Coal power in China

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    petroleum, natural gas, and coal. They are three major use resources in the past few decades. The reason for them to be the main resources because they can transfer into different energies. So that make them to be more ways to use in our daily. In the past few decades to present, and maybe in the future, we will still heavily use them. From the article U.S. Energy: Overview and Statistics mentions, “Consumption of major energy resources—petroleum, natural gas, and coal, as well as nuclear and…

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    (Investor 's Business Daily 2014). Moreover, Obama 's so-called "War on Coal" has proven to be controversial because the U.S. already has large amounts of coal, while solar energy only accounts for 0.1% of America 's net electricity generated (US Official News 2014b). Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell has been working with contacts outside of Congress to ensure legal delays on Obama 's proposed solar projects to ensure the livelihood of coal related jobs in his state (Davenport 2015). However,…

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    The world has solely relied on fossil fuels to supply us energy. Alone petroleum, coal, natural gas, and oil makes up eighty-one percent of the United States of America’s energy. If the world does not push to use alternative energy, eventually completely switching to alternative energy, leaving fossil fuels in the past, we will never stop some of the environmental problems contributed with burning fossil fuels. Some of the harsh environmental problems are air pollution, water pollution, and oil…

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    solving it, is nuclear power. Nuclear power holds the key for lasting electricity, healthier life, and a healthier environment. According to Climate Nasa’s article on nuclear power, coal and gas are far more harmful to humans and the environment (http://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/) than nuclear power. Coal and fossil fuel burning emit harmful air-pollutants that have caused climate change and risked human life. In addition, replacing cheap energy resources with nuclear power plants can avoid…

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    Nuclear Energy Program

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    2013, around 3,831 billion kilowatt hours were consumed by the U.S alone ("Use of Electricity"). All of this energy is produced primarily by industrial and manufacturing facilities ("Use of Electricity"). With this, most of our electricity comes from coal ("Why Clean Energy”), and although a good amount of electricity comes from renewable sources, I believe it’s not enough. When these fossil fuels are burned, harmful gases are released into the atmospheres. ("Why Clean Energy”). Due to these…

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    Do you know why Tang Dynasty is called "The Golden Time"of China?Some one may think China became prosperous in the gold rush.The Tang Dynasty is the golden time of China because Chinese made a big revolution into different area,such as literature and politic . In A.D.618,one of the Yang Di’s generals took over China.he made himself emperor and founded a new dynasty called Tang Dynasty.(connect2)There was quite simply,nothing like it in the world.At its height-around the eight century C.E-the…

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    Electric Car Environment

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    University of Minnesota to illustrate his claim. The result of the study shows that electric cars equipped with renewable electricity are responsible for 231 deaths and power from natural-gas-fired stations are 439 deaths per year, while the deaths caused by gasoline cars are 878. However, the vehicles recharged by electricity from coal can lead to over 3,000 deaths. The purpose of the author is probably to contradicts the general belief that electric cars are cleaner than petrol…

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    government to control the world, it must have adequate power. China is progressively contracting its economic muscles to affirm itself…

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    one mother Earth is relying on to save the nonrenewable fuels, such as coal. Renewable energy sources, like solar energy, are very useful resources that many do not take advantage of because of the limited amount of information that is known about its benefits in terms of environmental, economical, and time factors. Cooking coal, also known as metallurgical coal, can be used for processes like steel production. Coal comes from very old plants that had lived hundreds of years ago in…

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    China's Water Crisis Dbq

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    What Is Driving China’s Water-Scarcity Crisis? What is China’s water scarcity? China has recently gone through a period of time with a lack of water. But the real mystery is what has caused the water scarcity? Let's discuss. Since China has recently gone into a water scarcity, a lot of problems have now rose such as having some of its farmable land not having water which can cause famine. There are three main causes or factors of China’s water scarcity crisis: Global Warming, Population…

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