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    Energy management 738038 Solar energy in oil/gas industry Project Nasser Almaawali 1092382 Introduction: Renewable sources of energy are being used worldwide to overcome the pollution problems related to oil and gas industry plus the use of natural gas that cost a lot of money and produce heaps of waste that affect the environment and cause air pollution and land/marine pollution. Therefore the solution was to invest in friendly and

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    Prospects of Solar Energy Development in Pakistan Project Advisor Mr. Abdullah Irshad Sipra (Lecturer Department of Business Administration) University of Sargodha‚ Pakistan Submitted By: Sajjad Ali MBA-Exe-11-006 Syed Aown Muhammad MBA-Exe-11-009 Imtiaz Ahmad Khan MBA-Exe-11-020 Syed Fayyaz Haider MBA-Exe-11-027 Saleem Altaf MBA-Exe-11-034 In the name of ALLAH‚ The Compassionate‚ The Merciful Peace and prayer be upon His last Prophet and Messenger

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    Solar Energy System Design

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    ____________________________________________ Solar Energy System Design   The largest solar electric generating plant in the world produces a maximum of 354 megawatts (MW) of electricity and is located at Kramer Junction‚ California. This solar energy generating facility‚ shown below‚ produces electricity for the Southern California Edison power grid supplying the greater Los Angeles area. The authors ’ goal is to provide the necessary information to design such systems. The solar collectors concentrate sunlight

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    Conserving Energy to Save Money According to an article and graph published in The New York Times‚ “About 56 percent of all the energy that is produced in the United States is wasted” (Revkin). With all that energy being wasted‚ Americans cannot afford to waste much more. There are a number of things a homeowner can do around and to their household to conserve energy and save money at the same time. They can turn off unneeded electricity and try other sources‚ such as renewable energy to conserve

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    All solar lights are “wireless”. They are not “hooked up” to external sources of power. Solar lights produce no pollution and cause no harmful environmental effects. Once installed‚ energy is free Fourteen solar farms have a combined installed capacity of 388.4 megawatts and in 2011 generated 0.1 billion kilowatt-hours. (Source: Canadian Centre for Energy Information compilation‚ 2013) There are now 3‚133 megawatts of solar power installed in the U.S. That’s enough to power nearly 3 million homes

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    Proposal for Solar Database Development Austin Technology Incubator / Clean Energy Incubator Patrick Kennedy Lauren Bissey Guillermo Hernandez 8/1/2012 Proposal for Solar Database Development Purpose This document serves to illustrate next steps for the development of the Solar Database project for future associates. In addition‚ it indicates particular needs that require attention as the project moves forward. Background The purpose of the Solar Database Development

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    contribution to human energy needs is substantial — worldwide‚ solar electricity generation is a growing‚ multibillion dollar industry. But solar’s share of the total energy market remains rather small‚ well below 1 percent of total energy consumption‚ compared with roughly 85 percent from oil‚ natural gas‚ and coal. Those fossil fuels cannot remain the dominant sources of energy forever. Whatever the precise timetable for their depletion‚ oil and gas supplies will not keep up with growing energy demands. Coal

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    only that it’s available and plentiful. Electricity generated by burning fossil fuels such as coal‚ oil and natural gas‚ emits carbon dioxide‚ nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides -- gases scientists believe contribute to climate change. Solar thermal (heat) energy is a carbon-free‚ renewable alternative to the power we generate with fossil fuels like coal and gas. This isn’t a thing of the future‚ either. Between 1984 and 1991‚ the United States built nine such plants in California’s Mojave Desert

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    We all see the sun light every day‚ once you step outside on a hot day you fell its power and how destructive and life giving it is. Solar energy is the energy of the future‚ the main problem we have is making sure it is efficient and cheap. It seems that it would be simple to capture the sun’s rays and make electricity‚ but the material that “captures” the rays is very expensive due to it having to be a really pure material; if we use materials that are not as “pure” the electric current can’t go

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    Heather Smith Informative Outline Michelle Talasis Topic: Solar Energy General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform the uses of Solar Energy to my audience. Thesis: When all of our natural fossil fuels are low or gone‚ solar energy will be one of the leading sources of energy that we will need in the future. Introduction Attention Getter: Natural fossil fuels‚ such as coal used for burning‚ oil used for gasoline‚ and natural gas used to heat and warm houses

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