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How are renewable and non-renewable energy sources diffrent?List two examples of each of these types of energy

I am glad you are interested in this question because it is important that we should reduce our reliance on non-renewable resources. Future generations will not thank us for wasting such resources.

Coal and oil are examples of non-renewable energy sources. They are fossil fuels obtained from the ground and were created millions of years ago during a phase in the earth’s development that is over. So as we use these resources less is available for the future. Furthermore burning fossil fuels creates pollution.
Solar panels and wind mills are examples of renewable resources because collecting such energy has little or no impact on its availability for the future.

But it may be worth pointing out that the term "renewable" is confusing. What we really mean is "sustainable".

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Can Someone explain the importance of the question should we use more renewable energy sources? Please

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Solar renewable energy such panels its
purpose is to save on propane fuel to warm
the home. Its a start.

What and how are renewable energy used for? Uses such as green cars, lighting and heating. Pleease help me by explaining in detail how and why it works.

Energy is simply energy – it is no colour. The green and alternative relate to how they are produced. So usually they will end up either as motive power for a vehicle or in the national grid along with all the non-green electricity made from coal. So what is it used for? The same as any other energy is used for.

I’m planning a 6 month trip to South America and need help finding places to stay. I’d like to find places that use renewable energy in cool ways, or even just have interesting things that they do to save energy.

go to BookMe. You can compare prices on all the major travel sites from one location. It’s the only way you can guarantee the best deals for the best hotels for your money online.

I recently bought a house that has a solar system installed. It’s one that feeds power into the grid.

Am I able to create REC’s? I stumbled accross some info online today, and so far it seems a confusing mess to me, It did seem to indicate that renewable energy from solar systems allows you to create REC’s which can then be sold.

Yes it’s possible, check this
www.recs.org

Why is important for ‘business’ to use renewable energy? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Do you know a company that uses renewable energy and has reduced its carbon footprint? And one that doesn’t and is considerably contributing to global warming etc

It’s important because fossil fuels are a finite resource. Global oil production is beginning to decline as old oil fields reach their peak, (the Gwhar and Cantrell giant oil fields for example,) and their production curves begin the inevitable slide downwards. Although new oil fields are being discovered, they are not very large, and for every new barrel of oil found, eight are being used at the same time.

A report from the UK Energy Research Centre published in August said that there was a ’significant risk’ that the peak of conventional oil production would happen before 2020, and that means we will soon be staring down the barrel of the ultimate oil crisis.

Some governments and corporations are waking up to this and beginning to develop alternatives to keep the worlds transport systems moving when cheap oil runs out, such as more energy efficient – or electric cars, bio fuels (which put the world’s food supply under pressure,) and hydrogen (which is too dangerous for public use at present,) but none of these is likely to make up the shortfall in time.

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Science Class Question: I had to choose four non-renewable energy resources used today, and pick one that wasnt a fossil fuel. I choose oil/petroleum, natural gad, coal and uranium

uranium is not fossil fuel and is used in nuclear power plants to produce electricity. Fossil fuels are fuels formed by natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms while silvery-white metallic chemical element.

Alright, we cannot drill, we cannot have nuclear power.

I wish I could take a leak into my car and make it run, but the technology is not there right now.
How long before we can make semi-trucks and airplanes that can run on renewable energy?

I’ve seen these vehicles with 30 batteries on them, but they can hold no more than a suitcase (if they have a trunk at all) and the waste from the batteries is more toxic than gasoline emissions. By they way, they cannot run at freeway speeds.

Most experts I’ve read are reluctant to even give a time table, since less than 1% of our total energy now comes from renewables. Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party’s Over," has this to say:

“An analysis of the current energy alternatives is not reassuring. Solar and wind are renewable, but we now get less than one percent of our national energy budget from them; rapid growth will be necessary if they are to replace even a significant fraction of the energy shortfall from post-peak oil. Nuclear power is dogged by the unsolved problem of radioactive waste disposal. Hydrogen is not an energy source at all, but an energy carrier: it takes more energy to produce a given quantity of hydrogen than the hydrogen itself will yield. Moreover, nearly all commercially produced hydrogen now comes from natural gas–whose production will peak only a few years after oil begins its historic decline.”

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I want to work on renewable energy specifically building science and renewable energy stores like sell solar VP.solar thermal,hydro,batteries,pumps,etc… but in building science I have to install those products so what should I study,which career fit better?

electrical, cuz you would build them and i think that would be more fun to discover them then install them.

*It can also mean the kind of renewable energy that is most seriously being developed.

Solar and wind, both are easy to tap into and bountiful. Read more on this topic at the Pacific Crest Transformers website. I’m sure it will be very educative.