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    Renewable Energy Is Not the Answer Renewable Energy is defined as: a renewable natural resource or source of energy, such as water, wind, or solar power (Oxford English Dictionary). There are those that believe that our nation should abandon the use of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal, and switch to renewable energy sources. Although the change could yield many benefits, I believe that renewable energy is a not viable alternative for our nation’s energy future because it would create

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    32% of our energy for electricity? Energy makes lots of things work like machines. There is not just one word for energy, another word is power. Two of the main types of energy is renewable, and nonrenewable. Renewable energy is energy used over and over again. Renewable energy will not run out. Some examples of renewable energy is solar energy, hydro energy, and wind energy. Non renewable is energy is that will eventually run out. Some examples of non renewable energy are nuclear energy, coal, and

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    recent years, Europe has been faced with the problem of continuous urbanization and excessive energy consumption, closing in on exhaustion of available energy resources. In view of this, the notions of sustainability and resilience have become paramount in resource management and policy-making. Within such a context, renewable energies play a key role in the global energy pool. Amongst these, wind energy production accounts for almost half (43%) of the global generating capacity [1]. Nonetheless,

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    Renewable energy is defined as using resources that are easily replenished such as water, the sun, or wind, as forms of energy. So why should citizens of the Earth use renewable energy? Many people use renewable energy because of the environmental benefits and the economic benefits or in order to preserve the nonrenewable resources. Using renewable energy sources provides many different benefits for society and for the environment, but they also have drawbacks that makes the use of renewable energy

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    definition, energy is power that is harnessed from physical or chemical resources, often utilized in order to produced light, heat or fuel. It can be extracted from various renewable or non-renewable sources and has become a necessity for day to day life. Currently non-reusable resources account for the majority of energy production. The prominence of fossil fuels in the energy sector validates this claim. At the same time this statement reveals a major world issue in regards to energy sustainability

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    perfect energy sources to make their lives easier. An ideal Energy source is one that costs little to produce, little to maintain, and yields a high energy output. We found a temporary resource that we used for over a century, coal and natural gases. The problem with sources like these are that they will eventually run out. Renewable energy is energy that can be produced without depletion. Human have been using a form of renewable energy for hundreds of years, such as the watermill. Renewable energy

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    obtaining the energy that is present in the environment. A number of factors including the rapidly growing demand for energy to fuel economic development, the need by countries to diversify their energy production into environmentally sustainable supply sources while concurrently taking into careful consideration climate change, energy security and economic factors have all served to greatly contribute towards the current accelerated private and public investment in renewable energy. While numerous

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    Renewable energy, what is it ? To put it simply, it’s a type of energy source that is eco-friendly and for the most part efficient. Fossil fuels such as gasoline, oil, methane gas, and other harmful energy sources will only aggravate earth's health and will inevitably affect our biosphere and atmosphere, in which we humans reside. There is nothing inherently wrong with this issue but can seriously be spoken more and enforced upon society, for the sake of humanity. It will take centuries before we

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    Renewable energy is the key to ensuring that humanity has a prosperous future here on Earth. Renewable energy is energy that can be gathered from renewable sources, which can be naturally replenished faster than it can be consumed, such as, sunlight, wind, geothermal heat, and biofuels. Currently, burning fossil fuels is the primary method countries rely on to produce energy and create electricity and power. Over many years of transporting and burning fossil fuels Earth’s environment has begun to

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    Renewable energy By Jonah Arnott What is renewable energy? Renewable energy is produced using natural resources that constantly replaced and never run out. Types of renewable energy Sunlight, wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat are all the examples of renewable energy. Benefits of renewable energy. One of the benefits of renewable energy is that it is naturally occurring so does not harm the environment and also that it doesn’t run out. Another benefit is that it is generally it is cheaper

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