Essays on Solar Power

Are Solar Roadways Viable Technologies for the Future?

Solar roadway refers to road surfaces that are capable of generating electricity through photovoltaic solar power cells (Aggrawal, Mehta and Tiwari 161). One of the existing proposals involves the use of panels that encompass LED signage as well as solar panels that vehicles can be driven on. It is a concept that requires the replacement of roads, highways, sidewalks, driveways, and parking lots with the panels. The layers embedded with LED can be utilized for creating crosswalks and traffic warnings (Hartwig 1). Extra electricity can be used for charging electric vehicles or can be routed into the power grid. ...

Introduction

The increasing use of electronic devices like mobiles and laptop has necessitated the constant supply of power. A power bank is increasingly becoming a ‘must have’ for people on the move. Kazam Mobile, the startup mobile company has come up with its Kazam Power Bank (KPB) which can power the batteries in use in mobiles and laptops. This report starts with the corporate objectives of Kazam. This is followed by a market overview of the power bank market in the UK. An internal and external audit of the market would be presented thereafter. The assumptions for the power bank ...

Business Sustainability in the Middle East – How Solar Energy Use can be Effectively Commercialized in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East

Abstract

The objective of this paper was to study this option from the perspective of the United Arab Emirates and Middle Eastern Countries. This paper is a proposal for a qualitative exploratory research that aims to identify both the challenges and opportunities in relation to solar power generation and commercialization, and the introduction of sustainability management methods and strategies in the UAE and the Middle East. The target population would be the people working in power generation ...

Introduction

As the need for energy conservation and preservation of the environment becomes more popular, many countries and firms are now utilizing renewable energy in order to generate power. Renewable energy, also known as green energy, is defined as the energy that comes from natural resources which can be replenished constantly, such as sunlight, tides, wind, biomass, and geothermal heat. Because the sources of this energy can be constantly renewed, it can be said that this type of energy cannot be exhausted completely (Ciolkosz).

Why Use Renewable Energy Sources?

There are many advantages in using renewable energy. First off, renewable energy is environmentally sustainable. Unlike ...

On a daily basis, I use energy to watch television, listen to music, cook, take a hot shower, and warm the house. All these activities involve the use of energy, thereby making it a fundamental part of our daily lives. The sources of energy that I use include electricity, solar power, and natural gas. Renewable energy encompasses energy that is generated from resources that can be replenished naturally such as rain, sun, wind and geothermal heat (Hansen, 2014). Renewable energy sources provide energy that can be used in the generation of electricity, water and air cooling or heating, home ...

Solar energy harnessing through the use of solar panels installed in small homes presents better alternative to the hydroelectric provided through the national grid. While the use of solar panels may provide several advantages over the use of hydroelectricity, its usage presents several pitfalls to the user. It is imperative to investigate and outline the possible costs and advantages associated with the use of solar panels as a source of harnessing solar energy before installation is started. In most cases, the decisions concerning the installation of solar panels as the primary source of electricity are normally based on the ...

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Executive Summary SunEdison is a renewable energy company. Its revenue comes from semiconductor wafer manufacturing, solar energy business and TerraForm Power (wind power and global business). The company has recently filed for bankruptcy due to poor operational performance and its inability to serve its $11 billion debt. Luckily for the company, first and second lien holders have provided the required capital to continue operation. Overall, the renewable energy market is growing at a very high rate. However, due ...

A Summary of

The reviews on Africa’s solar based enterprises are quite recent and cover a majority of related topics. He has reviewed the factors that provided an impetus to solar power based enterprises and the existing opportunities. However, the need for some more reviews on the reasons addressing slow development in the field is evident. Nevertheless, it is successful in drawing the readers’ attention on the gaps existing in the current review of scholarly works. The three basic research questions raised in the study clearly underline its problems and the purpose. Through these questions the author seeks to address the ...

