Tag: electricity
member name: Alexsandralyn S.
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August 07, 2008 07:28 AM EDT --
Wind power has become a reality. In May, T. Boone Pickens announced a deal with GE to build a 1 gigawatt wind farm in Texas. GE is the leading producer of wind turbines in the United States. Advances . . .
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August 07, 2008 12:18 AM EDT --
Solar energy refers to using sunlight to create electricity directly from photovoltaic cells, or to create electricity indirectly by using sunlight and mirrors to heat water to make steam to . . .
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August 07, 2008 07:59 AM EDT --
Burning coal in power plants to create electricity is the least expensive form of energy production in the United States, currently about 5 cents per kwh. However, burning coal releases carbon dioxide . . .
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August 07, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
The idea of geothermal energy is to shoot cold water down to hot rocks beneath the earth's surface, which will then steam back upwards to power steam turbines to create electricity. In the volcanic . . .
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August 09, 2008 01:47 AM EDT --
In an earlier article, Burning Coal for Energy: Cheap, abundant and pollutive , I stated that I was not happy with the idea of capturing and burying CO2 emissions from coal-fired plants, . . .
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