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The talk about using nuclear power as a new energy source has been a big discussion amongst many. Many shared their views on nuclear energy being our new soce of power. Negative and positive feedback from many articles, professors, funders, and ordinary people have made it hard to come to an agreement on whether or not to move forward with making nuclear power the new source of energy. Events such as the one in Fukushima and the radiation spill in Pennsylvania have caused many to fear and fight…

Water used to be the most common substance that could be found anywhere in the world, but as of lately that hasn't been the case. It is been getting harder and harder to fulfill our need of water. In the excerpt “Water Controversies Boil Over” written by Mat Weiser, published in April 26, 2009 he talks about how people are starting to fight over water and how 46 nations risk violent conflicts over water. Weiser explains how the United Nations stated that in the future there won't be conflicts…

on of which was the creation of gas. Gas is a result of a process which extracts lubricating and fuel oil were removed from crude oil. France, Germany, and Austria, early in the nineteenth century, began developing internal combustion engines. Nicholaus August Otto, a German, created a gas-powered four stroke engine in the mid 1860’s. One of his employees later perfected an engine which could be used in automobiles. Charles and Frank Duryea built the first the gas-driven vehicle in 1893 three…

Recently, the New York Times published an article that left people both stunned and amused and unlike some of their articles it dealt with...trash. Apparently, more than one hundred and eleven million dollars have been spent and invested in the recycling industry. Now why would someone spend one hundred and eleven million dollars on the recycling industry one may ask, the answer is simple... economy benefits. Recycling can lower capital cost, make us use 80 to 90 percent less energy, lower our…

Many climate scientists believe that human beings are the cause of climate change 1. Impacts of climate change are involved in natural environment, human health, etc 3. Examples of impacts of climate change are higher temperature, increase in sea level, wildlife at risk, more drought and floods, bushfires, decrease in economy, higher chances of getting heart diseases, etc. Collin Kelley who is a climatologist stated that conflicts occur is not only because of climate change but it is also due to…

During the Stone Age, there existed always two main forms of living, existing in the forms of nomadic or sedentary, nomadic lifestyle including travel or the definitive migration described by the term directly. Specifically, there are many differentiates between the spurred northward migration and the more gradually spread agricultural life, regarding how both came to be common in their respective eras. While the northward migration was acted upon quickly, and depended on the humans of the time,…

The argument between diesels and gas has gone on for years. Diesel, which is being used in almost every industry from agricultural to moving goods down highways and railroads. Diesel tends to get better gas mileage and has better output for horsepower and torque. While, gets slightly lower gas mileage but the retail cost of gas is cheaper. Critics of diesel claim that diesel should not be used, because in early diesel engines emitted large amounts of nitrogen oxide. Since the EPA (environmental…

There are many uses of fire in our daily lives. Humanity uses fire as a source of heat, the use of lighting, for cooking, and as source of energy. In "Great Expections" Charles Dickens uses fire in the book for those specific reasons as well but he also uses uses it as a good reference of emotion. A good example of a common use of fire in "Great Expectations" is blacksmithing. Fire provides a livelihood for Joe at the forge. Another example, Joe relaxes in the comforting warmth in the evenings.…

review the key theories behind surge-type behaviour in glaciers and their significance in explaining the present-day distribution of Earth’s surging glaciers; Introduction Surge glaciers are a poorly understood glacier type, different literatures describe them as different thing and many differ on their formation, causes and even what can be classified as a surge glacier. One definition is “a glacier that switches between phases of rapid and slow flows on a timescale ranging between a few years…

Both in present times til this very day ,the mining of coal has been a dangerous but much needed job to have in the United States. Without coal , a lot of things wouldn't be possible because coal is the main reason something works. Thus in order to get the coal , miners have to dig for it and extract it from the ground. The workers have to use big machines to dig through the layers of topsoil and overburden to the layer of topsoil. When they've gotten down to the coal,and are done working on…