P110/120: Energy/Energy & Technology Fall 2015 Homework 03 P110/120 Homework assignment HW03 1. Can you cool a kitchen by leaving the refrigerator door open? Why or why not? No. Leaving the door open would cause the refrigerator to run more. When a refrigerator runs, more heat will be put out of the metal coils. The coolness from the inside will be temporary. More heat will be put off as it runs. 2. Why is a condenser needed in a steam electric plant? Why isn’t it better to just…
Three mile island is a very important nuclear generating station. We depend on this resource for electricity, electricity is highly important to us because we use it for everything.The government is considering shutting it down, because it hasn't been profitable for the past five years! My opinion is the government shouldn't shut down TMI because, They are actually benefiting from it because it gives the state $1.1million a year for property taxes. If we continue to have it open then we can…
then lowered into the oil well, at a spot closest to the oil”(Manfreda, 2015, para. 6). This method that Edward created increased oil production by approximately 1200 percent. Roberts then decided to name this company that he created, Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company, when he started this company he charged $100-$200. “Even though the birth of fracking began in the 1860s, the birth of modern day hydraulic fracturing began in the 1940s. In 1947, Floyd Farris of Stanolind Oil and Gas began a…
Visiting West Virginia and watching “The Last Mountain” shared the life experience of people living in area of mountaintop coal removal. In class we were first introduced to the lives of West Virginia's through the film, which did an amazing job showing the lives of family that have lived there for generations, the massive explosions of MTR, the effects of Massey Coal company, the schools, and all the protests. The film was able to capture many different perspective in one film. It is clear to…
Although Ms. Lucia Hernandez talks about the benefits of fracking and why is America's energy solution; however, a letter to the editor presents an opposing, negative view of the process. Ms. Hernandez proves more convincing, because she uses reliable statistic and facts, while the opposing part only expresses her own opinion. To begin, the opposing party states, " Up to 40,000 gallons of chemicals are used in each fracking operation, containing a toxic bath of 600 chemicals like mercury…
explain that this was the only option at this point whether anyone liked it or not. The United States is on their toes trying to figure out the best routes to go to create energy: solar and wind, coal, or nuclear. Solar and wind are found to soon die out and have nothing left to support the United States. Coal is a resource which we are running low on and soon will not be able to find, then we have nuclear which can solve most of our problems without running out. The United States should use…
The company did not comply with the ethical standards, policies, regulations, and laws that govern the professional practice of the industrial hygiene. Given the workers were initially supposed to dig the tunnel, their sole responsibility was carry out the digging…
The two key attributes of atomic parting critical for the down to earth arrival of atomic vitality are both apparent in the second comparison above. In the first place, the vitality per parting is huge. In commonsense units, the splitting of 1 kg (2.2 lb) of uranium-235 discharges 18.7 million kwh as warmth. Second, the splitting procedure started by the retention of one neutron in uranium-235 discharges around 2.5 neutrons, on the normal, from the split cores. The neutrons discharged in this…
Has the world grown so dependent upon nuclear power energy that it ignores the price tag? Power reaped from nuclear energy by heating and pressuring water is known as nuclear power. Controversies surrounding nuclear power come in various forms, however, the financial aspect is grand. In their recent work, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a nonprofit organization composed of numerous scientists, discovered actual costs of implementing nuclear power as an energy source. Within the article…
Uranium was first discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth. It was formed in supernovas about 6.6 billion years ago. Uranium is one of the heavier elements on the periodic table, being 18.7 times as dense as water. It is element number 92 and this specific isotope has 235 nucleons. This indicates to us that Uranium 235 has 92 protons, 92 electrons, and 143 neutrons. Uranium’s slow radioactive decay is the main source of heat inside the earth, causing convection and continental drift. Uranium 235…