Why Solar Power (and other renewables)

Solar power makes sense because the sun and wind is everywhere----yes not all the time----but anything we have to dig out of the ground-----oil, gas, coal, uranium etc has problems with delivering these systems----ships, pipelines, digging rigs etc.

Also water (H2O) is hydrogen from sun and oxygen----so sun can be used to create water

Geothermal makes more sense only because the earth is well---all over the earth---no special products needed there----uranium mined from Africa or asia, oil in middle east, coal in US etc

Wind is created by the Sun heating the earth unevenly----because earth is round, sun heats some areas faster then others, due to direct sunlight---so warm air rises and then cools in wind cycle----

Sources of US energy

2012 Crude Oil Imports

Solar power on earth

How fossil fuel power plants work----its basically turning a turbine over a magnet----nuclear, coal, natural gas etc ONLY used to boil water and create steam to turn the turbine!!!!!!

again Nuclear power only used to create steam

Sun evaporation creates water cycle

http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/EarthSystems/Water_Cycle_Activity_files/image001.jpg

Hydrogen---from the sun----creates water

http://www.need.org/needpdf/infobook_activities/SecInfo/HydrogenS.pdf

Hydrogen cycle

http://www.keepbanderabeautiful.org/hydrogen-cyclei.jpg

PATH TO 100% RENEWABLES BY 2030
http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/sad1109Jaco5p.indd.pdf 

Myths and Facts of Renewable Energy

http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/MythsvsRealitiesWWS.pdf

Wind Energy

http://www.need.org/needpdf/infobook_activities/ElemInfo/WindE.pdf

Wind energy

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm