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(Opening Paragraph - One) Energy is and has been in a high quality demand for all over the world. Since August (2015) the energy rate for Indiana has gone up 11.46% in the last seven months rapidly. It is a struggle to be able to find safe, cheap, and renewable resources in order to build around Southern Indiana. Using Geothermal, Hydroelectric, and Nuclear Fission Energy would be a useful and affordable source of energy for a town similar to Scottsburg because all of theses resources have a…

“No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change” (Obama). Since the 1750’s Industrial Revolution, human activity has contributed substantially to the noxious warming of Earth’s atmosphere; the United States’ extensive burning of fossil fuels and its subsequent emission of greenhouse gases have consumed an equivalent to 7% of our GDP in 2006 alone, and an estimated $9 trillion in pollution-induced illness in just the past 30 years (Environment America). An…

Does Your Furnace’s Oil Tank Have A Leak? What You Need To Know If you use oil to heat your home, there will be a tank either underground or above ground for storing the oil. Once the furnace is turned on, oil flows from the tank to the furnace through copper pipes. The oil burns, and provides your home with heat. Unfortunately, there can be a problem with this oil tank leaking. Here is what you need to know about this problem. When Your Oil Tank Is Underground Leaks are harder to figure out…

Residue Mining- Obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine Ex: Coal, ore, gold, silver, or copper 7. Describe these three big category types of mining: Surface mining (list 3 examples), Subsurface mining (list 3 examples), and in-situ leach mining used for uranium and copper.- Surface mining- Digs at locations close to the Earth’s surface. Strip mining, open-pit mining, and mountaintop removal mining. Subsurface mining- Digs down deep below Earth’s surface. Longwall coal mining, Room and…

Suppose your computer system was ruined or damaged by a simple power surge. Imagine your business needed to be shut down temporarily because an electrical surge damaged all your equipment. What could happen to your business if an employee error damaged your only production machine? Even broken water pipes can cause a lot of damage. You may not expect them, but any of these things could happen. It's easy to see why insuring your business's equipment is a smart move. If your business equipment…

Other methods of acquiring energy like burning coal, natural gas, or petroleum create a substantial amount of smog, acid rain, and toxic air pollution. The continuous burning of these fossil fuels is leading the earth into an accelerated global warming cycle and pushing many species into extinction along with us if we are not careful. A large coal-burning plant on average every year produces 11 million tons of carbon dioxide while using 3 million tons of coal. Not only do these power plants…

events and personas with a comical slant. ‘Proving That is Easy to Produce Clean Coal’ was a political cartoon by the authors affiliated with Inkcinct. This cartoon was published in The Australian on the 2nd of February 2017. It was used against the Turnbull Government when the Liberal – National Coalition announced that it would be easy to produce clean coal while having a beneficial profit to loss ratio. Turnbull’s clean coal approach was announced without scientific theory and in contrasted…

Though effectiveness and availability for desalination technology has been highly evaluated, why do some people oppose it? There are two objections against desalination technology. First, the process of desalinating seawater uses a lot of fossil fuel energy, so the cost management becomes very expensive, and it also increases greenhouse gas emissions. However, using renewable energy, which can be classified as solar, wind, photovoltaic, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower, has the potential for…

total of 283 million tons of coal were mined, providing about 64% of the state’s electrical production (Reese and Loughlin, 61).” Mining has caused severe environmental impacts ranging from the toxic chemicals seeping into the watershed, the altering of landscapes, and large amounts of waste (Reese and Loughlin, 61). New laws have been developed in order to reverse the negative trends from mining, which include the following: Abandoned Mine Land law, Open Cut Land Reclamation Act, Surface Mining…

Coal is one of the primary energy sources in the United States. The US Energy Information Agency reported in 2009 that coal counts for 23% of the total energy use in the US. However coals is a finite resource,harmful to the environment and also affects human lives. Scientists predict that supply of coal will deplete in a century and the use of coal is harmful to the environment in that the mining of coal degrades land, it pollutes air, causes heating of lakes and rivers, and causes health issues…