The Benefits Of Renewable Energy

Creating a dam can also mean flooding hundreds of square miles of valley and scenic areas forcing animals and plants to either die or move. Plant decay caused downstream can also produce as many greenhouse gases as some other ways of generating electricity though not all. Even with their simple design dams have a very high initial cost but also create many jobs in the process. There are consequences with almost every way to generate power but hydroelectricity problems can mostly be balanced or even shadowed by the good they create just as other sources such as nuclear power have.

As a evergrowing country, we need reliable energy resources. We need sources that wouldn’t require a large plant, cause environmental effects, be cheap enough to afford, would be something that is easily replenished, and something that would be safe to use. For example, burning coal (a nonrenewable source) is not good for the environment. We are suffering consequences such as more holes in the Ozone layer from using more than needed fossil fuels. Pollution is also a highly equal problem we are facing.

Audience Motivation: We all live on the same planet and should be educated on what is really going on here.

Generating and supplying more green energy in the US can have a big impact in the environment and in our economy. With more green energy resources a big amount disasters that affect our environment can be reduced. Such disasters include oil spills, nuclear leaks and the emission of harmful pollutants. Electric power plants are one of the biggest contributors to pollution in the country due to the amount of carbon and sulfur dioxides that are released into the air. Carbon dioxide emitted into the air is confirmed to contribute to global warming and sulfur dioxide causes acid rain, which can kill plants and animals in lakes and rivers. In comparison, green energy is generated in much more natural and harmless methods that don’t affect our environment. Renewable energy wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and biomass provides substantial benefits for our climate, and our health.

While Hydroelectric dams have many benefits/[a specific benefit]. There are many environmental drawbacks to hydro electricity. Hydroelectric dams are massive constructions of concrete cutting across parts of the wilderness. The dam itself completely intersects a river. Hydroelectric dams treats water like an inorganic resource, much like Liquid oxygen? and Nitrogen? in a rocket. However the water is also a crucial part of the ecosystem for Flora and Fauna both in and around it. Its hard to use water as a storage for gravitational potential energy as well as an ecosystem, and dams often drastically affect aquatic life

Have you ever wondered what it would be like with no fossil fuels and how they affect the Earth? Or ever wondered about alternative energy sources? According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, about 67 percent of the energy the United States uses is from fossil fuels and about 19 percent is from nuclear energy.That is about 86 percent of Americans source of energy. This means more than three-fourths of the energy Americans produce and use is coming from a nonrenewable energy source. That leaves about 13 percent of the energy consumed is from a renewable resource. Thirteen percent is not even a fourth of the energy produced. Hydropower is the biggest renewable source of energy that the United States makes. Hydropower produces seven

There may be many good things about hydroelectricity but there's also some bad things about this alternative energy source. There is a high initial investment on most hydroelectric sources, with larger dams costing over 20 billion dollars. One other disadvantage is the building of the dam can change the ecosystem in the water because the dam can change the temperature the level of water and can affect the water flow causing fish and other animals to be disturbed. One huge problem in the development and growth of this alternative energy source is that we are running out of areas that can sustain a dam, so eventually we would be limited to the places we create them and could stop the development of hydroelectric

Summary: In this paper, I will introduce the Renewable Portfolio Standard and tell the audience what the Renewable Portfolio Standard is. And then I will list many different Renewable Portfolio Standard in many different countries and in different states in the U.S. Then I will analysis the advantages and disadvantages of this renewable energy policy. Finally I will make my own recommendations and suggestions.

In our environment, there are many concerns on how to make the world a better place to live. One of the biggest issues is our energy and power resources. Green energy is renewable energy that is environmental friendly, and forms of green energy include geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind energy. Nonrenewable resources, as the name implies, are resources for which there is a limited supply, and forms of nonrenewable resources include fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Much of our world is using fossil fuels, but in the process of achieving everyday needs, we are destroying our environment. In my opinion, people should cut down on the usage of fossil fuels and depend more on green energy. This will stop thousands of harmful pollutants and toxics from entering our atmosphere in the form of CO2.

Nowadays, electricity plays a huge role in many lives. We may not be able to touch electricity, but it touches our lives every day. From the time waking up in the morning until going to the bed at night, the daily life is dependent on electricity. Electricity has been traveling to homes, schools, businesses, industries. publics, and devices that improve on our livings. According to a study, there are only 1.3 million out of 5.4 billion people do not have electricity in this word. By every human measure, the world needs more electricity every day. There are so many sources to produce electricity, which can divide by non-renewable sources and renewable resources. Examples of nonrenewable energy resource are fossil fuel and nuclear energy and renewable energy resources are solar, wind, and biomass energy.  However, nuclear energy has a low impact on the Earth and is the most efficient, reliable, pure, and cheap compared to any energy resources.

The primary source of energy in the United States is fossil fuels – for heating, power, and electricity generation – but we have a limited supply [1]. In addition to limited quantity, the burning of fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming as well as pollutants that cause asthma, acid rain, smog, and more [1]. Alternate sources of energy generation have been studied – among them hydro, tidal, wind, biomass, geothermal, and of course solar energy – to reduce dependency on fossil fuels, to have “clean” energy sources, and because they are all unlimited resources [1].

The term, “non-renewable energy,” is at its most basic form, means that the sources of energy will eventually one day run out and not replenish itself. Non-renewable energy comes in many forms. For example: coal, crude oil and natural gas. These sources are categorized as fossil fuels, meaning that they were formed in the past due to natural processes from dead organisms. Non-renewable energy has been proven to be very beneficial to the US, however, many people argue the negatives are not worth the benefits.

The Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) aimed to influence residents to convert most of the state’s energy production into renewable energy. Based on the Califonia Energy Commision, in 2006, the standard requires 20 percent of electricity retail sales to be powered by renewable energy. The standard is then further improved to a targeted percentile of 33% in 2020 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and moving forward to the current standard which is at 51% by 2030 by Governor Edmund G. Brown. As of June 2017, California is ahead of schedule and the state is currently 29% fully powered by clean energy. These data are proven by the California Energy Commission, there are no doubt that these numbers are true, but does it really contribute to the

Non-Renewable energy is the energy which is taken from the sources that are available on the earth in limited quantity and will vanish fifty-sixty years from now. Non-renewable sources aren’t friendly to the environment and can have serious impacts on people’s health. They’re called non-renewable because they can’t be generated again within a small amount of time. Non-renewable sources are existent in the form of fossil fuels, natural gas, oil and coal. Now, just like Renewable sources do, Non-Renewable sources also include pros and cons. Pros, Non-renewable sources are low in price and pose no difficulty to utilize. You can with ease fill up the tank of a car and power a motor vehicle. People can use short quantity of nuclear energy to