Nowadays people try to find innovative sources for energy in order to provide the planet with everything necessary for its development. This way, renewable energy resources are of great value. This paper is to analyze solar power, its advantages and disadvantages along with the impact it carries to this planet. Solar energy is the energy taken from the Sun, which is often used as electricity or heat through a photovoltaic process (“Solar Energy”). This kind of energy is renewable and can easily be used for our needs. Thermal and photovoltaic systems are used to convert solar radiation to heat ...

If you pay attention to too much of the mass media, you might think that renewable energy is a pipe dream proposed to solve a nonexistent problem. After all, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, sat down with the editorial board of the Washington Post back in March and told them, “If you look, they had global cooling in the 1920s and now they have global warming, although now they don’t know if they have global warming” (Leber & Aldern 2016, web). Trump has even gone so far as to ...

Introduction

The concept of sustainable development was first introduced in 1987 by the United Nations as part of the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, in which it was stated that sustainable development implies “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (United Nations General Assembly, 1987). The World Conservation Strategy published in 1980 served as prelude to the conception of this notion, as the UN recognized the importance of minimizing the impact of human activity over the earth’s ecosystems and adopting models inclined towards sustainability ...

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment

Source: IRENA (2016)

Renewable Energy Capacity Country Data

The primary sources of renewable energy for each of the three countries are indicated as follows; Argentina- hydropower Bolivia- hydropower Chile- hydropower In Bolivia, solid biomass had the greatest increase in the generation capacity compared to the other sources of renewable energy. The capacity increase from 16 in 2006 to 52 in 2015. In Chile, there was significant increase in the generation capacity of almost all the energy sources. However, hydropower showed the largest increase in the energy generation capacity between the year 2006 and 2015. The capacity increased from 5093 to 6320 between the years.

Policies to Support Renewable Energy

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Solar Energy

Solar Energy Background What can be more useful for humanity if not an unlimited power source, which we can use without any harm to the environment? Probably nothing, but solar power. Humanity has always tried to conquer the unlimited power of the sun – the history of solar technology dates back to the 7th Century B.C. and continues to this day. In the beginning, we tried to concentrate the sun’s heat by using glass, mirrors or other devices to light fires. From those times, we greatly progressed, but still we did not conquer this magnificent source of power. Why ...

A Fossil fuel power station is a plant location where fossil fuels are burned producing electricity. Such fossil fuels include petroleum, natural gas, and coal. There are power plants which are designed for continuous operations for large scale purposes called central station fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel plants in many countries are used in the provision of electricity. They have machines for conversion of heat energy from combustion of fossil fuels into mechanical energy that operates an electrical generator producing electric currents (Camus et al. 154). The Samso Island is planning to exhaust the application of fossil fuels ...

Since the industrial revolution – an era known for the peak of coal combustion to supply the energy requirements of mechanically evolving world – humankind has been relying on fossil fuels for the majority of energy. However, although the fossil fuel production is at the point of exhaustion, the world, in general, still is experiencing energy shortages, which is almost always associated with high energy prices (Pimentel 1). Furthermore, environmentalists advocate for cleaner energy source, such as the renewable energy sources, as an alternative to fossil fuel due to the fact that the fossil fuel itself, as well as the production ...

Methods

The search or an alternative source of energy is needed due to the increasing populations of the world, higher demand in electricity and the depletion of the resources of the Earth. The whole scope of the available solutions was available through the study of journals, scientific magazines, online articles and periodicals, and books on the topic of applying alternative sources of energy so as to find the best possible solution In view of the global warming problem, this issue has been extensively studied by many scientists. I will utilize their vision on some available alternatives.

This is needed in order to determine which solution will best mitigate and facilitate the solution to the problem.

In order to determine ...

ENGL 303-005: Technical Writing

Feasibility Study on Solutions to efficiently power an electrical vehicle Abstract “Feasibility Study on Solutions to Efficiently Power and Charge Electrical Vehicles” The future of electric vehicles needs to shift toward the use of solar charging stations which can increase the feasibility of electric vehicles outside of urban areas. The solar powered charging stations can revolutionize the way the world views vehicles powered by renewable energy sources. These solar stations can be placed in rural areas which can allow the drivers to store and charge their vehicle, which will minimize the prevalence of vehicles being stranded without access to ...

