Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Energy Part 1

Nuclear energy: pros, it has relatively low costs other than building the the power plant, they provide a stable base load of energy, create low pollution however the nuclear waste is very harmful and has a high energy densit meaning that it releases ten million more amount of energy than burning fossil fuel. Cons, the nuclear waste posses has a huge threat to the environment and is dangerous to humans, difficult to find a place to store the nuclear waste, the plants emit negligible amount of carbon dioxide into the air and meltdowns pose as a threat if a plant does go boom the blast radius is 300km. 
Solar energy: pros, it's  renewable energy source, sustainable, it's also very environmentally friendly, refuses electricity costs and low maintenance. Cons, expensive to install a solar panel, energy storage can be expensive, I can be associated with pollution do to the nitrogen trifluroide and surlfur haxafluroide that is found in the panels and exotic materials certain solar cells require expensive and rare material found in nature.  
Wind energy : pros, renewable energy source, space-efficient, low operational costs however some wind turbines need more maintenance than others and cause no pollution. Cons, unpredictable do to it needs wind to work, costly to put a few of them up and noise they create a lot of noise when operating. 

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