When assessing my own energy usage I found that my home uses propane to heat and cook, and electricity for lights and the water heater. When I am at work we use electricity only, since we do not have a kitchen and our heating is an electric furnace as well as the water heater. When I am traveling to and from work I use gasoline in the car to assist on my journey. However, my area does have another form of travel which is the MARC train. The MARC train uses electricity when traveling to and from the different train stations. All five of these energy usages are technically considered nonrenewable energy resources. There are two other renewable energy resources in my area that is used. The first renewable resource is that some homes in my
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It helps with keeping the electricity price down. It is a renewable, green source of energy with huge potential. Some disadvantages to wind power are the cost to place a turbine and the noise it makes. Turbines are a threat to wild life and wind is unpredictable, so it may not generate any power (Maehlum, 2013). Conowingo dam is a hydroelectric facility that provides clean energy to locals in the area. It offers a cheap source of energy to home and is constant source for energy. However hydroelectric facilities can have some disadvantages if a draught ever happens or if the company relocates. Aquatic movement is limited unless the flood gates are open. An initial construction cost to open one is high and is hard to get approved to build one because of the time it takes to pay back the loan (“Hydroelectric pros and cons,” 2008). Waste to energy facility advantages has a huge impact on communities by clearing out old landfills to use the trash as a form of energy. Since these facilities use discarded materials it is a cheap way to have another energy source. This type of source will always be reliable due to people will always have waste. As with all advantages there are disadvantages too. Some disadvantages are the facilities are expensive to construct and people are not sold on that these facilities are considered clean from emissions (“Waste to energy pros and cons,” …show more content…
Dams used to be watermills to harvest energy from. Water wheels were difficult to distribute energy for long distances (“Water power,” 1998). Wind mills we only used to grind grains in the past. In today’s era, they have been repurposed to help as an alternate source of clean energy which has now been renamed as wind turbines. Solar power is not new technology and can be dated back to the seventh century B.C. when they used magnify glasses to make fires and burn ants. In today’s time period, we use solar power for solar farm plants to help bring a cost efficient energy source to homes (“The solar history,”
It helps with keeping the electricity price down. It is a renewable, green source of energy with huge potential. Some disadvantages to wind power are the cost to place a turbine and the noise it makes. Turbines are a threat to wild life and wind is unpredictable, so it may not generate any power (Maehlum, 2013). Conowingo dam is a hydroelectric facility that provides clean energy to locals in the area. It offers a cheap source of energy to home and is constant source for energy. However hydroelectric facilities can have some disadvantages if a draught ever happens or if the company relocates. Aquatic movement is limited unless the flood gates are open. An initial construction cost to open one is high and is hard to get approved to build one because of the time it takes to pay back the loan (“Hydroelectric pros and cons,” 2008). Waste to energy facility advantages has a huge impact on communities by clearing out old landfills to use the trash as a form of energy. Since these facilities use discarded materials it is a cheap way to have another energy source. This type of source will always be reliable due to people will always have waste. As with all advantages there are disadvantages too. Some disadvantages are the facilities are expensive to construct and people are not sold on that these facilities are considered clean from emissions (“Waste to energy pros and cons,” …show more content…
Dams used to be watermills to harvest energy from. Water wheels were difficult to distribute energy for long distances (“Water power,” 1998). Wind mills we only used to grind grains in the past. In today’s era, they have been repurposed to help as an alternate source of clean energy which has now been renamed as wind turbines. Solar power is not new technology and can be dated back to the seventh century B.C. when they used magnify glasses to make fires and burn ants. In today’s time period, we use solar power for solar farm plants to help bring a cost efficient energy source to homes (“The solar history,”