Access to Energy
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 16-03-15 09:13
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- Access to Energy
- The UK and energy
- Energy is delivered through gas pipes and electricity
- E.ON plans to build two new coal-powered stations to replace the one in Kent
- This is controversial as they are replacing coal with more coal, pollution with even more pollution
- Nuclear power and public perceptions
- Its safety: due to thousands of years of leakage and radioactive waste
- All but one nuclear power stations are due to close by 2023
- Building nuclearnew power plants will undermine the development of more-efficient renewable energy technology by steering investment away from away from it
- Britian has become more reliant on oil and gas from Russia, the insecurity makes Britain paranoid
- Physical factors
- The shallow reserves of fossil fuels have been exhausted, we've hit the peak and will either have to dig deeper or find an alternative
- Due to the location, Britain has great potential for tidal and wave power
- Energy poverty
- 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity
- 2.4 billion people rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating - but has killed 2.5 million women and children through lung dieases
- 96% of Kenyans have no access to grid electricity, they are encouraging bottom-up hydro-electric schemes where one can benefit 1000
- Technology and cost
- Although the cost if installing wind turbines has risen, wind power is still viable because other energy's like oil prices still remain high
- China has become a low-producer of PV cells, which generates electricity from sunlight, they have potential for poorer countries will increase
- In developing countries, renewable energy can provide power more cheaply and quickly than extending transmission lines and constructing new power plants
- Unequal shares
- Energy is being consumed unqually around the world
- Chiuna consume the most coal and are the worlds biggest polluters
- US consume the most natural gas
- The UK and energy
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