photosynthesis in plants
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Biofuels are becoming an increasingly important alternative to traditional forms of energy Even though production of biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, is rapidly increasing, their contribution to total fuel consumption will remain limited. Biofuels are sources of energy produced directly or indirectly from organic material including animal waste and plant material. In order to be considered a biofuel, at least 80% of the fuel must be made from renewable materials. There are 3 main types of
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ELCT 361 Extra Credit Project Xuetan Liu April 15, 2016 Electricity is really important in our life. After a couple hours of losing electricity, you feel so stressful without lights, electric heat or TV (Tom Harris, 2003). An electromagnetic bomb, or e-bomb is a weapon that can destroy most machines that use electricity. That means, “generators would be useless, cars wouldn’t run and there would be no chance of making a phone call” (Tom Harris, 2003). An electromagnetic bomb uses an intense electromagnetic
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The next day, after the meeting with Mrs Graves, I toured the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Brock Environmental Center. This structure is, currently, aiming for the Living Building Challenge certification which takes about one year for it to accomplish since they have to test it for its LBC properties. I had five takeaways from the tour: Renewable Energy, building envelope, Heat-Ventilation and Air Conditioning, Design, and Recycling and Reuse of Resources. Walt showed me renewable energy of CBF,
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that we are currently facing, which is Climate Change. By applying the Osborn’s (1979) Creative Problem-Solving-process, together with creative thinking tools, this essay explore the way’s that we as an individual can come up with to reduce our consumption and change our habits to achieve a significant sustainable reduction in our personal energy use .This is achieved by identifying a problem, then generating ideas, then evaluating the potential solution the problem. The first step to Osborn’s (1979)
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Abstract Years to come, coal will not always be the main source of energy. It will soon run out and other ways to produce energy will be needed. There are different ways to produce this type of energy, such as solar power, wind power, and hydroelectric power. If corrected and created now, then ways to get energy other than coal in the far future will be one less thing to worry about. Alternative Source of Energy Source of Energy A big discussion today is what humans can turn to now and
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