Renewable Energy Report.

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The situation of energy production in the UK and around the globe is getting desperate. Nearly all of our energy comes from the burning of fossil fuels. Producing energy from these resources takes a severe toll on our environment, polluting our air, land and water with the emissions of sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and oxides of nitrogen. However there are alternatives, they just haven’t been accepted as ways of creating vast amounts of energy. Some of these include:

  • Solar Power
  • Hydro-Electric Power
  • Wind Power
  • Biomass

Wind turbines use the wind to turn its blades. This spins a shaft, which connects to a generator and makes electricity.

Solar power uses  (or PV) systems to directly convert sunlight into electricity using solid-state technology. All solar power generated will feed directly into FPL's grid and then into your home. During operation, PV creates no noise because it has no movable parts, and no pollution or hazardous wastes because no fuel is burned.

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Biomass is plant matter such as trees, grasses, agricultural crops or other biological material. It can be used as a solid fuel, or converted into liquid or gaseous forms, for the production of electric power, heat, or chemicals or for use in vehicles.

Hydro-Electric power uses falling water. A dam is built to trap water, usually in a valley where there is an existing lake.

Water is allowed to flow through tunnels in the dam, to turn  and thus drive generators.

These are all called renewable energy resources because they can be used again and again and will ...

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