Why is electricity non-renewable?

Answer 1

When you use electricity to run a motor or a TV you use it up. It is not renewable.

Renewable means it comes back by itself, like sunshine or wind or waves on the beach. All these are renewable and can be used to generate electricity. But electricity is non-renewable.

The above is pretty much incorrect. Electricity is not a renewable or non-renewable. It is created. The real question should be, Is the energy used to create electricity renewable or non renewable.

The answer to that is both. Depending on the type of electricity generating plant, you will see one or the other. A renewable type of plant would be a solar, wind, or water driven plant. Non- renewable plants would be coal and nuclear fired type of plants.

I hope this cleared things up for you a bit.

Answer 2

Nuclear power is power derived from nuclear reactions. As the resources necessary for these reactions are non-renewable, neither is the product, nuclear power renewable.

Quite simply, radioactive isotopes necessary for nuclear fission (which provides current nuclear power) are a finite, non-replenishing resource, and, as such, they are non-renewable.

Renewable power is power captured which is naturally generated and would otherwise be 'wasted', and any other power sources are considered non-renewable.

Answer 3

Nuclear fission relies on a supply of uranium. All uranium on earth now was produced in supernova explosions 7 to 10 billion years ago, long before our sun even existed. When it is gone it is gone. Unless another nearby supernova explosion dumped some more on us. However the radiation from such a nearby supernova explosion would almost certainly kill all above ground life. That wouldn't help us much.

Answer 4

Fusion combines atoms together to form energy and generates heavier elements. As you continue to form heavier elements you eventually you form iron. Fusing iron together requires more energy than it releases. So once iron is formed fusion is over.

In a star its supernova time.

Answer 5

once we use the Earth's supply of uranium, there will not be any more.

Answer 6

Because in a nuclear power reactor uranium is burnt to produce energy.

Answer 7

They use elements called either Uranium or Plutonium. Using these elements means they are gone and no longer exist in the quantity when you started therefore they are non-renewable.

Answer 8

Because uranium is "burned" in nuclear power reactors; but thinking to the fast nuclear reactors it is not incorrect to consider uranium as a quasi-renewable source of energy.

Answer 9

it isnt.