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Benjamin Franklin Lightning Rod
478 wordsBenjamin Franklin was born in the year 1706, in the city of Boston Mass. Ben was a great scientist, inventor and politician. With all of this going on Ben somehow also found time to be a father to his illegitimate son William, who he brought everywhere with him. The world today owes a lot to Benjamin Franklin. Science was one of Benjamins many interests. He was the one who first linked lightning and electricity. He did this in 1752 by flying a kite in a thunderstorm. The kite was being flown wit...
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Alternative Energy Sources Form Of Energy
1,449 wordsThe U. S. oil supply is rapidly diminishing. Alternative energy sources must be implemented because oil is a scarce and non-renewable resource. Each year the U. S. consumes 6. 2 billion barrels of oil, equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil each day (Coastal 67). The undiscovered U. S. OCS and gas resources combined with onshore reserves would amount to only 81. 5 billion barrels of oil, enough to last for 5000 days (Coastal 75). So the oil crisis is not entirely bad news, the U. S. still has t...
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Wind Turbines Generate Electricity
389 wordsWind energy is an unlimited source of energy. Many countries, including the United States, use wind energy to some degree. Wind turbines generate electricity by spinning in the wind. There are two main types of wind turbines: the horizontal axis variety and the vertical axis design. The horizontal type is the more common which looks like a traditional windmill. Electricity generated from wind turbines is fed into a local utility grid and distributed just like ordinary electricity. Some wind turb...
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Grand Coulee Columbia River
1,070 wordsThere are many different ways to harness the energy in water. The most common way of capturing this energy is hydroelectric power, which is just electricity created by falling water. The reason we are now searching for the new ways of energy particularly the way of water is because we need something that will last us longer than that of the fossil fuels that we are using this day in age. In the earlier years of Washington we needed a way to get energy in the PNW so we came up with the way of Hyd...
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Light Bulb Grolier Multimedia
1,351 wordsOn October 22, 1879 Thomas Edison created the electric light or what we know of it today as the light bulb. To make a statement like this that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb is both a huge hyperbole and a huge understatement all at the same time. A more correct view is that he perfected a practical light bulb and that his real plan and accomplishment was the invention of an electrical system to produce and distribute electrical power. He did in fact invent a light bulb with the correct fi...
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Nuclear Power Plants Amount Of Energy
1,616 wordsThe term Nuclear Reactor means an interaction between two or more Nuclei, Nuclear Particles, or Radiation, possibly causing transformation of the nuclear type; includes, for example, fission, capture, elastic container. Reactor means the core and its immediate container. Nuclear Reactors are used to produce electricity. The numbers of Nuclear Reactor plants have grown sufficiently. Electricity is being generated in a number of ways, it can be generated by using Thermal Power. It can be employed ...
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Source Of Energy Solar Cells
970 wordsSpace is filled with radiant energy and beyond earth's atmosphere this energy flow more steadily and more intensely from the sun than that which penetrates to the surface of the Earth. So an abundant and essential source of energy that would be used in space for the space colony would be solar radiation by developing satellite solar power stations. To live in space, humans must be protected from the fierce intensity and penetrating wavelengths of unattenuated sunlight, but this same energy is on...
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Source Of Energy Problem Of Global Warming
1,596 words... one saying goes - the gust of wind, created by the sway of butterfly's wings, can develop into a storm. At the same time, it opens a theoretical possibility for us to influence weather, for as long as we know all weather-inducing variables. There is also another way of achieving greater reliability of wind harvesting, as the source of energy. The article Wind Power Gathers Speed, which can be found on the site of Australian Academy of Science, gives us an insight on how it can be accomplishe...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Set An Example
739 wordsGlobal Warming Although several influential politicians have joined the band-wagon against global warming, more clout is needed to address this issue. It is an important matter that needs to be dealt with immediately. Global warming has put the earth in a dire situation, and dire situations call for drastic actions. What actions need to be taken to prevent the continuance of global warming? First of all, the Federal government needs to get involved. Laws should be made to promote energy efficien...
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Pollution And Environmental Protection 1
1,636 wordsPollution and Environmental Protection 1 1998 was the hottest in one thousand years, and the nine hottest years on record have all been in the past two decades. Humankind's actions on a global scale have changed not just the landscape of the Earth, but the world's climate too. Increasingly sophisticated measurements of the world's climate and weather systems have provided a wealth of evidence that the Earth has been getting steadily warmer. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, atmos...
