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paper questions. is it good?

Count how many electronic devices you own. Now count how many of those you use on a daily bases. Now think about where all of the power to run those items comes from. As simple as it is, many Americans never think about where the power to run their personal gadgets, there only worry is about how big the bill is going to be at the end of the month. The truth is, Americans are the ones who need to think about energy consumption the most, because America uses far more energy per capita than any other nation in the world. This is because we have more money to burn, and we are completely energy dependent. If we want out world to continue to thrive, we as Americans are going to have to start using less energy as a whole and building more ways to reduce dependencies on oil and other unrenewable, dirty resources. The purpose of this paper is to inform the public about the salvations and pitfalls of different sources of renewable energy and the dangerous we will face if we don’t switch to it.
•Wind
Wind is great renewable resource; in this section of my paper I will outline the pros and cons of wind energy.
Wind is energy is completely clean, inexpensive to build, and produces a reasonable power output. However, wind energy can only work efficiently in areas where there is a more or less constant wind. Wind energy works the best in places like California where there is mountain ranges where valleys get constant wind blowing through them. Wind energy does work in Iowa though, mostly you will see wind farms on hills, but if you’ve ever seen an old farm it is most likely that they had wind energy! Wind energy is very old; it in the 18th century to pump water.

•Solar
Solar energy is one of my favorite sources of energy. It can be mounted on a roof to create clean power all through the day. Solar energy has several dehabilitating pitfalls though. Solar energy creates enough power to easily run a home, but it creates most of the energy when the occupants aren’t actually home. So a solar panel will run your appliances such as your fridge for free, but in the evening when you get home, turn on all the lights, and the sun is down, solar panels aren’t going to do you any good. So in order to combat this problem, solar panels would have to have batteries, this is completely possible, but unfortunately the batteries would have to be quite big, and very costly to replace once they stopped holding a charge. Solar energy would be great for the Midwest and other less populated areas but in order for solar energy to power places like New York City, you’re going to have to convince Montana to give up half their land for sole solar panel use for the “greater good”.
Are you a person who is interested in green energy and using Solar Energy Panels or creating your own Home Wind Power, then you are just like myself. I have had a keen interest in green energy every since I studied Architecture many many years ago. At that time I learned that is was possible to build homes that are completely self sufficient which was so compelling to me I had to know more.
•Water Power and hydrogen power.

Water power is another very old renewable resource; it was use thousands of years ago to turn big wheels that were dipped in rivers to grind things up. Water power today is more tuned towards dams; dams make good energy, but they harm the environment more than any other renewable resource. Building dams causes the area in front of the dam to flood, resulting in loss of habitat for many an animal. Hydrogen power would be absolutely awesome if we had a source of pure hydrogen closer than the sun to harvest from. The only practical use for hydrogen energy is to use excess energy from solar panels to transform water into hydrogen; this may be a substitute for batteries for solar panels.

•Nuclear energy

In my mind this is the energy that has the potential to save humanity. Nuclear energy puts out tremendous amounts of power and has only a little waste. The main problem with nuclear energy is idiots who are terrified of being saved by it because it might “blow up”. Other problems include: the storage of the small amount of byproduct, eventually we will run out of Uranium (not a pressing problem), and nuclear plants take a long time to build even if they were to pushed through to build immediately, which never happens. German is currently 80% dependent on Nuclear energy and I think we need to follow their lead.
In conclusion, we as people have a responsibility to protect the world and to protect ourselves. In order to accomplish this we need to move forward and invest heavily in completely renewable resources, and stop popping out kids. As previously stated, I believe nuclear power will be our salvation, but we need to invest in all renewable resources; wind energy for California, solar for the Midwest, hydro for places with large rivers, and nuclear for the New Yorkers.

Generally speaking, when writing a formal essay or research paper, you want to avoid phrases like "I think," and "In my opinion." State your facts as facts and leave out anything that isn’t a fact. Unless you’ve been specifically instructed to share your personal opinion about your topic, then you shouldn’t express it in a paper.

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Multimeter not working, HELP!?

Hi! Not to long ago I began working on a science project to see if the temperature outside affects the electricity (voltage) generated by a solar cell. Its all been going well, until I took a break to test out some electronics for an RC plane, using a homemade chord with radioshack banana plugs. Now when I went back to the solar panel project, I get no reading. I am 99.9% positive that the multimeter is the culprit, and but im not sure why!
Are you a person who is interested in green energy and using Solar Energy Panels or creating your own Home Wind Power, then you are just like myself. I have had a keen interest in green energy every since I studied Architecture many many years ago. At that time I learned that is was possible to build homes that are completely self sufficient which was so compelling to me I had to know more.

