Electricity is one of the most important energies in people’s daily life. Without electricity‚ life will be tough and boring. We could only use candles for illumination and firewood for cooking. There would be not PCs‚ no TVs‚ and even no radios. Electricity brings us a great life and it is an affordable energy. The local electricity price in Fairbanks is about 16 cent per Kilowatt-hour. However‚ the waste of electricity is a serious problem in Wickersham hall. When you walking outside the Wickersham
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to do just that‚ and is writing about it for the web Introducing "Living Plastic Free" Envirowoman is the blogger behind the site Living Plastic Free. She has completed two full years of living with the pledge to bring no new plastic into her life. Her total plastic garbage for 2008 amounts to a mere .42 kilograms‚ or just under 1 pound. While Envirowoman lives a lifestyle that may not appeal to you (she is a vegetarian who has been willing to give up her car to avoid plastic)‚ she is an
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Why Save Electricity? With the rising costs and shrinking economy more and more people are acting responsible and seacrhing for reasonable ways to save electricity. The other reason apart from these are that saving electricty will bring down your electicity bills‚ save you money and decrease pollution. Although many people have shifted to renewable sources such as solar power‚ there are other electricty saving tips too which will help you to conserve power. Electricity Saving At Home Replace
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What would be the life of women without makeup? As I am speaking on this topic today most of you will think I’ll start of with a funny mockery and make you laugh‚ I’m afraid i wont! I won’t follow the same track! For us beauty works like a drug‚ and many of us are addicted. The evidence is everywhere and ironically‚ it is not pretty. Beauty has rewards in our society. Big ones! Society tells women that their beauty is ever-loving important. Put on your make-up‚ quickly hide your true face with this
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light our lamps with electricity. Switch on the button and there is the day-like light even in the darkest night. In summer seasons electric fans‚ air conditioning plants are used to provide us with cool atmosphere. In winter‚ heating plants are used to keep the room warm. Electric bells‚ press and stove are things of every-day use. People keep refrigerators in their homes to keep their food in a fresh condition. Indeed electricity serves as a faithful domestic servant in daily life. We all knew that
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Early History of Electric Power Date Event Pictures 1800-1819 Early electric experiments were performed with DC. In 1800‚ Alessandro Volta published a description of a silver/zinc battery‚ acknowledging that he did not know how it worked. In 1807‚ Humphry Davy constructed a practical battery (the picture will be immediately familiar to anyone who works with UPS systems)‚ and demonstrated both incandescent and arc light. • Volta’s famous bi-metalic frog twitch (I did this one myself as a boy..
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conductor of electricity. If the electrons in an atom can’t be moved from their orbits at all‚ the material is an insulator. If at least some of the electrons can be moved‚ the material is a resistor. Two of the best-known conductors of electricity are silver and copper. The atomic structures of the silver and copper atom are compared in Figure 6. Note that both atoms have only one electron in the outermost orbit. This makes silver and copper excellent conductors of electricity. Silver is
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With or Without It – Technologies in Daily Life Technology in a broad sense is any knowledge or tool that somehow makes our lives easier. For some societies‚ technology is more often related to electronic equipments‚ such as the “smart-phones”‚ little portable computers that have everything in one device‚ it accesses the internet‚ has GPS‚ compass‚ games‚ video camera‚ photo‚ music and‚ if one needs it‚ can even make phone calls. On the other hand‚ in many other societies the wheel is
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LIFE WITHOUT CELL PHONES Introduction We have become a society that is totally dependant on communication devices to make our world go round. We have technology today that allows us to keep in almost constant contact with one another. We communicate through cell phones that use a network of specialized base stations called cell sites‚ but many people now are using cell and mobile phones that use a satellite signal for their connection. The phone‚ TV‚ personal computer and Internet have
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The discussion of committed crimes young adults from seventeen and younger should be given life without parole has become controversial on whether or not it should be mandatory or retained. This controversy has spread worldwide and authors are giving their opinions on the topic Do children as young as eleven deserve to be charged as adults without parole? Rhetorically‚ it all depends on the heat of the case and whether it was intentional or not. . Moreover‚ trials go off the eighth amendment to
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