Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts

Sunday, June 30, 2013

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

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

Hydrogen cycle

Myths and Facts of Renewable Energy

Wind Energy

Wind energy