Energy and Its Sources
Energy is an important element in daily life since it used for many activities like moving vehicles, promoting growth of the human body, and enabling humans to think. However, energy can be found in various forms like sound, heat, motion, and light though they are classified into kinetic and potential energy. While kinetic energy is the motion of substances, waves, objects, molecules, and atoms; potential energy is gravitational or stored energy. Some major examples of kinetic energy include thermal, radiant, electrical, motion, and sound while potential energy includes nuclear and chemical energy.
Converting Energy from One Form to Another:
Based on the Law of Conservation of Energy, no energy can be lost as energy is transformed or converted from one form to another ("Chapter 2 -- Forms of Energy," 2012). This is mainly because the total amount of energy used in the conversion process must be equivalent to the…...
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"Chapter 2 -- Forms of Energy." (2012, May 30). Department of Physics. Retrieved from The
Energy is an essential force powering society, industry and in the end our everyday lives. Generally, energy sources can be classified as non-renewable and renewable sources. Non-renewable energy sources are those that can not be replenished or made again in a short period of time. enewable energy sources on the other hand can be replenished in a short period of time (Energy sources, 2011).
There are three main sources of energy -- Nuclear Energy, Fossil Energy and Alternative Energy. Nuclear power is a form of energy which comes about from a reaction between atomic nuclei. The majority of this form of energy comes out of nuclear fission. This is the process by which atomic nuclei which are made up of neutrons and protons, collide with each other and fall apart. The energy which kept these parts together is no longer needed and comes free. This energy is then used to heat…...
It is clear that if we as a species are to survive the 21st century and beyond, we must concentrate on changing our approach to the environment by reducing our carbon "footprint" and exploring the idea of renewable energy sources that will be appropriate for a growing global population.
The Turning Point -- Transition to Renewable Energy -- the bleak reality is that the age of oil has dominated global energy needs for the past century. This has caused a number of social, cultural, and economic issues. While there may be enough oil to last fifty to one-hundred years, the ecological consequences of doing so would change the entire sphere of quality of life and health issues. It is thus necessary from an economic and ecological perspective to transition to renewable energy sources; after all, the same technological revolution and expertise that has so transformed the Internet and global communication…...
Tidal energy could be another option, which has limited access. This means that energy plans should include a combination of all alternative types of energy that can be used in a certain region.
All things considered, energy conservation is an issue that raises many concerns on global level, institutional level, and individual level. At global level, it is the world's states' responsibility to agree upon general directions that need to be taken by every state in order to contribute to reducing global warming. At institutional level, official are responsible for planning environmental strategies, and for implementing plans in this field. At individual level, it is every individual responsibility to understand the gravity and the implications of the situation and to contribute with anything in one's power to reduce energy waste.
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Mufson, Steven (2007). In Energy Conservation, California Sees Light. Progressive Policy Makes it a Model in Global Warming Fight. The…...
Weintraub, Daniel (2002). Out of the Frying Pan: The energy crisis that dominated the California Legislature's 2001 session subsided as the year came to a close, but it left behind a debilitating financial hangover that could hamper the state's economy for years to come. State Legislatures Magazine. Vol. 28, Issue 1.
Conservation and Preparedness Are Best Ways for Residents to Deal with an Electricity Shortage (2001). Public Management Magazine. Vol. 83, Issue 11.
Garages on the outskirts of the city will house cars and light rail transportation will ferry commuters to their jobs in Masdar. There will be solar thermal farms to supply about "a quarter" of the needed electricity, Loffe goes on. The city of Masdar is proposed to accommodate up to 50,000 permanent residents and jobs within the city will be provided for about 40,000 commuters. How hot will it be in the city? The energy planners assert it will be "20 degrees cooler than the surrounding desert" and moreover, the city will use 60% less water (the water will come from desalination plants that are solar powered), 75% les electricity, and 98% less landfill space (Loffe, 2009, p. 2).
How much does it cost for a person / family to go solar, and do their own personal energy planning on their rooftop? An article in Money magazine (Hely, 2011, p.…...
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Works Cited
Andrews, Clinton J. (2008). Energy Conversion Goes Local. Journal of the American Planning
Association, 74(2), 231-253.
Hely, Susan. (2011). Let the SUN Shine in! Money. Issue 132, 50-52.