Thanks!

It is probably the fuses in the multimeter. There should be two.

If you have a second multimeter you can use, check the continuity of the fuses after taking them out. Otherwise, just replace them with new ones.

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Why doesn’t people care about the environment…?

*********YOU WILL FIND THIS INTERESTING, I CAN ASSURE YOU:

It’s so irritating, and it just drives me so insane that people don’t care about what is happening. I mean, we’re using up SO much coal and SO much oil, that at the end of 2010, we’ll probably won’t have anymore…
There are so many caring people out in the world, but don’t get enough confidence to go up and talk about the life. I mean, people who believe God in different ways (religious perspectives), it just doesn’t make sense. We were given this world specially for us in our solar system to treat it with respect, and not misuse the good things for bad. Like knives is for cooking, not for killing. I want to save this world, but people think "Well I’m not going to be alive when it ends, so I can’t be bothered." We have kids who will have kids, and so on, so basically it will be our family that’s been destroyed…
I just want the world to know that sometimes we need to care for our world. I mean, now, if you think about it, I just wish some electricity didn’t get invented. Look at us; Credit crunch is hitting us and we can literally visually see that. So many shops closed down! And we have taxes, why? The use of electricity.

I mean, you think about it, we’re criminals.. we really are… we’re killing our planet. Why do people drive, and not walk to a 5 minute store? Why don’t people turn off pointless electrical equipment, that we really don’t need to use at the time? I hate it, and I have something to say about it. One of my to-do lists before I die, is to make a speech, maybe the whole world won’t listen, but in public, so everyone could hear, so they could bring those camera’s, and use them for something actually neccersary. Why are people so caring being the one fooled? There ARE nice people out there..
Are you a person who is interested in green energy and using Solar Energy Panels or creating your own Home Wind Power, then you are just like myself. I have had a keen interest in green energy every since I studied Architecture many many years ago. At that time I learned that is was possible to build homes that are completely self sufficient which was so compelling to me I had to know more.

So if you think about it. We’re all criminals. We can’t all hurt my opinons, because they are NOT opinons … they are facts – simple facts. I care about this world, and if people don’t, what’s the point in living if everyone knows our family will die? There’s been one big bang, there’s no reason for it to happen again. Everything happens more than once, then ends:
We have oil, more comes, but it will end.
We have coal, more comes, but it will end too.
We have the big bang, more will come, but it will end eventually, maybe later than sooner if we do something.

So get up from your seat now, and this is a command, not an option, and turn off a light (just ONE light) that you don’t think is needed. I am telling you, more people who do it, it will REALLY help.

I want to save the world. So ask yourself a question, but answer it later, when you don’t realise you actually answered yourself a question: Are you a criminal?

I mean, Are you killing our world? We make a team to kill the world, how about we make a team to save the world?

Thank you.

I totally agree with you. I wish there were more people who cared about the enviornment, but sadly there isn’t. Unfortunately there’s alot of selfish and uncaring people out there who can’t see past their own lifetime and their own consumer driven lives with the plasma tv and large car.

What I find really sad is that even if people don’t want to be environemntal activists and chain themselves to a tree which is quite understandable, they label people who do care about the environment as ‘greenies’ as if it is something bad. What is the harm about someone trying to conserve nature? It is something that benefits everyone and the future generations to come.

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If we rely so heavily on oil and want alternate fuels sources at an affordable price, why dont we drill the US

Mr. Bush has finally approved drilling in Alaska, where are we on that? We have not made a new more efficient refinery in over 30 years, why dont we build or rebuild those? Its quite obvious that we have a severe problem that needs to be corrected now and can be corrected now with minimal environmental "carbon footprints" (stupid term). Everyone can say that the supply and demand is causing this hardship for Americans yet we rely on foreign oil? If we don’t want to use all our oil up, lets create a government backed program that does not include "big oil" in any of the decision making progress. 405 billion in revenue last year based on foreign oil, that is a lot of jobs and money to pump into OUR economy right? Not just the rich either. I may be way out of whack here with this post but I am fed up. If it costs too much for foreign oil then lets get it domestically!Are you a person who is interested in green energy and using Solar Energy Panels or creating your own Home Wind Power, then you are just like myself. I have had a keen interest in green energy every since I studied Architecture many many years ago. At that time I learned that is was possible to build homes that are completely self sufficient which was so compelling to me I had to know more.

