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Wind power
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines. At the end of 2008, worldwide nameplate capacity of wind-powered generators was ...
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Pros: Next best thing to solar in terms of truly being renewable. Reasonably availability of steady wind in much of the world. -
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Solar power
Solar power is by far the Earth's most available energy source, easily capable of providing many times the total current energy demand. However, it is an intermittent energy source ...
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Pros: solar power is derived from a source that will not be depleted ( the sun, obviously) Cons: costly, but research will improve the technology -
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Geothermal power
Geothermal power (from the Greek roots geo, meaning earth, and thermos, meaning heat) is power extracted from heat stored in the earth. This geothermal energy originates from the original formation ...
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Pros: A clean and efficient source of energy Cons: Too costly -
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The Bloom Box
Bloom Energy is a company that installs their solid oxide fuel cells in company buildings and sells them electricity. The company, one of 26 named a 2010 Tech Pioneer by ...
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Pros: small footprint, energy cell that can run on biofuel for a "carbon-neutral" environmental impact. vastly more effective than other forms of energy tech -
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity generated by hydropower, i.e., the production of power through use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form ...
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Pros: No air pollution as a by-product. Relatively abundant in much of the world. Cons: Lose rivers and everything that depended on them. Reservoirs silt ... -
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Wave and Tidal power
Wave power is a form of hydropower that harnesses the power of ocean waves and turns it into electricity.
Tidal energy is a form of hydropower that converts the energy ...Do you like this technology?
Pros: does not cause emissions or waste Cons: not viable on the large scale -
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Conservation
Every watt not used is a watt that you don't have to figure out how to renewably generate and distribute. One of the few renewable energy sources that actually ...
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Pros: Yes, this is the "low hanging fruit" that's easy. Turn off appliances at the wall. Install ... Cons: Needs education and probably law changes to get everyone doing ... -
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is any nuclear technology designed to extract usable energy from atomic nuclei via controlled nuclear reactions. The only method in use today is through nuclear fission, though other ...
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Pros: Nuclear Power is the best bang for the buck now. No pun intended. In the last ... Cons: People have an irrational fear of radiation. The waste is ... -
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Biofuel
Biofuel is defined as solid, liquid or gaseous fuel obtained from relatively recently lifeless biological material and is different from fossil fuels, which are derived from long dead biological material ...
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Pros: Good if it can be made from side products, like the scrap from sugar cane etc. Cons: Bad if it is made from, say, corn which is ... -
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Clean coal technology
Clean coal technology is an umbrella term used to describe technologies being developed that aim to reduce the environmental impact of coal energy generation. These include chemically washing minerals and ...
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Pros: Lots of coal in the world. Cons: You still have all the destruction created from mining the ...