shareholders investments, and prepares the company to compete. Vectren’s top three competitors in Ohio are Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., The East Ohio Gas Company, and Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. However, a recent competition of large wind systems renewable resources argues, “All electricity systems must respond to a complex interplay of constantly changing supply and demand…the costs of fossil fuels and nuclear power will likely rise in the long-term as coal, natural gas, and uranium become scarcer, whereas the
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Nonrenewable Energy Sources Chinita Johnson COM/220 Marla Muse December 12, 2012 Are You Ready to Live Without Nonrenewable Energy Sources What will you do when your lights go out because there are no more fossil fuels to fuel the electricity needs of our nation? As many of us have dealt with power outages for one reason or another, they were usually for a very short period of time that may have seemed like forever. For the past few decades there has been
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need priority because: 1) the overwhelming scientific evidence that anthropological emissions of greenhouse gases from carbon combustion threaten catastrophic results from rapid climate change; 2) the severe health and environmental consequences from fossil fuel combustion being experienced
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experts. These same experts claim that, "Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists" (Bergeron, 2009). Almost all of the research put into this topic leads to the fact that it is the right thing to do and that it is what's best for our world. Experts are all for a clean energy source and the move of our world away from depending upon fossil fuels. The question is not, "why do we want or need to move to clean energy?" It is, "How are
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Chapter 8: Renewable Energy Sources The Sustainability Revolution John C. Ayers "In a sense, the fossil fuels are a one-time gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and should eventually lead us to a future based on renewable resources." Kenneth Deffeyes (2001) "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." — Thomas Edison, 1931 We cannot create or destroy energy. We can only
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Their competitors include Hanwha Q Cells Co, JinkoSolar Holding Co, Trina Solar Ltd, and a newer entrant, Vivint Solar Inc. In the past, efforts to move the world towards solar energy have faced a series of challenges but seem to differ in priority between societies in the developing world. Countries that are known to be more economically deprived have focused on the use of fossil fuels because of their reliability and ease of use. In areas like the U.S., people have been hesitant to adopt solar
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preserve human growth as well as Earth’s growth. Another viewpoint is that by depleting more of these fossil fuels for consumption, whether it is for personal use or industrial use, humans are polluting the air with toxic materials. Toxic materials such as lead, nitrogen oxides, sulfuric oxide, carbon oxides (carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide), hydrocarbons, and ozone are by-products of fossil fuel combustion polluting the air that is affecting Earths atmosphere. Slightly increased temperatures
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countries rely on it financially. Investing time and money in alternate energy source has potential rewards for the consumer and ultimately the sustainability of our planet. The possibility of being able to replace a fossil fuel such as oil would be a turn of the century. Fossil fuels are non-renewable in which it cannot be replace or replaced a very slow rate. Once it is used it is all gone (Turk & Bensel, 2011). At the rate of oil being used it is unable to replace itself in the natural process
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biofuel, nuclear energy, and hydroelectric power. The first alternative that will be discussed is algae biofuel. In essence algae biofuels are the same as normal fuels except that the components of the fuel are organic and biological rather than fossil fuel based. Production is caused through a series of chemical reactions and is nontoxic and renewable. Algae sources can be re-replaced through more farming. The standard production method consists of planting lots of algae pods and letting them interact
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Switching from the expensive oil to alternative fuels has moved from a dream to reality. Today, there are dozens of alternatives to oil that are currently available us to be used. One alternative to oil that is being used more today is ethanol. Derived from plant materials, ethanol can be a cheaper, cleaner alternative to the gasoline that our vehicles run off. When going to gas pumps, one will notice that much of the gasoline is up to 10 percent of ethanol. According to our text, most ethanol in
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