Mr. Bush needs Congress to agree. The gains in supply from ANWR would not stripped by price increases from rising demand for oil.

It is more profitable to keep refineries as is than to rebuild a new plant or expand capacity. Even if no one cared about carbon footprint, no company wants to expand refinery capacity because utilization is already greater than 90%. To add more capacity would decrease utilization. To decrease utilization is to increase capacity that is unused.

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What will the signing of the Kyoto Protocol mean for average Australians, since we know it will be VERY soon?

All along Kevin Rudd has said that if he is elected as Australia’s Prime Minister, One of his first acts will be to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
Kevin 07 has won the election as of last night!

The entire modern world (excepting the US and Australia) signed the Kyoto Protocol years ago, some of which signed over a decade ago, and they’ve spent that time implementing changes to their lifestyle and energy generation and usage to reduce their carbon footprint and their ecological impact.

Australia, on the other hand, has done just about nothing on a national level. Now don’t think I’m disregarding the noble efforts of hundreds of thousands of Australians who embraced this truth long ago, despite our governments’ complacency, because those people are the one’s who approached Kevin 07 in shopping centre’s on the subject of climate change; those are the people who urged a Midnight Oil singer into parliament, and a Triple J science presenter into senate.

We’ve got some catching up to do!
Well said Afeasf A. I had a good laugh out of that. Please feel free to elaborate on your answer!

Kyoto is a flawed agreement in that major polluters (China, India, Russia) are exempted from emissions targets. And look at their environments!! Many signatories classed as "developed" are struggling to attain targets, but it is also well in the past, and a new treaty is being pursued that hopefully will address deficiencies, including what to do with currently exempt polluters. Rudd has said he will forge ahead with this.

For us, well, do we stop selling our resources to China etc? It seems hypocritical to bleat on about signing Kyoto and then still sell polluting fossil fuels- so maybe something will happen there with resultant impact on economy and jobs. Plus we will all pay MAJOR increases in essential services like electricity and gas as the companies pass on the costs of meeting targets (or probably just paying a pollution tax, which won’t solve the problem!). Prepare for big increases perhaps in costs of fossil fuels- ie petrol! This will, of course, impact on cost of living, and so we may find wages and inflationary pressures impacting on interest rates as well. Hopefully though unions will hold back on wage claims, and ask members to do their bit for the planet (ie make do with less).

Welcome to the greenies world…. but, presumably, anyone who voted green/labor realised these would be the consequences and will be happy to make sacrifices, like slightly lowering our standard of living as we move to a more sustainable way of living that does away with the excessive materialism of the Western world. Or at least they should be…

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will some one help me plese i need info?

i have been doing research for many months now an would like web sites on how to build your own gasifier generater and various things on alternate energy sources the ww2 gasifier plans if possible solar panels hydrogen genarator thnigs of that sort and i know its off topic but a kit that was 50$ or so long long ago to make a bycicle gas power if you can get any of that i would apreciate it very much ps maby even a pump like a water pump small if possible thnx a million

I don’t know if any of these sites will help or not.

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Why can’t wind energy be used for generating power for home use?

Came across this interesting article on Tiny Plastic Wind Turbines that can be placed on rooftops and balconies in crowded cities. Cost very little. These turbines generate electricity which gets stored in cells and can be used to power appliances.

Are such products being installed some place?

What are the costs involved? Installation, maintenance?
Chk out this link :

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/hong_kong_inven.php

I suppose it’s not a question of wind energy "can’t" be used but "when"?

Inertia – resistance to change in the status quo. Not all are blessed with foresight and the desire to do better.

You may want to explore, fabricate your own prototype. The only limit will be fear of failure, if you have it. Thomas Alva Edison failed 99% of the time but the resultant success, that is; 1% of his experiments, has altered the very way we live.

As an old Nike ad goes: Just Do It!

You may surprise yourself.

Try the following search phrase: wind turbines, home applications.
I just did and there are numerous results, very promising.

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Is this philosophy or idea plagiarized?

