energy generation
- Created by: william_james
- Created on: 16-12-20 11:27
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- Energy Generation
- Bioenergies
- waste products, plants and veg, compost
- Renewable
- powers diesel engines like cars
- Advantages:- Does not give off harmful chemicals in its production. Disadvantages:Large area s of land are needed to grow the crops
- Fossil Fuels
- used industrially as well as in vehicle engines
- coal,oil and gas
- used for large scale energy generation
- reliable but is finite
- large pollutant contributing to environmental problems
- global warming
- impacts landscape
- mining
- tidal
- Turbines generate electricity from the movement of tidal water.
- No emissions. Powerful
- renewable
- expensive, disrupts wildlife
- wind
- Wind turbines use propellers to spin shaft which drive generators.
- Can be used in remote areas.No emissions.
- expensive, spoils landscape, unreliable
- solar
- Solar thermal power plants use the sun's rays to heat a fluid that is circulated through pipes, transferring heat to water and producing steam
- .Steam is then converted into mechanical energy in a turbine, which is used to spin a generator.
- only functions when light
- Solar thermal power plants use the sun's rays to heat a fluid that is circulated through pipes, transferring heat to water and producing steam
- hydro electric
- A dam traps water that flows through tunnels and turns turbines to produce electricity.
- Large amount of power at a low cost.Can have secondary purposes, such as a water reserve
- - Expensive to set up.- Construction may damage the environment.- land has to be used to create the dam.
- Bioenergies
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