Renewable Solar Power
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Renewable Solar Power
Solar power is used not only for businesses but also for private homes as well instead of traditional energy resources. The main benefit of using it is that it is renewable – solar power can not run out and as long as there is sunlight, power can be generated.
What do you need to benefit from renewable solar power? In fact the equipment needed is neither extraordinary nor overly expensive. All you need to have to start using solar power as an alternative energy source are solar panels. Moreover solar panels are pretty easily made in case you want to do it yourself. The materials required are not very expensive and the actual making of them does not require any great skills.
Once you have the solar panels installed you should decide what for you will use the renewable solar power. It can be used for generating electricity or heating your home or just for heating water. Many people prefer using solar panels for hot water only, others use it for home heating as well, whilst others have panels installed to generate electricity. However you will have to get a lot of solar panels installed if you want to fully replace your current electricity source. In most cases you will be able to generate enough power for your garden lighting or other small electricity consumables.
No matter how much power your home needs, you can replace it with renewable solar power, you will definitely cut your utilities bills, especially during winter when you have to pay hundreds of dollars just for heating.
Not only is renewable solar power good for your pocket, it is also very beneficial for the global ecology. Solar power is totally pollution free – to generate it you don’t need to use any fuels and by generating it you don’t pollute the air, water or soil in any way. It is actually better than using wind power because solar power generators do not produce any noise. The only real disadvantage is that you can not generate power at night or if the weather is bad / overly cloudy in which case power generation is greatly reduced.
Abhinav Sidana
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Is solar,nuclear or wind power renwable or non renewable resources. explain?
1. Is solar power a renewable or a non renewable resource?
2. Is nuclear power a renewable or a non renewable resource?
3. Is wind power a renewable or non renewable resource?
please explain, thanks i really need help!!!
Solar=renewable. Look outside, there’s TONS of sunlight every day. The earth utilizes only about 8% (I think. Maybe it’s less.) of the sun’s light shown on the earth. Most of it actually is reflected back towards the sun because of the ozone layer. Most of it falls on water or man made structures which aren’t photosynthetic or solar powered.
Nuclear power=Non renewable, but it provides so much energy from so little material, that’s hardly an issue. The issue is the meltdown factors. Nuclear power works by boiling water. There are two pipes, one with lots of pressurized water that passes by the reactors where nuclear fission is taking place. That pipe passes by another pipe of fresh cool water that often comes from a spring source. The first pipe boils the water in the second pipe which is the fresh water which turns into steam which turns turbines and creates energy. If there is a crack in the pressurized water which cools the reactors, the operators can’t just shut down the plant because if they turn off the reactors, they still keep producing LOTS of heat because they can’t stop fission instantaneously. If the water leaks out and there’s a full meltdown, the radioactive material will melt everything and continue going down and down into the earth killing everything in it’s path and making everything around the plant uninhabitable for a VERY long time until it finally stops reacting and cools down. Nuclear fission is a pretty stable process, but the safety regulations need to be figured out a bit more in detail. Another issue is what to do with the radioactive material after it is used up, that is why nuclear fission is nonrenewable.
Wind power is renewable. The turbines are turned by wind which is a renewable resource because wind is created by pressure being pushed on the atmosphere.
References :
AP bio, parents, and I actually learned about nuclear power from my history teacher.