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    switch to solar energy, wind power, or hydroelectric energy. There are disadvantages to switching entirely over to alternative energy such as harm to wildlife, both in the air and on the ground. Also, some health issues have been linked to using alternative energy. At this point, America should not make plans to switch entirely over to alternative energy. One may believe that solar energy would be a great power source, but it is not efficient enough to change from a conventional power plant.…

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    plans to combat its effects. Hillary’s plan mainly involves solar power plants providing energy, wanting to build 500 million panels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions over many years. Bernie on the other hand wants to use several sources of clean energy like wind power, improve our electrical infrastructure, and to create a fossil fuel free country. Both candidates’ energy plans are ambitious and not without issues, the lack of a nuclear power option is troubling, but they are both right in…

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    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…

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    to prepare his return to the site by recharging the solar cells on the land rover. Watney then decides to test out the battery of the vehicle the next day. The results turned out to be a failure, Watney found out that he had a thermodynamics problem with keeping the heat inside of his rover. What Watney was planning to do with this vehicle was to drive it to the Ares 4 landing site. Watney’s design proposal was to calculate the amount of power he needed for the rover to get to the Ares 4 landing…

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    most common are wind and solar. This essay will focus on wind and solar. In what ways are alternative, renewable resources a better option than fossil fuels? In previous years global warming and greenhouse gases were not number one on the priority list. It is only recently, with pollution…

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    that could be government supporting christianity and their beliefs about suicides. I rank myself as a liberal on this topic, because most democrats think we should have the euthanasia procedure. Another issue we should talk about more is wind power/ alternative energy producers. We had a big convention in France with other countries about pollution and what we could do to cut back in causing smog and other terrible pollution things. Because all we are doing is shortening our lives on earth,…

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    There are 3 different types of energy used by the United States, there is solar, nuclear and wind. These types of energy are different from one another, with their own pros and cons.Nuclear power makes over 20 percent of the United States energy producer. Nuclear energy is when clean energy resource. Nuclear energy originates from the splitting of uranium atoms a process called fission. This generates heat to produce steam, which is used by a turbine generator to generate electricity. Some of…

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    s nuclear power worth the risk? Are the positive aspects of nuclear power worth the possible negative outcomes? To use nuclear power, Uranium atoms must split, which is called fission. The heat produced from fission is what makes the water turn into steam. The steam is what makes the turbines turn and the turbines are used to generate electricity. Do the positive effects of using nuclear power out weight the possibility of building nuclear weapons? I think with government regulations and…

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    For strength part, because of location of Nevada, it has good renewable energy, such as geothermal energy, solar energy, and wind energy, and excellent physical recourses, like . There are lots of entertainment and recreation, such as all kind of luxury hotel, shopping mall, restaurant, and the most famous casino. Over the 5 years ending in 2015, the Nevada economy grew by 6.44% at a compound annual growth rate of 1.26% per year. For weakness part. Because of the geographic location and…

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    should invest more money expanding oil and gas. While others contend developing wind and solar energy would be the smartest way to go. Mark Lewis argues that oil prices could stay so low that is no longer economic to bring in high cost new oil fields. But even if the oil price does rise, it will not be able to compete with a renewable such as solar and wind. 1. Recent studies like these shed new light on wind and solar energy, which previous studies had not addressed. Wind energy is one of the…

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