Results and Discussions

As mentioned in the research strategy section of this paper, a combination of quantitative and quantitative data was utilized during the study’s implementation phase in an effort to systematically answer the research question. The main research question basically asks whether it is feasible to establish solar energy as a main source of energy for majority of Saudi Arabian households by the year 2020. The expected answer to this question is a yes, as defined by the perceptions of the individual households in the country and the projections and expert opinions of a professional working in the energy industry ...

Use of Fossil Fuels for Power Generation and the Need for Renewable Energy

According to Nelson (2011), more than 85% of the world’s energy consumption, which is estimated at 520 exajoules, is generated through the burning of fossil fuels such as petroleum, natural gas and coal (p.19). Electric power generation from non-renewable sources will, unequivocally, result in their exhaustion and creation of a major energy crisis. For this reason, it appears primordial to shift in a greater scale to alternate power generation, such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, etc. Amongst these, Sorensen (2011) explains that though hydroelectric power does represent one of the major forms of power generation, its growth is stagnant ...

Introduction

The electricity industry is facing numerous challenges today including environmental pollution, increased demand, and aging infrastructure. Environmental issues are the primary concern of the power generation industry and have necessitated the inclusion of renewable energy sources in the generation of electricity. Renewable portfolio standard has set forth new requirements in the industry obligating electricity generation companies to generate a certain percentage of generated electricity to come from renewable sources. However, rapid integration of new energy sources on the old transmission and distribution infrastructure will cause quality, security and reliability challenges on the electric power supply. The good thing is ...

The city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, has long been revered as a beautiful and wealthy city. The tourist attraction boasts of “lush tropical landscapes implanted in its desert” and supports a local population of over 2.5 million people. In the center of its native climate, this developed city has come with some serious consequences and it is through development deficits, coupled with improper planning, that we see the most remarkable impact that this powerhouse has on the environment, society, and the world at large.

Context

Dubai is a city that seems to have it all in terms ...

Problem statement

Azerbaijan like many countries in the world is dependent on fossil fuels as a source of its energy. Being a fossil fuel rich country, fossil fuels are widely used to produce majority of the energy needed in the country. However, fossil fuels have a number of problems associated with them. They are a finite resource and human beings are using them at a much faster rate than the earth can replace them. Therefore, in the future humans will deplete all natural occurring fossil fuels (Michaelides, 2012). Furthermore, carbon compound makes up fossil fuels. This implies that burning up fossil ...

Abstract

The environmental problem has reached the level to become a global issue that needs to be addressed by all countries and steps that are already decided between nations have to be implemented at the earliest to ensure a sustainable environment for generations to come. Almost every country has assembled various organizations, media sectors and societies all over the world from the past three decades. The study investigates the major environmental issues that are currently taking place in the environment and the activities that are associated with this major problem. In particular, the report discusses environmental issues related to the ...

Internal proposal for solar and nuclear energy

The purpose of this internal proposal is to propose the use of solar and nuclear energy as the main sources of energy to generate electricity to solve the current energy problems that face individual households, industries, and organizations across the globe.

Summary

The current energy crisis existing across the world is pushing countries to come up with effective sources of energy that are cost effective and friendly to the environment. Energy shortage and blackouts cause a lot of financial problems to people and industries. These energy shortages are as a result of economic, environmental and social problems. The decrease in ...

Introduction

Modern technological trends are moving towards the application of sustainable energy resources. Sustainable energy is that which is balanced on the lines of consumption and supply (Berndes, 2003). Concerning this, the utilization of such energy sources promotes the maintenance of controllable collateral implications. Sustainable energy leads to insignificant levels of environmental degradation. Additionally, the sustainability of energy resources can be understood according to their longevity. Such sources are deemed to fulfill the needs of the present while guaranteeing their progressive benefits into the future. Sustainable development has become a mainstream topic that is addressed in various forums globally. Hitherto, ...

