Power To The People

Turbines use Wind energy to spin round blades; it can then be transformed into electrical energy. Geothermal energy works best near volcanoes because the earth is hotter there, it works by heating up big tubes that are drilled in the ground hundreds of miles down and using the heat energy from the earth to warm them up, it can then be transformed into electric energy. I will be comparing the use of energy in the U.K and Peru. Peru is in South America and uses mostly wood energy to survive, whereas the United Kingdom uses a variety of different energy and mostly it is unsustainable.

Discussion

Energy usage in Peru is very slight. Peru is an LEDC so they do not have as much money as us so they cant afford to buy a lot of electric energy .In Amazonias the men travel for miles every day to find dead wood or fallen branches to cut up and use for firewood it takes a long time and is very tiring. When they get home the women use the firewood to make the dinner. Cooking on an open wood fire is very dangerous and unhelpful; the thick black smoke pollutes the air and the fire is in a small room with lots of people inside, they breathe in the smoke often making the mucus in their nose black! And the pots and pans turn black from the smoke too, they are very hard to scrub clean. Whilst in La Pecca, another village in Peru, a new micro hydro electric plant has been fitted so now in La Pecca the adults don’t have to go to bed as early as in the past, the sun normally goes down at 7.30 pm, because they have fitted new night lights around the village and most houses have now got lights in their homes. The electric has also meant that some lucky families can watch TV in their own homes, use electrical appliances like a cooker or washing machine and the women of the village can be schooled at night whilst their children are asleep.

    The energy in Amazonian is renewable because they are the dead branches of a tree so it is sustainable. Also the ash from the wood fire can be spread on the earth because it has a lot of nutrients in it to help plants grow. The energy in La Pecca is non renewable, although it is sustainable, because it is made by water. So when it rains the big water tower fills up, but there is no ways of getting that water back once it has been transformed into electric energy, unless it works like this: -