Loffe, Julia. (2009). A Green City Blooms in the Desert. Fortune International. 159(7), 40-44.
Energy Sources
Energy is a mysterious force that appears to propel everyone and everything within the known constructs of the universe. All things both require and expend energy in all types of forms and systems. The purpose of this paper is to examine my own personal energy use to determine the extent, sources and destinations of this practice. This essay will include the different forms of energy I consume and expend and how these requirements change over the course of a year. This examination is important because it demonstrates, through individual experimentation, the vast influence that energy has on our way of life in today's complicated and information-rich society.
The most obvious form of energy that I currently rely on is the energy that is provided by the sun. The sun as a source of energy is often overlooked and taken for granted. However, this free and ever-present source of energy fuels…...
3%, which is significantly less than what is being demanded.
Solar energy that causes less pollution than coal-based energy is not used as often as we should because it cannot be created with as much ease as the latter source. In order to translate solar power into electricity, greater power generation prowess is to be utilized. This is what has led to decreased use of renewable sources. Everywhere we see, the energy that we are consuming is coming from sources other than sun and wind. Interestingly while rapidly vanishing reservoirs of energy are easier to produce, they cannot be replenished with ease and the exact opposite is true for renewable sources.
Our government doesn't have a proper energy policy while it has many plans to conserve energy, which have been more or less ineffective. The failure is grounded in its cursory interest in the subject. The government needs to understand that apart…...
Throughout my research I have learned a great deal about my personal energy consumption patterns as well as the tactics of some of my primary energy providers. Beginning with the latter area of energy education, I was somewhat surprised to learn of the way in which my electricity is actually generated. Upon conducting extensive industrial research and by examining the websites of several of the nation's top electricity suppliers, I have found that nuclear fission is a regular part of this process. Knowing the history of disasters like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, I definitely did not expect nuclear production tactics to continue to occur on such a routine basis. Nevertheless, even with popularity of this kind of electricity production technique, my local provider actually uses a complex system of electromechanical generators that are powered by heat…...
Energy and orld Economy
Energy being a corner stone of the current industrial economy, it does offer an indispensable component for approximately the entire human activities. It offers services for food preparation as well as lighting, physical condition, storage, edification, granite mining, and industrial production in addition to transportation. Current energy services are with no doubt influential train of money-making as well as social growth, moreover no nation has contained the growth greatly further than a subsistence economy minus enhancing even the smallest amount of energy access services for an extensive segment of its people. All the way through the world, the energy capital obtainable to them as well as their capability to pay principally determines the people's way of life. On the other hand, it is significant to note that people only need energy services and not fuel or electricity.
In entire history, dissimilar sources of energy have in a way…...
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Energy Policy and the Global Economy
ithout question, climate change is having a profound impact on the global economy. Evidence is mounting within increasing intensity to suggest that the patterns of climate and weather are shifting and that these shifts are likely the consequence of manmade hazards. In no small part, the negative impact of global industrialization is reaping considerable environmental consequences and, by no small irony, these same consequences will have a direct impact on global industries. Most specifically, the rate of human energy consumption -- with all its attendant financial costs -- has increased exponentially in recent years. And in light of the heating of our atmosphere, this consumption threatens only to increase with time. According to Chinn (2013), "occurrences of summer temperatures more than 3 standard deviations above the mean, which were extremely rare before 1980, occurred an order of magnitude more frequently in the 2000s and covered…...
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Chinn, M. (2013). Some Economic Implications of Global Climate Change. Econbrowser.
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Energy Drawbacks
Because every energy-producing source has some drawbacks and negative issues, it is important for society to choose wisely when it comes to developing electrical generating sources. This paper reviews those issues.
ind Energy: there are many advantages to wind energy, including: a) it is non-polluting (no fossil fuels are burned in the process); b) less space is used than by building a big power station (and windmills can be built in agriculture areas because crops can be grown around the base of a windmill); and c) wind energy can bring electrical power to remote areas (Clean Energy Ideas).
ind Energy: the downside of wind power: a) wind is not always reliable and consistent; b) birds and bats fly into the turbines and are killed; c) there is noise associated with the turbines; and d) rural residents don't like big wind turbines in their previously agrarian environment (Clean Energy Ideas).
Geothermal: the advantages…...