Solar Power Generation

Sustainable Technology – Solar Power Generation Power Generation from Fossil Fuels and Global Warming Global warming, as defined by Lineman, Do, Kim and Joo (2015), is the long-term trend of increasing average temperature of the lower atmosphere. It is widely known that this phenomenon is related to the concentration of greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, among others. Activities related to human development such as industrial processes, agriculture, cattle raising for meat consumption, transportation, deforestation and power generation are the major causes of greenhouse gases emissions. Specifically, power generation based on ...

Stand-alone Power Supply and Heating Systems

An individual’s carbon footprint is mainly decided by energy consumed to run various household appliances and energy used for home heating. Electric power supplied to grid-connected households is mostly derived from fossil fuels, and thus leads to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, homes in remote areas cannot afford grid power supply, and they use renewable natural sources available to them such as solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power or geothermal energy. Even, houses that can be connected to the power grid can opt for stand-alone power systems to reduce GHG emissions. Most common form of off-grid power system ...

            The generation of electric power through the exploitation of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas, is one of the main factors influencing climate change due to the greenhouse gases emissions resulting from the process. In consideration, there is an increasing need to shift towards systems of power generation derived from renewable sources, which have a significantly lower environmental impact; among these are solar, wind, geothermal, hydraulic and ocean power generation. This essay will focus on solar power generation. The energy contained in sunlight can be converted into electricity through the use of Concentrated Solar Power systems ( ...

Introduction:

Historically, photovoltaic (PV) market in this country was dominated by residential PV application (Ted 23). Among the revolutions made by the then government of Japan was to invent and promote other renewable sources of energy (Paxson 201). This paradigm shift by the Japanese government has been motivated by the craving to put some environmental factors in check. Also, the energy demand not only in Japan but also all over the world has increased. This has reached a level where the existing energy sources are unable to meet the current market demand. This paper seek to address various concerns of ...

Introduction

There has been a growing need worldwide for alternative energy solutions to that of the traditional fossil fuel and mined coal. The need for sustainable renewable power sources can be attributed to the growing concern over the state of the area in which we live. Global warming is fast becoming the modern time's biggest threat to human life. Solar energy is one of the best answers to the energy problem that the world is currently facing. Solar power harnesses the energy from the ultraviolet rays emitted by the sun and converts it into electric energy. The determinants of the ...

Solar Energy

What can be more useful for humanity if not unlimited power source, which we can use without any harm to the environment? Probably, nothing, but the solar power. Humanity has always tried to conquer the unlimited power of Sun – history of solar technology comes from the 7th Century B.C. to nowadays. In the beginning, we tried to concentrate the sun’s heat by using glass, mirrors or some other devices to light fires. From those times, we went far away, but still we did not conquer this magnificent source of power. Why do we should develop solar power technologies? ...

Re: extended definition of solar power and nuclear power

Purpose This memo is an extended definition of solar power and nuclear power as sources of energy. Introduction Solar power is energy from the sun. This energy is harnessed by collecting sunlight and converting it to electricity (Winter et al. 4). The cells found in the solar panels make this conversion possible. The conversion of sunlight to electricity can either be done indirectly by the use of a concentrated solar panel or directly by use of the photovoltaic cell. Nuclear power, on the other hand, utilizes nuclear reactions to produce nuclear energy (Murray 495). This energy is found in ...

Environment

Johnson & Johnson, the famous health care corporate started as a humble, family owned business in New Jersey, U.S. in the year 1886 (Johnson & Johnson Services Inc., 2016). Between 1886 and 1910, the company manufactured mostly first aid kits, surgical aids, antiseptic products, sanitary aids and maternity kids that were very useful in improving the standard of public health care. Soon, Johnson & Johnson expanded overseas to UK, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil. From 1954 to 1989, the company revolutionized the pharmaceutical market with its huge range of baby-care and wound-care products, and further expanded to India, China, Russia ...

