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Energy Resources

Energy Resources. Solar. Renewable Advantages: Battery Chargers Can Charge The Solar Panels Over Night . They Do Not Make A Single Noise. Very Little Maintenance Is Needed. Disadvantages: Need Larger Areas, Which Makes The Cost Increase.

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Energy Resources

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  1. Energy Resources

  2. Solar Renewable • Advantages: Battery Chargers Can Charge The Solar Panels Over Night. • They Do Not Make A Single Noise. • Very Little Maintenance Is Needed. • Disadvantages: Need Larger Areas, Which Makes The Cost Increase. • Pollution Makes The Photovoltaic Cells Harder To Read The Sun. Clouds Also Do The Same. • Only Useful When Sun Is Shining. • Certain Types Of Buildings Or Areas Can Cause To Have The Photovoltaic Cells Not Be able To Read The Sun As Well.

  3. Solar Power Nellis Solar Power Plant, the largest photovoltaic power plant in North America. The world's largest solar energy dish at the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center in SdeBoker, Israel. The third method, known as passive solar

  4. Hydro Electric Renewable • Advantages: Endless fuel source • Minimal environmental impact • Reliable source--relatively useful levels of energy production • Can be used throughout the world • Disadvantages: Smaller models get less energy from the fast moving river flow. • Run of the river plants can impact the mobility of fish and other river life. • Building a fish ladder can decrease negative hydroelectric power

  5. Hydro Electric hydroelectric power doesn't necessarily require a large dam. • GE invests $6 Billion in renewable energy The Hoover Dam, which provides electricity for Nevada, California and Arizona

  6. Wind Renewable • Advantages: Endless fuel source • No pollution • Often an excellent supplement to other renewable sources • Disadvantages: This source means low energy production--large numbers of wind generators (and large land areas) are required to produce useful amounts of heat or electricity • Only areas of the world with lots of wind are suitable for wind power generation • Relatively expensive to maintain

  7. Wind Texas has pulled ahead in the final stretch of getting the nation's first offshore wind farm

  8. Geo Thermal Non-Renewable\Renewable • Advantages: No pollution • Often an excellent power source to other renewable sources • Does not require structures such as solar panels or windmills to collect the energy--can be directly used to heat or produce electricity • Disadvantages: Not available in many locations • Not much power per vent

  9. Geo Thermal

  10. Coal Nonrenewable • Advantages: . The electricity produced from coal is not just enormous, but much more reliable than the other forms of energy • Unlike alternative energy sources, such as solar power and wind power, this source is not at all dependent on the weather • This source of energy can be safely stored, and it is possible to make arrangements for the time of emergency • Disadvantages: One of the biggest disadvantage of coal is air pollution • Many harmful gases, including carbon dioxide, sulfuric dioxide and ash, are released in the environment when coal is burned to produce energy • People say that the coal is one of the best among the fossil fuels, it doesn't mean that the coal deposits will be there forever.

  11. Coal

  12. Nuclear Nonrenewable • Advantages: The Earth has limited supplies of coal and oil. Nuclear power plants could still produce electricity after coal and oil become scarce. • Coal and oil burning plants pollute the air. Well-operated nuclear power plants do not release contaminants into the environment. • Disadvantages: Nuclear explosions produce radiation. The nuclear radiation harms the cells of the body which can make people sick or even kill them • Nuclear reactors also have waste disposal problems. Reactors produce nuclear waste products which emit dangerous radiation they could kill people who touch they cannot be thrown away like garbage.

  13. Nuclear

  14. Fossil Fuels Nonrenewable • Advantages: More environment friendly than coal. • Emits 45% less carbon dioxide than coal. • Safely stored and burned. • High heating value of 24,000 BTU per pound. • Can produce up to 24 hours of electricity per week. • Cheap • Disadvantages: Can run out. • Can be dangerous if handled carelessly (highly flammable). • Fossil fuel deaths are common because of high carbon dioxide. (if handled carelessly) • Transportation costs a lot. • Its extraction leaves large craters in the earth. • A cause for global warming.

  15. Fossil Fuels

  16. Bio-Fuel (Biomass) Renewable • Advantages: Available throughout the world. • Always available. • Growing biomass crops produce oxygen and eliminates carbon dioxide. • Less money spent on foreign oils. • Carbon dioxide is released when bio-fuel is being burned. It is taken in by plants. • Disadvantages: Research is needed to reduce the costs of production of biomass based fuels. • Is in some cases is a major cause of pollution.

  17. Bio-Fuel(Biomass)

  18. Opinion (Hydro-Electric) • I would choose hydro-electric power because it is a renewable power source. You can use it any where in the world. It does not do anything harmful to the earth. • I would also choose this power source because it is a reliable source. You would always have water.

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