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Apart from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), we produce electricity from renewable energy (solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, biomass, biofuel and hydrogen).
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What does a nuclear reactor do in a nuclear power plant?
You rip apart an atom which releases great energy in the form of heat. The energy causes water to evaporate which turns a turbine. The turning turbine creates electricity. This is how a nuclear reactor works.
How can copper be removed from an electric motor?
Take it apart and burn the insulation out, if you can, in a pile of brush. Or you could also take a torch to it and see if that gets the insulation out. If you use flame to melt the copper, beware of toxic fumes from burning rubber and plastic insulation.
How does the capacitance change if the voltage across the capacitor is doubled?
As capacitance is not affected by voltage, nothing will happen! Capacitance is affected only by the area of overlap of the plates, their distance apart, and the permittivity of the dielectric.
Why do studs need to be so far apart?
Studs need to be spaced quite far apart in order to provide sufficient structural support for the wall. This spacing helps distribute the weight and load of the wall evenly, ensuring its stability and strength. It also allows for the installation of insulation or other materials between the studs to improve the wall's energy efficiency.
How far apart should screws be placed in a metal roof?
how far apart should screws be placed ina metal roof
What resources apart from fossil fules are?
steam electricity nuclear power wood burning
What does burning fossil fuels and cellular respiration have in common?
Both release carbon into the atmosphere, but burning fossil fuels releases CO2 at a much greater amount. Both cellular respiration and combustion require a core fuel for the process to happen at all. This fuel is stored energy, and the entire process of combustion or respiration is to convert that energy from its stored state -- in the fuel -- to another state that the engine, either mechanical or bionic, can use to power its other operations. While fossil fuels and sugar molecules have very different structures, they both have a series of molecular bonds that the energy harvesting process will break apart.
How is solar energy useful to man plants and animals?
Apart from round geothermal centers, all the energy in the biosphere and in the fossil fuel reserves of the planet has its origins in sunlight.
The process of burning a fuel to change chemical energy into thermal energy is called?
When a fuel is burned, it is a combustion reaction. This reaction breaks apart chemical bonds and releases the energy stored in them.
What is definition of chemical energy?
Chemical Energy Is Thee Level Of Energy That Is Expended In Chemical Reactions To Break Apart Or Produce New Molecules. Chemical Energy Can Release Of Another Form Of Energy.
How does a nuclear power station differ from a fossil fuel burning power station?
unlike fossil fuel power stations that burn coal, oil or gas nuclear power stations use atoms to keep it brief: the atoms in the reactor split apart and releases heat energy. unlike the fossil fuel power stations which just simply burn fossil fuels another difference is that nuclear power can be very dangerous and can have disastrous effects if something goes wrong, an example of this would be the disaster at Chernobyl in Russia. also the nuclear power plants produce a large amount of radioactive waste which can take millions of years to degrade. please add to this
What type of organism gets its energy by breaking down dead orgainsms structures?
when fossil fuels are burned, releasing carbon to the atmosphere, is this apart of the carbon cycle
What is a force that tends to pull atoms apart?
The force that pulls atoms apart is called fission. Nuclear reactors use controlled fission to produce massive amounts of energy.
How can renewable energy sources prevent global warming?
Renewable energy sources are generally carbon emission free, that is, they emit no carbon dioxide (apart from their construction). Present energy sources are mainly fossil fuels, which, when burnt, release carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas which is causing global warming. If we can switch from fossil energy to renewable energy then we have the global warming problem fixed (if we do it quickly enough).
What kind of energy does fission produce?
The initial energy release creates kinetic energy in the fission fragments which fly apart, but they are quickly brought to rest in the surrounding fuel material and this generates heat.
How good is solar power at creating energy?
not at all. First, no energy is created (that only happens in nuclear reactions), but that also does not happen in fossil power plants. Apart from that, we already use a large proportion of the solar power output to produce food. If we were to replace our current power consumption with solar power consumption then we would not have enough land anymore to grow food.
Is a fossil woodpecker hole a trace or a body fossil?
The answer is trace fossil. Why? Because a body fossil is a fossil of a part of the animal. Which means a hole is nowhere apart of animal. And a dead one at that.