According to the data collected in 2013, the world energy consumption was segregated into various power sources such as 31.1% from oil reserves, 28.9% from coals, 21.4% from natural gases, 10.2% from biomass and wastes, 4.8% from nuclear sources, 2.4% from hydro energy and remaining 1.2% from other renewable sources. The most common form of energy used in industrial and household purpose was oil, coal and natural gas (Lawton, 2014). These resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas are natural reserves which are depleting due to extensive extraction over time. Coal is one of the most burned and ...

Elimination of Subsidies for all Energy Alternatives

I agree with the proposal to eliminate government subsidies for all energy alternatives so that all energy providers can compete in a free market economy. My rationale for agreeing with this proposal is that providing subsidies is a retrogressive economic policy that allows the government to prop one sector of the energy industry at the expense of other sectors. Rather than foster competition, government subsidies will give alternative energy investors unfair price advantages over other energy providers. Moreover, subsidies will cause the alternative energy sector to become less cost competitive and encourage unhealthy dependency on preferential treatment from the ...

Institutions Affiliation

1. The Frog Leap Winery is wine made in California, a state in the United States operating from the Nepal's Rutherford region; the Californian wine producer founded in 1981 on a spot in line with Mills Creek that is known to be Frog Farm. The Frogs Leap Winery was established by Larry Turley and John Williams. The approach to winemaking process makes the company more humorous. William together with his friend Turley had the opportunity which enabled them to make 5 gallons of wine having borrowed some grapes. The information prevalences indicate that the Frog's Leap winery has been ...

This paper presents a critique of three stories posted in living on earth website as one if their featured programs. The stories selected for this paper include; India’s solar power plan, pollination in trouble worldwide and sustainable coffee keeps the planet in the black. “India's solar power plan limped by the U.S." There are some provisions in the India’s National Solar Mission that were found to defy rules that guide international trade. The provisions were discovered by the World Trade Organization after a complaint filed by the U.S. This feature story demonstrates how the ruling by the ...

This is one of the most common sources of renewable energy used in the United States. The first hydro-electric power plant was commission in 1882 in Wisconsin in the United States. In 1940 about forty percent of energy that was used in the United States was generated from hydro-electric power (Hydroelectric Power Water Use). Currently, about 50 percent of hydro-electric power used in the United States is mainly concentrated in major cities such as New York, California, Oregon and Washington among others (Hydroelectric Power Water Use).

Alternative Renewable Energy Source to Hydro-Electric Power: Solar Energy

Solar Energy is another alternative renewable energy that can be used to substitute ...

The use of solar energy from the sun as an alternative source of energy from fossil fuel, hydroelectric power, nuclear, and many other sources has increased in demand. The sun produces a lot of energy necessary to power the whole world, but humans use only a fraction, about 1 percent compared to electricity power with 39 percent and natural gasses with 54 percent. The following essay compares and contrasts approaches used by two articles investigating the development of solar collecting cells. These articles are “Solar photovoltaic electricity: Current status and prospects” by T. M. Razykov with others and “Perovskites: ...

The sun contributes more energy than needed for human needs. Solar acts as the most attractive, convenient and cheap source of energy compared to other alternative sources of energy. The solar electric generation process is growing tremendously into a multi-billion dollar industry. Advancements in technology and the increasing demand for energy in the world is pushing engineers towards looking for cheaper and efficient alternative sources of energy. Additionally, the high rate of global warming is making fossil fuel as the sources of energy receive major condemnations from environmental experts. How can engineers make solar electric generation more economical and ...

The development of solar energy is based on a use of solar radiation for generation energy. Solar energy is the kinetic energy of the radiation (mainly light) formed by reactions in the solar interior. As its stocks are almost inexhaustible (astronomers counted that the Sun will “burn” some more millions of years), solar energy belongs to a renewable source of energy. In natural ecosystems, only a small part of the solar energy is absorbed by chlorophyll that contains in the leaves of plants and is used for photosynthesis, namely for the formation of organic matter from carbon dioxide and ...

The sun holds immense energy that is yet to be tapped. It is estimated that the suns energy could be able to power 1000times of the worlds desired energy needs. Methods of utilizing this energy being devised could be the solution to all our energy needs, like oil, and could be the gateway to the future. Sol-U-Go is a new automobile manufacturing company that is harnessing solar energy to power their new automobile machines. With the plummeting prices of oil and its environmental pollution, solar power presents itself as the more affordable environment safe alternative. Sol-U-Go automobile company targets ...

