Energy

electricity more than any previous generation. With the use of cell phones, cars, laptops, etc. energy is something that is used all twenty four hours of the day, this makes it easier for energy to be wasted. “The U.S. has an energy efficiency of 42 percent, which means 58 percent of all the energy we produce is wasted!” ( Battaglia, Sarah) There have been very creative ideas of evolving the currently used energy that is at this point depleting, but they have not been put into enough use.…

Solar Energy, the Superior Alternative Energy Fossil fuels are bad for our environment, and in an economy that is struggling, there is no point in pouring billions of dollars a year into an energy source that is killing our other resources. This kind of spending and reckless destruction of our environment will eventually have to stop. The question is, when burning burning fossil fuels ultimately ceases, where will we turn? There are many forms of alternative energy that are accessible to us…

source of electricity. Furthermore, the environmental impacts of nuclear power are minimal compared to the impact of fossil fuel sources. All though clean energy sources like wind and solar do not have any of the safety and environmental drawbacks of nuclear energy they don’t come close to being able to fill the energy gap left by nuclear energy. There are many options for the disposal and handling of spent nuclear fuel. One of said option is the storing of the waste in geological…

Renewable energy is one of the quickest and largest-grown energy sources for the generation of electricity. Many states in the United States were already started use them to replace the enormous amount of use of coal. However by gaining the using of the renewable energy, each states needed to start build up more and more grids to maintain these electricity. One best example is California. As the article described, California is one of those states which took the first step to use more renewable…

Energy policy in America has been a constant and changing evolution; every administration has had their own spin on what is best for America. In this essay we will take a look at the difference between the current administrations (President Barack Obama) and the previous administration (President George W. Bush) and more precisely how they enacted and interrupted the Energy Policy Act of 2005 or EPAct. When President Bush took Office in the early 2001 the country had been in turmoil with its…

was to observe how the law of conservation of energy applies to a roller coaster system. In doing this we were able to determine the velocity of the cart as a function of its height upon the roller coaster, find the kinetic and potential energy for each trial of the cart and conclude energy loss due to friction. The results from part one concluded that as the roller coaster cart went down a hill the potential energy was converted into kinetic energy that resulted in an increase of speed. When…

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…

Department of Energy started to fully control the energy of the U.S. on October 1st, 1977. It has been dealing in the history of the United States since the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was another name for the U.S. creating atomic weapons during World War 2. After the war, the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 created the Atomic Energy Commission, which took over the complex of the Manhattan Engineer District. In the mid-1970s, the needs of the people were changing, which led to the Energy…

researches conducted by Energy Commission of Nigeria and 9 Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) have concluded that 100% stable power supply from 10 renewable energy is possible in Nigeria. Yobe State (relatively rural and under developed state) 11 is located in North Eastern part of Nigeria with Damaturu as state capital. The capital itself is 12 facing serious power crisis, not getting even an hour of electricity from the…

II. Energy balance model The methodology adopted has been used to predict the heating and cooling requirements of different buildings. Energy needs, expressed in Kilowatt-hour (kWh) are given commonly by equation 1: (01) In the heating season, equation 1 is simplified as follows: (02) In the cooling season, equation 1 is transformed into the following form: (03) During inter-seasons periods, if the heat generated by energy sources (lights, occupants and their activities) is higher than the…