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    Costco Wholesale Corporation began in 1983 in Seattle, Washington. It is the second largest retailer store in the nation and serves too many communities. Employing over 135,000 full and part time employees in the United States alone, and around 200,000 employees worldwide. A corporation that is efficient in operations, has unmatched savings and is accessible through membership has a vision to give the customer a low efficient discount price and still continue to financially make a profit. The…

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    Thermal energy strorage Thermal Energy Storage is the temporary storage of high or low temperature energy for later use, bridging the gap between requirement and energy use. The storage cycle might be daily, weekly or seasonal depending on the system design requirements, and whilst the output will always be thermal, the input may be thermal or electrical. Principle 1) Sensible Heat Storage Heating a liquid or solid, without changing the phase: This method is called sensible heat storage.…

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    that come from human sources. These crafts emit gases and particles high in the atmosphere by doing so; they damage the ozone layer. Aircraft engines produce emissions that are similar to other emissions produced by fossil fuel combustion. When fuel is burned, the carbon in the fuel is released and bonds with oxygen in the air to form carbon dioxide. Scientific studies have shown that high-altitude emissions are harmful to the climate and the Earth. They are harmful to climate because they…

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    well and it has caused many earthquakes in the past and even ones that surpassed 3.0 on the Richter scale. These processes also have had other failures such as barge and dam failure and flooding causing destruction to the land and contamination on top of that. Fracking also has made many homeowners’ water supplies and wells became. contaminated and unsafe to drink because of the fracking processes. People have found many different chemicals in their water from fracking. They have found over…

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    different ways to harness this energy and use it to do work. In order to get energy we have to take earths recourses and use them to harness it. These resources, are known as renewable and non-renewable energy. Non-renewable energy sources are fossil fuels: coal, petroleum, and natural gas. They formed many years ago back when the earth was just a swamp land covered in moss and wet vegetation. Back when the…

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    of fossil fuels that you use. This could be done by buying a car that runs on electricity, hydrogen, or a hybrid of electricity and gas, or by taking the bus. These methods work, but they aren 't the most effective. electric and hybrid cars need the electricity from somewhere, and it is produced by mostly burning fossil fuels to turn a turbine which makes the electricity, so it still isn 't clean. Hydrogen cells are costly, complicated, and most of our hydrogen comes from fossil fuels anyway.…

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    It is the uncommonly fast increment in the Earth's average surface temperature over the past time primarily because of the greenhouse gases released as individuals burn fossil fuels. Global warming is because of the enhancing greenhouse gases emission and build-up in the Earth's environment. The gasses that have an impact on the atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, dinitrogen-oxide, and methane. Very nearly 30 percent of…

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    oriented cells, outfitting energy from novel sources like microscopic organisms and green growth, and other imaginative ranges could give critical achievements (Union of Concerned Scientists 1). The unification of energy proficiency with a solid carbon top would energize high contaminating coal and oil be released from plants to diminish their discharges or offer an approach to low-carbon types of an era, conveying huge cuts in contamination. Energy effectiveness and protection give such a…

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    The United States of America (USA) is one of the top carbon emitting countries. In 2011, the Union of Concerned Scientist reported that USA released approximately 5490.63 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. In addition, the USA has one of the highest per capita for carbon emission, which is around 17.62 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that carbon dioxide emissions are causing the gradual heating and change of the Earth’s climate since…

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    produced in several different ways, it can be burned, fermented, digested by bacteria to produce methane gas for powering turbines or gasified, which is then burned. Biomass is mostly used in the United States, and has not proved to be better than fossil fuels, in terms of long term pollution reduction. An advantage of biomass is mostly to agriculture industry, because they are able to use residual plant materials for…

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