Introduction

The Modern Green Movement is distinguished by its actions for combating the cataclysmic consequence of climate changes, by conducting global environmental events, conservation of natural resources, preservation of the environment, and overcoming the green gas issues. The consciousness of the people has become more intense now, yet, most of the environmental issues remain unresolved. And the chemically contaminated water and foods, genetically altered seeds, and other problems are putting the daily lives in dangerous conditions. To make matters worse, most of the natural resources dwindle, while the climate change plays havoc. The Modern Green Movement is convincing people, to ...

Google has been developing many various technologies that can improve human life and make it easier and handy to use. The company has been present in the market a long time and has so far provided many interesting and useful technologies. With the evolving of sophistication of information technologies the more complex systems are being built for individual usage. Almost everyone on this planet in developed world has the access to the internet or the communication tolls that are sometimes needed in the rear to use the google technologies. The research paper will examine five Google technologies implemented or ...

History of Solar Panel windows

Human beings had always made good use of solar energy since when the earliest ancestor of man noticed that a line of sunlight was warmer than the shade and that rocks heated throughout the day by the sun continued to stay warm through the night. Ancient structures of the Romans were constructed with south-facing windows to garner in the warmth of the sun. This was passive solar heating, which is still popular today. The only new thing about passive solar heating or solar daylighting is the name (K, Sruthi et al, 25-34). All the early attempts to harvest solar ...

Introduction

Canada is among the leading nations with vast supply of low carbon energy sources. The country enjoys no and low carbon energy sources including hydropower, wind, biomass, nuclear power as well as power generated from the waves at the coastal regions. This implies that the energy supply in Canada considerably meets the demands in the community and outside the nation. Such steps make it possible to avoid reliance on the carbon emitting sources of energy that have in the recent years faced criticism from the public and regulatory agencies. However, even with the abundant supply of the no and ...

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Evolution of the Project

My project involves the development of environmentally friendly and sustainable solution to supply electricity for rural and domestic use. The title is ‘Renewable Energy: Environmental-friendly Sustainable Solution.’ Solar and wind power are solutions to the problems identified since they are best for sustainable power generation with no pollution (SNERL, n.d.). The objective is to conduct a feasibility study to obtain a renewable substitute for the current electricity supply. Since TMA 01, there has been tremendous progress in m project. First of all, I wrote and submitted m proposal for review. It has since been returned with a ...

Solar power is a renewable source of energy, conversed of sunlight into electricity, directly using photovoltaics or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaics were used to power small and medium applications, from watch and calculator to off-grid homes. This is an inexpensive source of electrical energy, and according to a new Fraunhofer report, solar power in sunny regions of the world is going to be cheaper from gas or coal. For several years worldwide growth of solar photovoltaics (further PV) raised in many countries and regions all over the world, including Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Thailand. The increasing ...

Electricity has been the most important part of mankind. Since the discovery of electromagnetic induction by Michael Faraday in 1831, it came a long way in helping every activity of man. And with this, demand for electricity has gone up in recent years. A need for larger plants to produce electricity is necessary to sustain this demand. However to obtain electricity, we must harvest this from energy sources. Currently, fossil fuels have been the primary source of energy, however these are considered non-renewable and fossil fuels are being consumed rapidly in recent years. With this scare resources depleting, different sources ...

- Prospecting

The customer for product/service solar electricity is healthcare hospital as hospitals need continuous power supply for patient care and other activities.

Healthcare Hospitals

Hospitals and medical centers are complex institutions which treat thousands of patients on a monthly basis . Patients have different requirements and needs when they visit hospitals. While some need immediate attention, some are suffering from diseases, and few come for child delivery and a few others for a routine checkup. Health care hospitals are responsible for patient care and continuous power supply is critical to the functioning of hospitals. ...