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. Clean Energy Ideas. (2009). Geothermal Power / Advantages & Disadvantages of Wind
It would be critical in the power dynamic of the global community to demonstrate that the U.S. would not panic in the face of bullying pressure by OPEC. A realist might also suggest further exploiting sources of oil within the United States' own borders, to make it less dependent upon the whims of other nations and more self-sufficient.
An idealist, however, would instead suggest that the U.S. had a moral obligation to help Israel, and to find other renewable sources of energy to reduce the power of these immoral, terrorist-supporting nations in the world community. To do so, an idealist would suggest the U.S. make investments in wind energy, solar power, and even nuclear power. An idealist would also encourage the average United States consumer to conserve energy through price controls, limits on car size, fuel efficiency requirements, and public relations efforts that stressed it was every American's patriotic duty…...
At the same time, economic growth and prosperity is definitely linked to energy consumption. Following the path of greatest energy efficiency would have us still living in the Middle Ages, and though certain nations might not be as exploited as they are today through our more efficient trade mechanisms (that burn less efficient fuels), many people in the developed world would be entirely unwilling to make this trade (Jones 1997).
The basic problem, of course, is that we can't see into the future and are often unwilling to honestly look at the present. Had mankind looked at the amount of smog produced by early factories -- which coated areas of major cities in soot -- and decided that a re-evaluation was in order, things like wind and solar power might have been developed sooner. But there will always be a need for more energy; whenever energy is available, someone will use…...
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Jones, Walter. The Logic of International Relations. Longman: 1997.
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Energy Economics
Cost and benefit analysis is an analytical process, which is used to measure that whether the benefits or advantages associated with an activity is greater than its costs or not. It is one of the commonly used and formal tools for the assessment of efficiency. Efficiency assessment can be defined as a process in which scarce resources are examined critically so that the ways in which they can be used most efficiently can be determined. Efficiency assessment basically provides us with ways through which maximum benefits can be acquired from scarce resources. The technique of cost and benefit analysis is based on welfare economics. ("Cost-benefit analysis" 2009)[footnoteRef:2] [2: Cost-benefit analysis, (russels: European Commission, 2009)http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/knowledge/pdf/cost_benefit_analysis.pdf (accessed May 25, 2013), 4.]
Advantages of Cost and enefit Analysis
Cost and benefit analysis benefits an organization in many ways. It reduces the operating costs and enhances efficiency. The major benefits of cost and benefit analysis…...
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Energy Economics and Negative Externality
Externalities having Negative Costs to Society
Externalities of Energy
Efficient Tax
Market-based Environmental Policy
Pollution Taxes
Externalities are Market Failure or Failure of Markets
It can be considered that the economists believe markets are unambiguously resulting in efficient results. It is with the total surplus maximized when the markets operate without interference from the other institutions. If it were the case, then there would be no efficient role for the non-market institutions in society along with their justification having concerns about the distribution of surplus. It specifically concerns about the equity and fairness because these relate to the allocation of market of scarce resources (Menanteau, Finon and Lamy 2003, Sutherland 1991). However, such issues play specific role in the justification of non-market institutions that are being motivated by efficiency rather than equity concerns. These conditions are known as externalities and they emerge with the decisions of certain parties in the market having…...
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How to begin a thesis on Wall House by Anupama Kundoo depends on how you are approaching the topic. Are you approaching Wall House as a work of architecture, art, human behavior, or a sustainability project? While the three areas combine and are not possible to completely separate, knowing your primary focus will help you determine how to start your thesis. It will also help you understand your audience. How familiar do you expect your readers to be with Wall House, with how it functions, or with Anupama Kundoo as an architect?
To begin writing an essay about upper respiratory tract infections, you want to think about the approach you want to take. Do you want to describe upper respiratory tract infections, discuss causes of these infections, focus on symptoms, or look at different treatment methods? Perhaps you want to do a combination of those things and write a comprehensive essay on the topic. Next, you want to consider your audience. Are you writing a generic essay for a lower-level course in a non-scientific discipline or is your essay for an audience that is....
Much has been made of the possible relationship between obesity and gut bacteria. Rather than the simplistic view of obesity that once posited that obesity was always simply a matter of consuming too many calories or being too sedentary, modern research has revealed that a number of factors contribute to obesity. This has helped lead to epidemic levels of obesity, which has a domino effect on other health issues. Determining which factors help influence obesity is one of the keys to fighting this epidemic. Gut bacteria is one of these factors.
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