1. ENUMERATE & DESCRIBE NONCONVENTIONAL SOURCE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY.. 1. Wind Energy: Wind power is harnessed by setting up a windmill which is used for pumping water‚ grinding grain and generating electricity. The gross wind power potential of India is estimated to be about 20‚000 MW‚ wind power projects of 970 MW capacities were installed till March. 1998. Areas with constantly high speed preferably above 20 km per hour are well-suited for harnessing wind energy. 2. Tidal Energy: Sea water
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Biodiesel Fuel The biggest problem the United States faces today when we talk about becoming energy independent is replacing the gas we use to power our vehicles. When we talk about replacing gasoline as the fuel we use to power our vehicles‚ biomass‚ hydrogen‚ and fuel cells are the three most talked about alternatives. Biomass‚ which is organic material made from plants and animals‚ contains stored energy from the sun. Biomass in the form of bio fuels can be used to make the same products
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a fuel because it burns easily and has high calorific value. It is used to make other fuels like coal gas‚ synthetic petrol‚ methane and coke Coal is used in the manufacture of industrially useful compounds like benzene‚ phenol‚ naphthalene‚ etc. Ø Destructive Distillation of Coal: On strong heating coal in a closed tube it breaks down into different components such as coal gas‚ coal tar‚
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most people would worry about; however it soon could be a reality due to hydraulic fracturing and the lack of federal regulations. Although there are some initial benefits to fracking‚ including more access to natural gas‚ more jobs‚ less dependence on other countries for gas and lower gas prices. What are the long term effects it will have? Is it worth the risk? Is this the new reality we are faced with or is there something that can be done before it is too late? These are just some of the
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Part One - Introduction Fossil Fuels are the most important energy sources in our world today. The overwhelming majority of the huge amount of energy used in the world comes from the burning of three major fossil fuels: coal‚ petroleum‚ and natural gas. Fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy‚ and there is no other . They are formed over a very long period of time; the fossil fuels on earth today were formed from plants and animals that lived up to 300 million years ago. These fossil
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metres. C. The gas reserve found here is one of the largest in the world. (Transition: Ladies‚ lets proceed on how this phenomenon could happen.) II. While drilling in 1971‚ Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. D. When the Turkmenistan was part of USSR‚ the soviets geologist explores the natural gas. E. The scientists set up a drilling rig and camp nearby‚ and started drilling operations to assess the quantity of gas reserve available at
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and neighboring companies the cost must be equivalent or better. According to the US Department of Energy (2005)‚ the cost goal of hydrogen when benchmarked against current oil prices and future trends will be 27% - 52% cheaper than the per gallon gas cost today. The technology goal is set for the year 2015 for having a full initiative underway for commercial use. Keep in mind that the average per gallon cost will be $1.80 for consumers with hydrogen fuel. This takes into account a 43 cent tax
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The oil and gas industry is seeking to expand natural gas production across the nation‚ as new technology makes it easier to extract gas from previously inaccessible sites. Over the last decade‚ the industry has drilled thousands of new wells in the Rocky Mountain region and in the South. It is expanding operations in the eastern United States as well‚ setting its sights most recently on a 600-mile-long rock formation called the Marcellus Shale‚ which stretches from West Virginia to western New York
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Module: 121 Natural Resources Assignment Questions and Answers 1. Why do people still use Non-Renewable Natural Resources even though they have many issues. Explain with some examples. Non-Renewable Resources are the resources that cannot be reproduced/grown/generated or used scale which can sustain its consumption. Eg: Coal because it gets exhausted and long time to reform. When we use them and some other examples are LPG/nuclear/natural gas and fossil fuel are natural gas and nuclear energy
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existing fissures and extract oil or gas.” It consists of a well that is drilled miles deep that contains chemicals‚ additives‚ and sand‚ but mostly just large amounts of plain water. Once the rock is cracked from the pressure of the fluids‚ the natural gas comes back up the well‚ with millions of gallons of contaminants and chemicals. This procedure has been debated for decades‚ with proponents believing it is a safe and efficient way to retrieve natural gas‚ and opponents believing it is unsafe
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