Solar Panels:
Solar panels are another common source of renewable energy. Solar panels convert light energy from the sun in to electricity. This generated electricity can power your business, home, or farm.12 solar panels will produce 120 volts which is what most house hold appliances run off. The amount of electricity a solar panel produces depends on how much sunlight it gets and how big the solar panel is.
An 18v solar panel with 2.5 amps which had had 5 hours of sunlight would produce 315kwh. 10kwh can power a light bulb for 1 hour. Each kilowatt hour produced saves around 0.54 kg of carbon dioxide emissions. Each solar panel costs around £5000. The government will give you 43.3p per kwh for any unused electricity that has been generated and then will be put into the national grid. My opinion I don’t think that this is an answer to everyone’s problem. Not everyone will be staying in the same house long enough to start making back their money. Also they will put most people in huge debt because most people need around 12 solar panels which cost around £5000 each.
Nuclear power:
Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 14% of the world's electricity. In 2007, The International Atomic Energy Agency said there were 439 nuclear power reactors in the world, operating in 31 countries. There is an ongoing debate about the use of nuclear energy because nuclear power is a sustainable energy source that reduces carbon emittion’s but others say it’s a danger to people/animals and the environment. There have been a few disasters with nuclear power plants e.g. Chernobyl, Fukushima that has killed lots of people. When a nuclear power plant bursts or gets hit by nature e.g. Hurricane, Earthquake or a Tornado.
I don’t think that they should build another nuclear power plant in Anglesey because if it goes wrong when building it, it would kill lots of people or people would lose their homes. We should start to find a way how to dispose of the toxic waste that is left when burning fossil fuels.
Tidal power plan:
A new project has been unveiled to build one of the world’s first tidal power farm to be built of the shore of Anglesey. It should provide enough energy to power 6000 homes. It involves seven tidal stream turbines in 25m (82ft) deep water, two miles of the coast of Anglesey, around seven miles north from Holyhead. Each under water turbine is capable of generating 1.5 megawatts of power using the power off the waves flowing through. They say if the planning permission for the project goes ahead N-power say that they will hope to have it done by 2012. Its costs roughly £500k each turbine and there are 7 in each farm. I think this is a much better way of making electricity because you don’t see be huge white turbines sticking out of the ground also it isn’t toxic nor harmful to the environment.
School wants to make its own electricity:
A primary school in Gwynedd is looking to make its own electricity, after an idea from pupils themselves. The plans are to make their own electricity by installing solar panels. They were going to build a wind turbine but the town mayor went against that idea because of safety reasons, but went along with the solar panels. The school has not been a eco-friendly school for long. The children had noticed that they using a lot of electricity everyday so they wanted to help save money. They then found out that they could produce around 55% of their electricity that they use in a year, which is around £1000.
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