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Utility Companies Electric Utility
2,194 wordsElectrical utility deregulation is the process of transforming electrical utility companies from regulated monopolies to market-driven suppliers of competitive energy and services. (Reliant Energy HL&# 038; P 1999) It means that customers will have the ability to choose their electrical supplier. Today? s utility customers want lower prices, more choice, and better service as well as reliability. The deregulation of other industries such as railroad, trucking, natural gas, and telecommunications...
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Federal And State Electric Utility
1,366 wordsElectricity is the principal force that powers modern society. It lights buildings and streets, runs computers and telephones, drives trains and subways, and operates all variety of motors and machines. Yet most people, despite their great dependence on electrical power, hardly give it a thought. They flip a switch, turn a key, or pick up a phone and expect the power to be there without fail. The almost-century old structure of the American electric utility industry is in need of change. Almost ...
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Utility Companies Electric Utility
1,855 wordsElectrical utility deregulation is the process of transforming electrical utility companies from regulated monopolies to market-driven suppliers of competitive energy and services. (Reliant Energy HL& P 1999) It means that customers will have the ability to choose their electrical supplier. Today? s utility customers want lower prices, more choice, and better service as well as reliability. The deregulation of other industries such as railroad, trucking, natural gas, and telecommunications h...
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President And Vice President Sources Of Energy
1,476 wordsThe rising cost of electricity and how it affects consumers in the Puget Sound. Puget sound receives it s energy from a number of different sources, namely, hydroelectric, fossil fuels and nuclear. Consumers in the Puget Sound have weathered the misery of massive price increases that have been passed on to them by the power consortium's. This is primarily due to, energy de-regulation in California, increased demand, increased profit margins by energy companies, drought and very effective lobbyis...
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Fuel Cells Carbon Dioxide
2,400 wordsThe purpose Fuel Cells Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to inform you why fuel cells are a good source of energy. In principle a fuel cell operates like a battery. Unlike batteries fuel cells dont run down or require recharging. In the first section the energy source will be defined and described. The three sub-sections are; how they work, current us, and the future of fuel cells. In the second section the two criteria chosen will be defined. The two criteria are environmental friendliness...
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Frequently Asked Questions United States Of America
3,462 wordsThe worst imaginable environmental catastrophe that could occur in Maryland has just become a reality. The lifeblood of Southern Maryland's Watermen has been forever affected. The ecosystems of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay have been irreversibly contaminated. The Three Mile Island and Chernobyl Nuclear Accidents have affected the world ecosystems; but the Chalk Point oil spill has reached us here in Southern Maryland. The ethical considerations with generating electricity from fossil fu...
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Fossil Fuels Global Warming
1,982 wordsThe Potential Markets Hydrogen ANALYSIS The Potential Markets For Non-Fossil Fuel Hydrogen? Hydrogen, most of it produced from fossil fuels, is already widely used in the chemicals industry, notably in the manufacture of fertilizers and petrochemicals. It would therefore be possible to substitute NFFH in this market. However, the total that could be absorbed by 2040 is unlikely to represent more than about 3 % of current total world energy demand. ? NFFH could be used to satisfy much of the dema...
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Hall Of Fame Department Of Defense
996 wordsNecessity is the mother of invention? or is it? The real mother of invention is not necessity, but curiosity. From the discovery of electricity, the invention of the light bulb, car, airplane, and air conditioning to Global Positioning Satellite systems curiosity has been the reason behind the invention. One of the greatest discoveries ever was the discovery of electricity. Ben Franklin has been given the most credit for the discovery of electricity. Before the legendary kite experiment in 1752 ...
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Play A Role Chemical Reactions
1,867 wordsPROBLEM: BATTERIES TEND TO FAIL AT EXTREME TEMPERATURES. TESTABLE QUESTION: HOW AND WHY DO DIFFERENT BATTERY TYPES FAIL AT EXTREME TEMPERATURES? ELECTRO CHEMISTY BATTERY FAILURE HONORS CHEMISTY RESEARCH PROJECT HISTORY OF THE BATTERY The battery s origins may be followed back to very ancient times. We know that many of the wise men could have been exploring and testing electricity. For example, a clay vase, thought to be several thousand years old, was discovered in 1932 near Baghdad. It contain...
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Municipal Solid Waste Fossil Fuels
2,779 wordsSources of Energy Have you ever thought about how we get the energy to run the things we take for granite every single day. There are many sources of energy that that are used for transportation, heat, light, and the manufacturing of goods of all kinds. The development of science and civilization is closely linked to the availability of energy in useful forms. The seven main energy sources are fossil fuels, hydroelectric, solar power, win power, geothermal, nuclear power, and biomass energy. By ...
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