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Why is it important to know whether a resource is renewable or nonrenewable?
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1.) Because it determines whether or not investing in this particular resource will be practical in the long term. For example, uranium is NOT a renewable resource, which is why fission nuclear energy which uses uranium won't be around too long if only Earth's uranium is used. 2.) Because your homework depends on it.
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Is geothermal power renewable or nonrenewable?
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Is the sun is a nonrenewable?
In the very far distant future, the sun will eventually burn out. So, one could say that it is non-renewable.
Is rubber a non-renewable resource?
Soil can indeed be considered a non renewable resource. This is because the process to replace it takes a lot of years.
Is carbon dioxide a non renewable resources?
Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) are non-renewable.They took millions and millions of years to form and are being used up in a time scale of hundreds of years. When they are gone, it will take millions of years again for the processes that create coal and oil to happen.When we use them, they are gone. This is the opposite of renewable sources of energy, like wind and solar, which can be used over and over.
How are non-renewable resources formed?
Renewable energy is energy created by something that you can use over and over again. and then purple dinosaurs lick volcanic ash out of a volcano and do there mother and urs to. A few instances of this would be electricity created by "Solar Cells" and "Windmills". You never run out of wind and sun like you do fossil fuels (oil).
Define flow resource?
A flow resource is neither a renewable resource or a non-renewable resource. It does not remain in one location and moves about because of natural actions in the physical environment. Therefore, it must be used when and where it occurs. Examples of flow resources are: running water, solar radiation, wind, and tides.
Is biodiversity a renewable or nonrenewable resource?
Wild animals are self sustaining through reproduction, but they are probably non-renewable, if the primary meaning of renewable is 'inexhaustible'. The estimate is that 99% of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct. Depending on whether or not they are consumed in some way during their use as a resource, wildlife could be seen as non-renewable.
Are fish renewable resource?
Fish are renewable, since they live on renewable foods and reproduce by natural means. Whether something is renewable or not depends on the difference between how fast it is removed and how fast it is replaced. Living things reproduce themselves, and some can do it faster than others. Flies and rabbits breed quickly, while oak trees and whales breed slowly. If you wanted to get rid of all the flies in the world, you'd have to work very fast to kill as many as you could as quickly as you could, because otherwise the remaining flies would soon repopulate the world and you'd have to start again. But if you wanted to get rid of all the oak trees, you wouldn't have to work nearly as fast. It takes a very long time for an acorn to grow into an adult tree, and provided you work faster than that, you can remove all oak trees faster than they can reproduce and replace themselves. So the question about fish is really a question about how fast the population can replace the fish that we remove from the sea. If we remove one or other species of fish faster than it can reproduce, it is not a renewable resource. If we remove them at a rate that the population can replace, it is a renewable resource. In other words, if we are careful, considerate and conservative, fish are a renewable resource. If we are greedy, and take them from the sea too quickly, then they are not renewable.
Is heat a renewable resource?
It depends on what fuel is used. If the fuel is coal, natural gas, gasoline, or oil, then it is not renewable because no one makes these things. If the fuel is a biomass such as wood, it might be renewable or not, depending on whether it is regrown. Wood that is responsibly cut comes from trees or forests that continue to grow, and these take carbon dioxide out of the air, offsetting the fact that the fire burning the wood puts carbon dioxide into the air. Other examples can be cited, but the answer to the question lies in whether the fuel is grown or made currently, or does it come from some old repository, usually underground.
Can the resources involved whether they are nonliving living or human be defined as renewable or nonrenewable in relation to the pace scale and character of development?
Yes, that can be done. When we decide whether a resource is renewable or not, that does actually depend upon the rate at which that resource is consumed. Fresh water is a renewable resource in the sense that there is a continuing supply of fresh water, in the form of rain. However it is certainly possible to consume fresh water faster than the rain can replenish it, in which case fresh water is not entirely renewable, and it can still become exhausted (which, of course, has happened in many parts of the world). No resource is completely unlimited. We don't expect to run out of breathable air, yet, it is possible (at least in theory) to have a planetary population so large that the existing green plant life would not be sufficient to replenish the oxygen supply, which would then not be as renewable as it used to be. I can imagine, in principle, that in such a ridiculously overpopulated world, it could become necessary to use electrolysis to manufacture oxygen from water, to make sure we have enough to breathe. Of course, in such a situation we would also have a severe problem getting enough food to eat. Perhaps hunger would get to us before we rain out of oxygen. Sunlight is the ultimate renewable resource, because it is so plentiful and so reliable. But since there is no upper limit to the power consumption of the human race, it is possible that we could capture and utilize all the available sunlight and still not have enough for our needs. I don't really expect that to happen, but it is possible in theory.
Why can solar energy be described as a renewable energy resource?
Technically it isn't... the Sun will eventually run out of fuel... but for all practical purposes on the human timescale it might as well be renewable, because the Sun is pouring out energy whether we use any of it or not, and it'll continue to do so for several billion years, again regardless of whether we use none, some, or all of it.
Which factor determines what resources are considered nonrenewable?
Whether they can be replaced as fast as they are used
