How will using electricity as our form of energy effect the environment?
Maybe water currents slow greatly, or wind will increase as a responds, or sun heat will be greatly absorb allowing low temperatures. Call me crazy it just seems no way to cheat nature.
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Electricity is a natural force and nature is a very large and powerful force as can be seen in lightning.
There is more than enough natural forces solar,waves and the sun for us all to live very comfortably off...
A large part of renewable energy construction is the estimation of the local environmental impacts...
Large Hydros and dams often destroy the local river and environment.
How ever micro hydros dont affect the local environment...
You are right in a sense but I doubt winds will increase at all even noticibly, or decrease, as a result of us harnessing a bit of it
Same with dams, same with solar...
Also there are always health issues around electricity and E.M.F forces from electricity... This can have a range of effects and reactions.
It is estimated 5% of the population are allergic to E.M.F forces.
It is all just a political ball game and no-one wants to admit how much of a precious source electricity actually is and our age of abundance of oil is over.
Check out this documenty on you tube its is done buy the head climitologist at MIT, and the head of the IPCC. Its called the The great global warming swindal. It seperates fact from popular held myths of Global warming. its 8 parts or about a hour long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxc9h5jsy...
When electricity is generated through non-renewable sources it is just as bad as any other energy source.
By generating electricity through renewable methods such as those you listed, it will have little emissions. Using waves or solar or wind, has very limited damage to the environment aside from direct ones such as destruction of habitats; and barely any emissions.
Nuclear power as a form of electricity generation also has very small amount of emissions.
You can't cheat nature, but by using solar or wind power the damage is limited.
No, and here's why.
First, the energy we need is a tiny, tiny fraction of the energy coming to earth from the sun.
Second, our use has no effect on the thermodynamic equation.
So you have a solar panel on your roof to run your PC. Without the solar panel, your roof would just get warmer which means your house would get warmer. With the solar panel, you make electricity, which runs your PC, which leaves your PC as ... you guessed it. Heat.
Which causes your house to get warmer! Exact same outcome, except we got to surf the Web.
It all depends on how the electricity is produced. If you use coal, oil or gas it will still unbalance earth. The only difference is that with coal you cannot run a computer, with electricity made with coal you can. But those ways you mention (solar/sun is the same) DO NOT affect the balance of earth. They are CO2 neutral. Using them is not cheating nature.
We cheat nature when we burn oil, coal or gas. Why that is so? When plants grow, they take CO2 from the atmosphere, use the C for themselves and give the O2 back in the air. When, say, wood is burnt, the C and the O2 are united again. Both CO and CO2 are produced. Now coal, oil and gas contain the C of plants that have grown during millions of years (and have at their time set free O2). Burning all that in a few hundred years MUST unbalance the earth!
Any kind of electricity produced with natural powers is energy borrowed for a short time before it returns into space, as it would have anyway. But the more CO2 is in the atmosphere, the smaller is the part of natural energy that can leave earth again.
Whether electricity produces dangerous rays or not is another question.
It takes energy and materials to create solar panels, windmills, and other energy savers, so they do come at an envirmental cost, but they are usually better than the alternative.
ALL energy [other than nuclear] is solar. Coal and oil simply use energy stored long ago, which is why it alters the current balance. Electricity is not a true energy source, it is a conduit. It needs to be generated at the time of use. Gathering that energy using solar cells, wind turbines, waterfalls, and geothermal sources IS neutral, or balanced. That's why we need to go to those systems.
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