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    Fossil Fuels Controversy Fossil fuels are one of the leading energy source throughout the United States and the world, this will be backed up further in the paper. Fossil fuels are a natural fuel such as coal and gas. Fossil fuels are burned to fulfill our everyday needs such as house heating, running our cars, and power industry and manufacturing. Fossil fuels are important because they are burned and produce great amounts of energy. Although fossil fuels are powering many different things…

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    This is done with solar photovoltaic systems, which directly convert solar energy into electricity. The most established PV technologies are crystalline silicon based systems. They yield high output of electricity but require direct sunlight. Wind energy is converted to electricity…

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    Can Alternative Energy Ever Replace Fossil Fuels? Climate change and increasing levels of greenhouse gases have become an ever growing problem in the world today. There are many effects of climate change that have been documented from the latter part of the twentieth century until now. This significant change is due to the introduction of industrialization in society and how it has changed the equilibrium of the atmosphere by drastically increasing levels of CO2, a gas emitted from burning…

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    Over the past years, the question among many scientists and individuals is what can be a solution for climate change enough to make a difference. There have been reports where carbon dioxide levels in the air are at the highest seen for several decades. Nevertheless, the temperature has built on having an impact by being the warmest years since 2000. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced that there were more visible human impacts on climate in 1995 (Oreskes and Conway 3). The…

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    consumers and industries can keep using them indefinitely without fear of environmental damage or of running out of resources. Solar energy derives its power from photons of light which carry energy which can then be integrated into a household via photovoltaic cells; since the sun will continue to provide solar energy for millions of years, solar energy would be an excellent source of power. However, if used improperly renewable energy sources can sometimes be turned into non-renewable sources.…

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    the healthiest for the atmosphere because of less CO2 emissions, but fail to realize how it’s still emitting CO2, and that other options emit little to none of it. (Buzz, Triplepundit.com) These alternatives include, but are not limited to; wind, photovoltaic (PV effect), geothermal, biomass/waste, algae-based biofuel, hydraulic, solar heating and cooling, tidal power, solar thermal method one; using solar panels to collect heat, solar thermal method two; amplifying the sun 's heat to create…

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    Photovoltaics convert sunlight directly into electricity. Solar thermal generators use sunlight to heat water and produce electricity from steam. Hydro-electric power plant generates electricity. Tidal power seems to be the most successful development of energy…

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    Natural Gas Pricing Outlook Supply and demand, technological breakthroughs, severe weather, prices, law & regulation, demographic changes, geopolitical conflicts and disputes are some of the multitude of variables that changes year on year affecting the economy of natural gas sector. Natural gas is more of a volatile economy, even more volatile than crude oil mainly affected by the seasonality and natural gas inventories. Weather conditions as storms and hurricanes can force the supply side…

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    ENG 380T – Literature and Medicine Nicole Radova The Bionic Eye: A Collaborative Vision “Seeing is believing” – an idiom commonly uttered and heard in today’s Western world. Sight has been deemed the superior sense in our society since its association with knowledge acquisition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Classen 1997, 402), which the Scientific Revolution directly preceded. Yet available to us are four other senses, which itself is not an ultimate truth as the very concept…

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    Argument Against Fracking

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    Water contamination, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic chemicals, earthquakes, and an increased risk of cancer are just a few of the problems associated with fracking. This dangerous extraction technique involves, drilling down into the ground containing natural gas and pumping a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals to dissolve the rock and release the fuel. A process that those in favor of argue, can bring benefits such as, employment, energy independence, reduced C02 emissions and economic…

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