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What are the advantages of fossil fuel hydroelectricity solar energy?
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Fossil Fuel
Advantages:
-Usually cheap electricity
-Already infrastructure, power plants already operating
-For oil/coal/natural gas producing countries, exporting can bring in money
-Power plants able to produce high electricity output reliably
Disadvantages:
-Carbon emissions contribute to climate change
-Finite resources
-Especially w/ oil and gas, price fluctuation
Hydroelectricity
Advantages:
-Usually cheap electricity
-High electricity output
-No carbon emissions
-Relatively reliable
Disadvantages:
-Dams can flood large areas, forcing people/animals to move away
-Dams can disrupt fish breeding areas
-Somewhat unreliable (winter can = frozen rivers, drought = not much flow)
Solar Energy
Advantages:
-No carbon emissions
-Little maintenance
-High potential output
-Rapidly improving technology
Disadvantages:
-Currently costs a lot more than hydro or coal/gas electricity
-Can take up a lot of land
-Currently has low efficiency of converting sunlight to electricity
-Production of panels can emit a little harmful non-carbon emissions
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Why fossil and solar energy the same?
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Earth's energy sources?
There are many of energy sources in earth like solar energy, geothermal energy, hydroelectricity, tide energy, nuclear energy.
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