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dpurdy

How Wind Works | Wind Energy Foundation - 0 views

www.windenergyfoundation.org/...how-wind-works

wind form

shared by dpurdy on 24 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Wind is simply air in motion. It is caused by the uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the sun. Because the Earth's surface is made of very different types of land and water, it absorbs the sun's heat at different rates. One example of this uneven heating can be found in the daily wind cycle.
  • Mechanical or electrical power is created through the kinetic energy of the wind.
dpurdy

How does an electrical generator work? - 0 views

www.sommersgen.com/...about-generators.php

convert

shared by dpurdy on 25 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Electric generators are essentially coils of electric conductors, usually copper wire, that are tightly wound onto a metal core and are mounted to spin around inside an array of large magnets
  • the copper conductor can spin at very high speeds through the magnetic field, producing a powerful flow of electricity. The same principle applies whether the generator is driven by a bicycle wheel, a tractor engine or a steam turbine.
dpurdy

Explainer: what are biofuels? | Biofuels | SBS World News - 0 views

www.sbs.com.au/...Explainer-what-are-biofuels

biofuel form

shared by dpurdy on 06 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • The biofuel industry takes the chemical energy contained in organic materials and converts this into useful energy sources. However, it is not necessarily a sustainable industry. Daniel Tan explains.
  • dpurdy on 06 Apr 13
     
    Explanation of the form of bio fuels.
dpurdy

Tidal Power - Costs - Pros & Cons - How it Works - Green Energy - 0 views

clean-future.com/...tidal-power

tide form convert

shared by dpurdy on 06 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Tidal power is a predictable source of energy unlike that of wind power and solar power because the tides follow the gravitational pull of the moon. The general production of tidal energy is similar to other forms of hydroelectric power where the force of water flow spins a turbine which generates energy.
  • he tidal stream generator uses the kinetic energy of the flowing tide to spin windmill like turbines. It is also often referred to as a tidal energy converter (TEC).
  • Tidal power is the production of electricity by the utilization of tidal energy.
smithkai143

Re: How is tidal power converted to electricity? - 0 views

www.madsci.org/...1017154685.Ph.r.html

tidal convert how electricity

shared by smithkai143 on 29 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Tidal Energy originates from gravitational energy. Imagine you have a damn- like structure built along a river. During the high tide, the water flows into the river, causing the turbine to rotate and thus generating electricity. During the low tide, the water flows from the river to the sea, again, turning the turbine. (An electricity generating turbine consists of rotating wires surrounded by strong fixed magnetic field)
dpurdy

How we know human activity is causing warming | Environmental Defense Fund - 1 views

www.edf.org/...human-activity-causes-warming

pollution Fossil co2

shared by dpurdy on 30 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • The theory of global warming is nothing new. The Nobel Prize-winning chemist Svante Arrhenius first proposed the idea of global warming in 1896. Carbon dioxide, he knew, traps heat in the Earth's atmosphere. He also knew that burning coal and oil releases carbon dioxide (CO2).
dpurdy

MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing (Wired UK) - 0 views

www.wired.co.uk/...artificial-leaf

solar hydrogen how sustainable

shared by dpurdy on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • The device is an advanced solar cell, no bigger than a typical playing card, which is left floating in a pool of water. Then, much like a natural leaf, it uses sunlight to split the water into its two core components, oxygen and hydrogen, which are stored in a fuel cell to be used when producing electricity.
  • dpurdy on 24 Oct 12
     
    This is an amazing breakthrough in developing hydrogen.
phinneycha99

Energy and kids - 1 views

www.kids.esdb.bg/solar.html

solar how converted

shared by phinneycha99 on 26 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • phinneycha99 on 26 Oct 12
     
    "Photovoltaic cells, like batteries, generate direct current (DC) which is generally used for small loads (electronic equipment).  When DC from photovoltaic cells is used for commercial applications or sold to electric utilities using the electric grid, it must be converted to alternating current (AC) using inverters, solid state devices that convert DC power to AC. "
westkea00

