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Does hydro power contribute to global warming?
No, hydro power is renewable energy, which has no carbon dioxide emissions.
Do hydro power projects emit carbon dioxide?
No. Water power ( or hydro) is powered by turbines. This factor depends on who actually places it there.
Is hydro power cleaner than fossil fuels?
Yes. Hydro power has no dangerous, global-warming-causing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
How does hydro power best break your dependence on oil and fossil fuels?
Hydro power is clean, green and renewable, with no carbon dioxide emissions. Moving to hydro and other renewable energies means we can break our dependence on fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) for ever.
Is solar power carbon neutral?
No, it is not, not at first. But the first three months of use usually compensates for for the production emissions. In calculating the carbon footprint, the carbon costs of manufacture, transportation, and installation all have to be included, as do the costs of uninstallation and disposal at the end of the life cycle of the apparatus. The carbon footprint of solar power is small. Solar thermal power, such as is used in solar hot water, can have a smaller carbon footprint than wind or hydro, because the manufacturing cost (in terms of carbon emissions) of solar thermal can be kept to a minimum. Solar photovoltaics (PVs) have a larger carbon footprint than wind or hydro, though modern PVs have a carbon footprint that is not much bigger, perhaps twice as big. This is because a lot of energy is used in manufacture. Older PVs had a much larger carbon footprint because they were less efficient (produced less power) and manufacture required gasses like nitrogen trifluoride (NFl3), which is about 17000 times as powerful as CO2 as a greenhouse gas. The NFl3 was trapped, but tiny amounts of it escaped, and these had to be accounted for. The operation of solar power can be carbon neutral, but this does not consider the total carbon footprint as it should be - "cradle to grave," as they say.
What is another name for fossil fuel that starts with Hydro?
hydro-carbon
What is the name of hydro carbon chain which has 14 carbon?
tetradec-
Is carbon and nitrogen a coordinate covalent bond?
hydro carbon
What are the sources of hydro power project?
what are sources of hydro power project
How is hydro power better than wind power?
wind is better than hydro because wind generate more power then hydro
How do you harvest hydro power?
how do you havest hydro?
How does nuclear power compare to hydro power and biomass energy in terms of greenhouse gas emissions?
Neither nuclear power nor hydro power produce greenhouse gases during operation. Burning biomass produces CO2, but it can be argued that during the growing of the biomass material it absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere, so it is actually neutral.
