Electricity generation

• The speakers for the guest presentation were Adrian Moreno and Bryce Gerick who were from the company CenterPoint Energy. Both speakers play a tremendous role within CenterPoint Energy, Adrian Moreno is the Service Area Manager and Bryce Gerick is the Associate Service Consultant. CenterPoint Energy’s main focuses includes electric transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution, and natural gas sales and services. They have been serving the community for over 150 years, have more than…

Three Mile Island It was the late 1970’s and nuclear energy was on the rise. The first full scale nuclear power plant built in the United States in 1958 was Shippingport, Pennsylvania. After the first power plant was built, there was an exponential increase in the amount of power plants being built, until March 28th, 1979 that is (CITATION). The Three Mile Island accident happened on that early spring morning. Three Mile Island accident was a series of failures that led to investigations and…

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…

remain the same. Transportation and electricity are the two major area that are consuming the scarce sources in our country. Transportation uses 56% of gasoline and electricity generally used 27% of natural gas in 20141. Gasoline and natural gas become less available as time goes by. Algae biodiesel can replace gasoline after 20 years. Nuclear power and coal power can provide baseload electricity; solar power and natural gas can use battery to provide the peak electricity. Algae can be produced…

On 11 March 2011, all international news broadcasts were fixated on Japan, for an unfortunate reason; a natural catastrophe that has struck the Tohoku region of Japan without warning. The calamity was instantaneously announced through viral videos, emails, Twitter feeds, social media and live broadcasts on both international and local Japanese news programs, with the global network news reporters clambering through the rubble (Bestor, 2013). This unprecedented natural disaster that has shocked…

Heat Recovery Steam Generator is a part of a power plant, which generates steam. The heat recovery steam generator used a gas turbine to operate, by using the flue (gas) from the exhaust of the gas turbine Figure 1. The heat exchanges process occurs between the boiler and exhaust gas, which is used to heat water in a boiler to raise the pressure of the steam. [1] In addition, the gas turbine is used for power source due to it has some advantages such as can be started quickly, can be easily…

indigenous to India that dream was more than realized with a proven track record of performance that has been acquiring benefits -72.BHEL continuously since 1971 to meet the needs of key sectors of the Indian economy in the sense, power transmission and generation, industry, transport, communications and renewable energy, and defense, and so extensive network of band 14 manufacturing BHEL, the energy sector, the four regional toured more than 150 project sites, eight service centers and 18…

with its cons and pros.What is nuclear energy ? Nuclear energy the energy that is in the nucleus which is also known as the core of the atom.Atoms are tiny tiny things little things that makes up all the matter .Nuclear energy is used to create electricity. For the energy to be used it must 1st be distributed from the atom. In nuclear fission atoms are split to release the energy. How does nuclear energy work? Similar to a fossil-fueled power plant or an oil plant water is turned into…

The two sides are debating the support or fear of nuclear power plants. After the events at Fukushima, the earthquake and tsunami, the power plant sickened a lot of people due to its radiation. Professor George Monbiot and Melissa Block discuss the opinion to support nuclear power plants. He states that if so many people can die or become injured due to mining, then how is that any different than people dying or becoming sick from nuclear waste radiation? He said that coal was a bigger issue…