Wave Power - 1 views

www.thinkglobalgreen.org/WAVEPOWER.html

shared by westkea00 on 30 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • The World Energy Council has estimated that approximately 2 terawatts (2 million megawatts), about double current world electricity production, could be produced from the oceans via wave power.
  • Wave energy is generally considered to be the most concentrated and least variable form of renewable energy. It is the high power density of wave energy that suggests it has the capacity to become the lowest cost renewable energy source.
  • Wave energy is a renewable, zero emission source of power
mosherrya99

Fuel Cell Vehicles - 0 views

www.fueleconomy.gov/...fuelcell.shtml

hydrogen pollution

shared by mosherrya99 on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • FCVs run on hydrogen gas rather than gasoline and emit no harmful tailpipe emissions.
ackleysam99

Solar energy 'cheaper than fossil fuels in 5 years' - 0 views

www.lowcarboneconomy.com/...3442

cost

shared by ackleysam99 on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Speaking to Silicon.com, the author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, said that nanotechnology could help solve the world's energy crisis and make solar technology cheaper.
stanglebre99

Wind Development - 0 views

www.citizensenergy.com/...wind-development

transported wind

shared by stanglebre99 on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Negotiating power purchase agreements
  • In some states, where the electricity market has been deregulated, it is possible for the owner of a wind project to sell electricity directly to customers.  However, wind developers usually sell their electricity to electric utilities, which sell the electricity to customers. T his is usually done by negotiating a power purchase agreement, which is a contract requiring a utility to buy the electricity from a wind farm at a certain price over a certain period of time.  In some cases, an alternative arrangement is reached, in which the developer owns a share of the project long enough to mak
  • In some states, where the electricity market has been deregulated, it is possible for the owner of a wind project to sell electricity directly to customers.  However, wind developers usually sell their electricity to electric utilities, which sell the electricity to customers. T his is usually done by negotiating a power purchase agreement, which is a contract requiring a utility to buy the electricity from a wind farm at a certain price over a certain period of time.  In some cases, an alternative arrangement is reached, in which the developer owns a share of the project long enough to make a specified amount of money.  After this point, the ownership in the project “flips,” and the utility ends up owning the project.
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  • a specified amount of mone
troisichr99

Research Report: what are the best uses for solar power - 1 views

ultimate-research-assistant.com/ResearchReport.asp

use

shared by troisichr99 on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • A quick search on TreeHugger shows that ' solar power ' most often occurs in connection with producing electricity and only secondarily in connection with solar water heaters
  • Compared to electrically heated Water , Solar Water Heating is 57% of the internal rate of return, the scientists found
logansar99

EIA Renewable Energy-" Renewable Energy Consumption and Electricity Preliminary 2006 Statistics" - 1 views

www.eia.gov/...rea_prereport.html

wave current

shared by logansar99 on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
    • logansar99
      logansar99 on 24 Oct 12
       
      Wave energy isn't on this chart, so it's mainly experimental.
  • logansar99 on 22 Oct 12
     
    There is a graphic that shows we don't use much wave energy it's mainly experimental.
ballardeth99

Research Report: Is there pollution from tidal energy - 0 views

ultimate-research-assistant.com/ResearchReport.asp

tidal pollution cost

shared by ballardeth99 on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • it offers almost unlimited potential at low costs and with no pollution.
logansar99

Wave (geography) - GCSE Wiki - 0 views

gcse.wikia.com/...Wave_(geography)

wave energy location geography

shared by logansar99 on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Wave energy is generally affected by three main factors: Wind speed - higher wind speed means more wave energy, because the energy is transfered from the wind to the wave. Fetch - the distance of open water over which the wave has travelled across makes a big differenece on wave height and wave energy, as a longer fetch gives the waves longer to 'grow'. Wind duration - with a longer storm, the waves will be bigger.
janosjus99

The History Of Biofuel - 0 views

www.sippin.com/history_of_biofuel.htm

biofuel form

shared by janosjus99 on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • First of all, biofuels come in many varieties, but in general, there are two main products, those that replace (or blend with) gasoline, and those that replace (or are blended with) middle distillate fuels, such as diesel fuel, or home heating oil.
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