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What are the advantages of wind and water energy over coal and oil?
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Wind and water are known as renewable resources, meaning we can easily keep creating energy as needed. However, coal and oil are materials that took millions of years to create and will eventually run out. They also cause massive pollution.
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What type of energy does the US use the most?
Coal, oil, natural gas
What is potential energy converted into as water runs over a waterfall?
Kinetic energy
What energy resource can be burnt to produce light and heat energy from underground rocks?
Coal is a rock-like fossil fuel produced from dead plants and animals over millions of years.
How many employees in department of energy?
At it's peak there were over 40,000 jobs created by the dept of energy....not one of whom produced a drop of oil, coal, solar or any other form of energy.
How is solar energy trapped into fuels?
Plants use the energy from sunlight to convert Carbon dioxide and Water into sugars which they then store as starch. When plants die some of them are preserved over a long period of time as fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. These fossil fuels still contain the stored sunlight energy which was originally trapped by the plants millions of years ago.
What are the advantages of using wind energy over using coal for electricity?
Wind energy is a sustainable source meaning it can be used repeatedly. It also doesn't produce CO2 so it is better for the environment.
Where is coal energy found?
Coal energy is present in coal. There are two types of coal: bituminous, or 'soft' coal, and anthracite coal, or hard coal. Coal is a hard rocky substance that is the left-over carbon from huge amounts of plants from ages past which died, and have been covered over by sometimes thousands of feet of rock and dirt.
What has been used over the past 150 years to produce most of the worlds energy?
helloooooooo!!! um......oil, coal, gas, water and nuclear energy. Tehe
What are the advantages of hydro-electricity over coal power?
1.It is renewable unlike coal 2.Makes barely any pollution compared to coal. 3.Reduces greenhouse emissions.
Explain how coal is a store of solar energy?
Coal is composed of old plant material that was chemically altered over the course of millions of years. The coal contains energy from sunlight that the plants captured and stored via photosynthesis.
What are two advantages of solar energy over fossil fuels?
its
What are the economics advantages of solar energy?
Political grants and tax breaks. In most applications solar energy is not economically beneficial or has advantages over other forms of energy.
What do they do with the left over water after washing coal?
They will use it up!! They never waste water
What are the advantages of propane over natural gas?
Higher energy content
Why is waste better than coal?
coal has to be burned in order to gain energy, whereas waste can be fermented at 35 oC to give its energy over an extended amount of time. Note that the question is biased!
What is an advantage of solar energy over coal?
It does not release pollution such as carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
What advantages does oil have over coal?
Oil is usually cleaner to mine and transport than coal (unless there's an oil spill!)Oil emits less carbon dioxide pollution than coal when burnt, so it contributes less to global warming than coal does.
