Physics - Energy Sources
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- Created on: 27-05-14 19:30
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- Energy Sources
- Renewable
- Wind
- No pollution
- spoil view
- Unreliable
- Waves
- Fairly unreliable
- Tides
- Estuaries
- No pollution
- Reliable
- Hydroelectric
- Big impact o environment
- Estuaries
- High initial cost
- Times of peak demand
- Pumped storage
- Big impact o environment
- Solar
- Generates electric current from sunlight
- High initial cost
- Not connected to National Grid
- Geothermal
- Volcanic areas
- Slow decay of radioactive elements. eg. uranium
- Not many places
- Steam and hot water drives turbine
- Heat buildings directly
- Cost is high compared to amount of energy
- Volcanic areas
- Food
- Biofuels
- cars
- Solids, Liquids or Gases
- Organisms living more recently
- Carbon neutral
- Forests cleared
- Wind
- Non-Renewable
- Coal
- Sulfur dioxide released
- Oil
- Oil spillages
- Acid rain
- Oil
- Damages landscape
- Sulfur dioxide released
- Oil
- Oil spillages
- Natural Gas
- Nuclear
- Fancy boilers
- Clean but WASTE
- Fuel cheap
- Cost high: power plant and decommisioning
- Major catastrophe
- Release CO2
- Coal
- Burned to drive turbines
- Renewable
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