From the words of Mahatma Ghandi, “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” This quotation holds highly true, despite society’s lack of recognition towards the concept. We religiously use non-renewable resources to meet our wants and needs at a rate too rapid for the source to replenish, which is causing depletion levels to rise. As this is done, we are also releasing emissions into our atmosphere that destroy the ozone layer and increase the effects of global warming. An excellent replacement of energy sources that inflate our global environmental crises is the use of tidal energy. This form of energy makes use of tidal flow to conduct electricity to be used across communities in a reliable way, yet it is majorly overlooked by society. By making tidal energy our world’s main power source, we would be able to live more sustainable lives in terms of energy production and the reduction of coal mining, as well as realizing that this innovative development is comparable to that of discovering the wheel. The ability to produce electricity in a way that is emission free and completely renewable allows tidal energy to earn the reputation of being a highly sustainable choice for communities to invest in. Once a tidal energy plant has been built across an estuary, which is the part of a river where the tide meets the stream, the energy production process is able to begin. First, the tides must pass through the installed machinery and tunneling. The tidal waves that the production process uses are present between ten and twenty hours per day, and are therefore producing kinetic energy for the majority of each day. As the tide falls in and out, the motion causes water to move through the b... ... middle of paper ... ... Energy Company. Ecotricity, n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. "Energy Resources: Tidal Power." Energy Resources: Tidal Power. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2014. Finder, Idea. "Invention of the Wheel." Wheel History - Invention of the Wheel. The Great Idea Finder, 2005. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. Gabbard, Alex. "Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger." (2008): n. pag. Http://web.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. "Mining Impacts." Greenpeace International. Greenpeace, 2010. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. Pelc, Robin, and Rob Fujita. "ScienceDirect." Renewable Energy from the Ocean. Science Direct, 2013. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. Retiere, C. "Tidal Power and Aquatic Environment of La Rance." N.p., 2010. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. Vine, Ivy. "How Does Electro Magnetic Induction Work? - Yahoo Answers." How Does Electro Magnetic Induction Work? Yahoo!, 2012. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.
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The microbial loop is the most critical process in the marine food web, because it increases the efficiency of the system by making dissolved organic matter available to other organisms in the food web. It provides the matter and energy for the rest of the system and keeps the energy flowing. These in turn have implications on very important resources such as productivity of fisheries or how much carbon is able to reach the ocean floor. In this paper, research was done to see why and how the microbial loop is such an important process in the oceans. Also discussed in this paper, are what the loop consists of, how it operates, the matter and energy that cycles through the loop, as well...
To produce more energy efficiently, there are several models designed to absorb as much energy as possible. One example includes the oscillating water column. This model has two openings, one on the bottom for the water to enter and another narrow passage that allows air in and out a chamber that contains a turbine. The water comes from the bottom and pressurizes air, forcing it to go through the narrow passage spinning the turbine. When the water is on its way out, the air comes out through the narrow passage thus spinning the turbine again. Another one is an overtopping device. This device is a reservoir where there is an opening on the top for a turbine outlet. It is meant for when the waves topple over the reservoir the water goes down the opening which, in turn spins the turbine. The Pelamis sea snake are “snake-like” buoys that are tethered together with rotation devices that use the wave’s horizontal force to produce rotation energy.
The conflict between the environmental pollution of coal plants and the possible threats of having a nuclear reactions is very controversial. The fact the coal itself when burned releases carcinogenic materials into the atmosphere is very apparent the it is dangerous, yet it has been present and is not always as detrimental to the areas that are a good distance away from the area of the plant.
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Coastlines are some of the most dynamic, high energy ecosystems on Earth (Woodroffe 2002). They are constantly evol...
Energy can be put into two broad categories Renewable energy and none renewable energy. Renewable energy sources can be reused continually as they are abundantly found in nature. All of them are non-polluting but devices used to collect the energy may impact the environment adversely. They are free but producing storage equipment or converting them into another form of energy may be costly.