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Recent reports by the United States Energy Department confirm wind energy is the fastest growing power source in America, producing 4.4% of our electricity in 2014. In President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address on January 20th, he proudly proclaimed that, “America is number one in wind power” (qtd. in Gillin). Unfortunately, even as President Obama pushes for tax credits in the wind energy industry, many citizens as well as congressman are resisting the surge of “going green”. This…

Solar Energy As a nation, we have the responsibility to provide for ourselves in the most effective and least harmful way possible. Our current reliance on fossil fuels is hindering us from this and needs to end. Renewable energy is the way of the future and should be held more valuable. In particular, solar energy is the cleanest and most abundant renewable energy resource we currently have available to us in the United States. There needs to be programs and regulations put into place that can…

Coal power plants are one of the top polluting sources of carbon dioxide in the world, just behind vehicle emissions. The article ‘Coal power: pollution, politics, and profits’ states that the “Negative health effects on the nearby human population, plant life, and wildlife have been hard to quantify precisely and thoroughly, and are generally not included in the cost of coal power to the consumer” (Laskowski). Due to this, the general population is not aware of how destructive this power source…

POLLUTION The pollution that is produced through our current energy generation techniques is terrifying. With dangerous pollutants such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium all coming from different forms of coal, how do we prevent these pollutants? As well, one must remember the problem with carbon emissions. Coal is anywhere from 35 to 86% carbon (Fox, 2014). This produces dangerous greenhouse gases that lead to rising ocean currents, ocean acidification, and rising yearly average…

Our group project was based around up and coming solar technologies. The research we did as a group were framing ways that our world can collect the suns energy and make a useful output. I did my research on The Tesla Powerwall. Tesla Motors is an automobile manufacturer that has a concentration in electric motors. By producing cars with an electric motor is decreasing air pollution. The effects of air pollution are, and can be very devastating. Tesla thrives on making these motors silent and…

Globalized Issue: Pollution With the escalation in its severity in recent years, society is increasingly gaining understanding on the global issue of air pollution. Air pollution is the contamination of the air as a result of smoke, dust, and essentially, harmful gases mixed into the atmosphere. People from all around the world are growing more concerned with the issue of air pollution each day, thanks to the emphasis the media has placed on it. As society develops awareness and grows…

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is one power technology of those attractive new energy storage technologies. It aggregated those vehicles with battery (Hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, and plug- in hybrid electric vehicles) into the grid as a distributed resource of energy load, storage and generation device. It is not only adding the ability to deliver power from vehicle to the grid, but also can apply the power flow (Lund & Kempton, 2008). V2G technology provides potential solutions…

The United States has been a world leader in the energy industry since the Industrial Revolution and have fostered the creation of many new forms of energy since then. The recent evaluation of global climate change by environmentalists has pushed the energy sector to a corner. They have called for more "clean" energy sources (ones that release little to no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere) to replace the aging coal, oil, and natural gas power plants. Some examples of these clean energy…

“Scientists and industry experts may disagree over how long the world 's supply of oil and natural gas will last, but it will end”, Collins said. As of 2014 the United States consumes and burns about 374.74 million gallons per day. As the nation begins to deplete their non-renewable resources, they are forced to search for a permanent replacement that will continue to power all of North America and other countries worldwide. However,the government will have to transition all of america into a…

Power of Nuclear Energy What if the world was powered by nuclear power cleaner than coal and cheaper than most power? This question was never really been asked because people are to scared. When they hear nuclear energy they think of all the bad thing nuclear energy has instead of the good thing about it. Like how nuclear energy has no greenhouse gases or smog. This are good points on how nuclear energy is good, but people only remember the bad thing. Since nuclear energy is clean, inexpensive…