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    catastrophic results on our environment. Acid rain is caused by air pollution, which is due to man-made actions.      Scientists have discovered that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels is the major cause of acid rain. Power plants and factories burn coal and oil, which is used to produce the electricity we need to heat and light our homes and to run our electric appliances. We also burn natural gas, coal, and oil to heat our homes, and our cars, trucks, boats, and airplanes

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    Nuclear Fusion: The Future of Energy Nowadays, energy is pivotal to almost every major challenge and opportunity the world confronts. Be it for jobs, security, climate change, food production or increasing incomes, access to energy for all is essential. Sustainable energy is needed for strengthening economies, protecting ecosystems and achieving equity. In accordance with The UN Conference on Environment and Development, energy consumption is expected to increase dramatically over the next 50 years

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    and electrical power storage and recovery using pumped storage methods are normally carried out by the electrical power industry. Electricity is most often generated at a power station by electromechanical

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    that time, for instance; the first electrical generator capable of delivering enough power to industry which was called “Dynamo”; it consisted in rotating coils of wire and magnetic fields to convert mechanical rotation into a direct electric current. At the very beginning Generators were built at the places where the power was more in demand, especially since there was no energy companies that operated the power grid like we do now a days. Later on around the 1870’s, other many inventors started

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    not win an election until 1861 when Abraham Lincoln took office. (Goshen, Chapter 10 Notes) Ronald Reagan completely changed the way the federal government works when he undid many of the things Franklin D. Roosevelt created when Reagan dissolved power back to the states, in support of the ideals of the Republican party. The Republican Argument Freedom is what our ancestors fought for in the Revolutionary War: freedom to do what we want with our lives and freedom from taxation without representation

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    independence . These sources are wind ,solar ,geothermal, hydro, nuclear and renewable bio fuels. Some of these sources are renewable , meaning they can be replenished, while others like nuclear, are non-renewable, yet are clean sources of energy. For better sustainability , society continues to explore the challenges of these energy options to help implement the necessary changes for an environmentally friendly and energy independent future. Nuclear energy Although the second world war was devastating

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    Not many people fully know what happened at Chernobyl, or understand the effect it has had on today’s nuclear science. Chernobyl has been named as the largest man-made disaster ever recorded. Chernobyl is the most influential and important event during the 1980’s because it has completely changed how the world views anything nuclear by changing experimentation and usage of nuclear materials and power as a whole. It was extremely influential because it caused thousands of people to move out of their

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    Slide 11 In Pennsylvania, the worst nuclear power plant accident in the United States occurred. Nuclear power plants generate a mass of electricity using steam generators. The plants are very controversial concerning their safety with the environment and its role with unstable reactants like uranium and plutonium. On March 12, 1979, someone at the Three Mile Island’s second reactor, or TMI-2 for short, left a relief valve wide open leading large amounts of nuclear reactant cooling to the main reactor

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    Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster For Emergency Management Madhuri Latha. Denumkonda Southeast Missouri State University Dec 6, 2014 INTRODUCATION A huge earthquake with size of 8.9 has struck the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011. It was the fourth greatest in present recorded history. The few minutes of earthquake trigged

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    For decades now, global warming has been a recurring issue. The term “global warming” first appeared in geochemist Wallace Broecker’s 1975 Science magazine article, “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” and since then dozens of more studies have evaluated the effects of the global warming. But what is global warming? Well global warming is the effect of greenhouse gases on the earth’s surface temperature. Greenhouse gases are gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and

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