The Strings:

Each responsibility or liability or prejudice or presumption is a string. Pulling You (Self) in one direction or another. Only for the most part, The Strings in 1st World Consumer Nations are pulled by falsehoods or lies or vested interests. Instead of being pulled by a string you yourself have set up and you yourself pull or a relative or loved one pulls we are now pulled by commercials, culture morals, social norms, the status quo, education, jobs, brands, prestige that were set up by not Us the Individual but by Particular Few who made Our World, here in this nation here on this land here on this planet here in the solar system here in this galazy here in this universe. But before we can understand The Strings we have to understand what the Earth is, a planet inhabited by animals plants fungi and then we have to understand that our culture is a destructive culture (masochist even) and it’s all in the head (of billions – because with the pop. Booming that means that more and more children are learning the culture longer and longer) but it’s a lie, our culture, a lie not forced into our brains because it does not have to force itself into our minds any longer, all that we see and hear while were in The Synthethic Culture, we are always immersed in it. We don’t even realize we are in a destructive culture because we are completely unaware of it like breathing? Or walking on the ground (because when you are walking on the ground you are more aware of walking then of the ground) So, The Strings are a metaphor for the New Agents of persuasion. Having a job means following orders from your boss, listening to your co-workers, customers, policies, rules, Thank You Come Again, Have A Wonderful Day are all strings not as influential but very much influenced. Buying a car means leases, means having to set money aside for the payments, means not doing what you want to do, means more responsibilities for something Synthetic Culture approved and invented. We are now pulled in certain directions by adverts, trends, fashion, culture to believe this or to believe that. We are no longer free we are merely puppets unaware of their strings. What would a puppet unaware of The Strings think about him(her)self?

The Strings get so wound up and myriad that by the end of your life, you really can’t say YOU lived YOUR life but The Strings lived it for you and you were just along for the ride. Walking on the Ground.

Freedom.

Humans strayed off the path in Sumer, w/ the invention of agriculture of working year round to harvest to settle in one place. (what if boredom or at least bad cases of it started after we settled down?

We need to experience the world because we are a part of it and because we can.

Originality an endangered species?
So many choices to choose from why make one up. W/ all the information going through the ether, just there for the us to snatch, is there a point to originality anymore? We can all be something that has already been proven to work out. That people like and people are used to. If not all people some people, who are aware of that side of originality. But, when ideas become accessible to just about everyone, and information started to coagulate in the human collective there was no need for us as human to strive to be original. Originality was out there, already just waiting for us to emulate it. Now, we have tens of thousands Buddhists, billions of Christians, thousands of this or that. And, in my opinion, it’s getting worse because our archetypes are getting dumber and plainer and two dimensional. The next generation’s lineup will be Hannah Montana, Zoey 101, High School Musical’s cast; now, since our generation was a bunch of imitated originals, our next generation will be imitations of imitations. Until, the human race detaches itself completely from nature and the human spirit and attches itself to it’s culture and society and television identities. We are the Generation of Imitations.

That’s quite original; not at all plagiarized. Good luck developing it into something publishable.

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Is it Wrong to Support Ethanaol & Alternate Fuels as a Way of Making the Lives of Poor & Elderly Miserable?

Or is it ok to support ethanol even if it causes the poor and elderly to suffer as long as that wasn’t you intent?
delph,

LOL… I have an elderly widow relative —- blue collar — who was told by her heating supplier that she’ll pay $7,000 to heat her house next winter. She is frail and gets $14,000 in income per year. Nahhhh… she’s not suffering at all.
delph,

Amazingly, that lady’s fuel bill has doubled since Pelosi and the Dems promised they would cut fuel prices if they won in 2006

haaaaa,,,,if anyone has a lick of sense they would see CORN is for food period. f.p

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solar energy…..????

need some simple information about solar energy and power. Do solar panels absorb the suns rays? what are the benefits of solar energy? and other basic information

10 points for best answer

The panels absorb light from the sun, and convert directly into electricity. They are used in outer space, and remote locations on earth to generate power over long periods of time without maintenance. Anyplace else they are used, they are not cost effective.

To supply a small house with 3600 watts (when the weather is good and the sun shines) costs over $30,000. This isn’t enough power to air condition a home or do much of anything else. (It will power 36 100 watt incandescent light bulbs … when the sun is shining and the weather good.)

If you lived up north where no a/c was needed, used propane to heat and run a refrigerator (yes you can refrigerate just using propane as the energy source), used LED lighting, had some deep discharge storage batteries, a back-up propane generator, notebook computer, etc. you might possibly be able to sort of get by with solar cells.

But cost effective? No. And being an engineering to tie it all together and keep running would be helpful.

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