spend some time researching how they work and if this investment is worth it. Like other environmentally-friendly options‚ there are many pros and cons of wind energy to weigh against one another. Pros •The creation of wind energy is "clean". Unlike the use of coal or oil‚ generating energy from the wind doesn’t produce pollutants or require any harmful chemicals. •Wind is free. If you live in a geographical location that receives plenty of wind‚ it is there for the taking. •As a renewable resource
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What’s Good and What’s Bad about Wave and Tidal Energy? Wave and Tidal energy‚ sometimes called ocean or marine energy‚ are forms of water power in addition to methods previously discussed in a previous article about hydropower: http://www.kidsdiscover.com/teacherresources/whats-good-and-whats-bad-about-hydropower/ However unlike hydroelectric dams‚ which harvest power by installing an artificial obstruction in a flowing waterway‚ wave and tidal energy devices simply use the power of the ocean waves
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Energy resources have had a widespread effect on everyday lives across the nation. Day by day from sunup to sundown about 30 percent of the world’s energy is being used by the United States. Ideally energy comes from the burning of fossil fuels and oils imported from across the globe. However‚ there has been various disputes on how the United States could find alternative energy sources for widespread use. Alternative energy is any form of energy used that is not fossil fuel that come from energy
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Pros and Cons of Nuclear Power What’s nuclear power’s biggest advantage? It doesn’t depend on fossil fuels and isn’t affected by fluctuating oil and gas prices. Coal and natural gas power plants emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere‚ which contributes to climate change. With nuclear power plants‚ CO2 emissions are minimal. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute‚ the power produced by the world’s nuclear plants would normally produce 2 billion metric tons of CO2 per year if they depended on
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Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy Debates and controversial issues are what keep countries all over the world connected. Ideas that were argued upon one hundred years ago are still argued upon today. One of these ideas is nuclear energy- should we or should we not use it at such a rate? Before an opinion can be reached‚ you must first weigh the pros and cons of this topic. Nuclear energy can be environmentally unsafe and can also be threatening‚ but at the same time it can benefit the progress and
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Energy is defined in physics as the capacity to make things move; it is widely used in today people’s residences‚ a variety of industries and technology fields. Most of the energy we use now comes from fossil fuels coal‚ oil and natural gas‚ which are being consumed more rapidly than they are being replaced. That means eventually we will use up these fuels. That is why we as a society need to broaden our research to develop new forms of energy resources are for this happens. There are kinds of
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it is recommended sex offenders involuntarily undergo chemical castration which will influence nonviolent society. This effect has the tendency of a non-threatening environment with its extended treatment on sex hormones to reduce the levels of testosterone‚ desires‚ and unwanted fantasies. Depending on the offender’s mental stability‚ they will be released from prison after this method. As members of our community‚ one should ask‚ “Is chemical castration an appropriate punishment for sex offenders
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development has been the idea of chemical weapons‚ especially those in the form of weaponized gasses. These weapons‚ which are defined as an “ammunition or device‚ specifically designed to cause death or other harm through toxic properties of toxic chemicals.” have the potential to cause an unprecedented amount of harm if their proliferation is not regulated. The presence of these weapons throughout history is all too familiar to many of the world’s nations. Early chemical weapons‚ such as Chlorine and
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The Inhumane Weapons of Warfare Chemical warfare is a barbaric weapon of war that should be banned from any war situation. Chemical Warfare is using any chemical or chemical mix that can physically or mentally harm a human being. It has been killing people for over 2600 years and was created by Spartans. “They grabbed burning sulfur pitch and threw it over the walls of Athens attempting to fill the city with toxic gas.”[6] They tried this because they had a small army that was trying to take over
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to the current energy sources we are using‚ our society is in desperate need of a new source of energy. Nuclear energy can be the answer to our country’s problems. In 1938‚ Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman conducted an experiment in which they hurdled a neutron at extremely high speeds towards the element uranium. This caused the nucleus of the atom to split‚ and from there neutrons continued to split other neutrons in a process known as fission. A chain reaction of sustained energy release was created
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