`Energy sources disadvantages and advantages
- Created by: magnus29t
- Created on: 23-10-22 11:27
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- Energy Sources
- Wind
- Renewable energy
- Don't take up much land space
- Relatively low cost
- Unreliable
- Ugly/Eyesore
- Noise pollution
- Hydroelectric
- Renewable
- More reliable
- Produces lots of energy
- Often change paths of rivers, harm wildlife, move people out of houses
- Affected by droughts
- Fewer suitable places to build
- Tidal
- Damage ecosystems
- Doesn't produce energy continuously
- Renewable
- Doesn't produce greenhouse gases
- Predictable
- Fossil Fuels
- Non-renewable
- Inefficient
- Contributes to global warming
- Reliable
- Geothermal
- Only used where volcanic activity is close to the surface
- Lead to instability of land surrounding it
- Renewable
- Reliable
- Doesn't produce greenhouse gases
- Nuclear
- Radioactive waste disposal
- Waste has very long half-life
- No greenhouse gas emission
- Reliable
- Solar
- Only when there is sunlight
- High installation cost
- Not very efficient at converting sunlight into energy
- Renewable
- No greenhouse gases or noise pollution
- Wind
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