I'm doing a debate on renewable energy ….?
… and am a bit stuck. My group has been assigned to find the advantages of solar energy depending on the wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear weapons. Only I can not find anything! If you could perhaps offer some advantage to yourself or give me a website, it would be great! =) Please help me!
This depends largely on the location and funding of resources is the best. In the U.S., for example, no place to put large numbers of wind farms: Along the coastal regions and near the Great Lakes, among other places. It's wonderful for Americans because they can afford the initial investment in building wind power systems and have many experts in the country who are able to make necessary repairs to the windmills. In third world countries clean energy however, is not subsidized by the government and the towns and villages are too poor to acquire even small windmills. Think about it, in order to establish and implement a windmill turbine that is needed is very difficult and expensive to transport, a battery bank to the energy story is probably the most expensive part of the whole system from wind does not blow fast enough to run the generator at 100% time, and as I mentioned a generator to produce mechanical energy that can be converted into electrical energy. Besides poor countries can not afford the luxury of hiring people to work on the windmills if they are broken and people like Engineers Without Borders local trains do not understand that once a local in a poor village has such technical capabilities of the person usually left to get a job where he or she can make more money with the skills and send money home. In these countries, stronger (simple, reliable, and insurance) and the access method for power generation is desirable. Another thing about wind power is only guaranteed for 20 years and then have to be replaced. I lived in a town called Hull in MS that has 12% of its energy from the city (in 2005) of wind energy and therefore saves the city money, although the wind was not always fast enough to efficiently run the generator to produce electricity. If you are interested to visit the page of the Cape Wind Project. Another interesting field of research here is not from the turbines at all but one piece large amount of material to vibrate in the wind and produce energy without the worry of death of birds or flying vehicles hit. Many experts believe that hydrogen for be the source of energy than the energy revolution, but nevertheless, there is still no effective method of producing hydrogen. The idea is fantastic: the Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and if humanity can use its power would have as much energy as we need and we can get from the sea without pollute the environment. The hydrogen generation but now usually comes from the electrolysis (H2O -> (1 / 2) O2 + H2) and steam reforming, that creates greenhouse gases. So much for clean energy. Moreover, hydrogen is also very difficult to store and fuel. After considering all these remember facts you need pure water to run fuel cells. Hydrogen is renewable, but certainly the issue here is whether or not desirable. Do not think I'm down for the classification of the potential utility of hydrogen. I just said a lot of research and development is needed to make it more competitive with other power generation sources. Nuclear is great until you realize that in the long run is very expensive (many argue that these plants do not pay for themselves) and there no place to store the waste that will satisfy everyone. In 1995, 32,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is produced. In 2015, the number is projected at 75,000 metric tons. But where all the waste go? Part of it was left to be buried in a mountain in Nevada, but the State did not want him which had to be removed from elsewhere. You can shoot into space but you know how much pollution they produce out of our atmosphere? The solar panels are the most costly production of energy used today (about $ 3000 per kilowatt for the panel). These solar cells are also difficult to produce and easily stolen away especially in developing countries. People are working in flexible cells that could generate the same electricity for a fraction of the cost (these are not produced with silicon). Passive Solar however, is probably the easiest method of producing renewable energy. The hot water pump for use directly or through the walls and floors of a building for heating purposes is surprisingly effective. Other obvious ways to use passive solar energy are the placement of the windows in the building and the colors and materials that can induce or inhibit the absorption of energy sun. Another fact that you may want to consider is how many watts does each type of energy in general and whether or not produce that kind of energy is good for business, household, village, town, or rural uses. I hope this helps;)
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