Slide 1: Title Slide: The graphic was used to illustrate a Daily Telegraph article entitled “Push for solar power that could cover a hundred Olympic parks” which referred to a British government initiative to expand the country’s solar energy resource to 20GW by 2020 – representing an increase of ten times the number of solar farms either existing or planned.

Slide 2: “Two Principal Technologies”: According to Philibert (2010), photovoltaic solar cells, which use semiconductor technology to convert solar energy to electricity, have been most commonly used. However, an indirect method of harnessing the sun’s energy using concentrated solar ...

There are literally a lot of elements that hold at least a certain level of relevance in the geochemical and bio-geochemical industry or cycling. One important thing to know about these elements is that most, if not all, of them are non-renewable. Most are stored in ores found underneath the earth’s surface. What makes the process of obtaining those elements more problematic is the fact that they need to be mined, extracted, and processed before they can be deemed usable for industrial and consumerism-related purposes. These ores are abundant and this is why at this point, they are practically inexhaustible. ...

Energy storage space is accomplished by devices or physical media that store energy to perform useful procedures later. A system that stores energy is sometimes called an accumulator.

All types energy exist as either prospective energy for example substance, gravitational, power, temperature differential and hidden warm or kinetic energy basically strength (Galbraith 1). Some technological innovation offer only short-term energy storage space and others can be very long-term such as ability to gas using hydrogen or methane and the storage space of cool or warm between opposite periods in deep aquifers or foundation.

Energy storage space became a prominent aspect ...

The United States of America is said to be the largest dependent on fossil fuels by a research conducted by southeast Missouri state university’s Robert Polack. He found out that the US uses fossil fuels in almost each and every sector from food, consumer goods, transportation, energy procurement itself to heating. Basically, our economy runs on fossil fuels, but question is what if the world runs out of fossil fuels in the near future what are we going to do? The answer to this perplexing question is to venture into renewable sources of energy, which will relieve us the ...

The use of oil as an energy source has economic effects on oil producing countries. There is a high demand for more oil owing to the increasing population growth and oil prices. Attributable to the rise in oil prices, there is a sweeping revolution in the use of renewable energy in the Arab world so as to promote the use of domestic clean energy. The rise of oil prices in the Middle East has enabled the push towards the use of renewable resources. The big producing oil-rich countries in the near future will eventually exhaust their oil resources, and it is ...

Research Paper: Testing Bender and Ward Model on UK green companies

Introduction In their book, Corporate Financial Strategy, Bender and Ward proposed a new financial theory where they postulated that the gearing ratio of the company affects its market value, which is indicated in the stock prices throughout the life cycle. Accordingly, it is very important for the company to use defined funding source at each stage of life cycle to balance the financial and business risk. In the book, the authors had also described each stage of company’s product life cycle, effect of financial elements such as debt, dividend, profit, PE and risk throughout the stages of the ...

Energy recommendation

The law of conservation of energy or first law of thermodynamics states that, as long as an isolated system remains constant, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but it transforms from one form to the other (Moskowitz, 2014). Taking this phenomenon into account, and as advisor to the President of the United States regarding Federal grants for energy research, I would suggest investing in solar energy. Solar energy is available virtually everyday for several hours a day. It is freely available to all plants, animals, and human beings, and some physiologic mechanisms depend highly on it in order to ...

There is an increasing number of electric cars in the world, with the US expecting to have 1 million electric cars by the end of 2015. Arguably, it is easy to increase the number of electric cars but difficult to increase electricity generating capacity at the same rate. Generating capacity to cater for the number of electric cars. The basic problem with electric vehicles require an overnight charging to ensure the car is fully charged when owners need it to commute in the morning. Any given grid can provide a certain amount of excess electric supply which it can devote ...

Solar Power

There are the following ways of generating electricity using solar radiation: use of photovoltaic systems; hot air power - converters of solar energy into the energy of the air flow directed to the turbine generator; solar thermal energy (using the energy generated by the heating of a surface with its subsequent transformation into electrical energy in the steam generators); solar balloon power plants. Electricity produced by the steam generation in the cylinder of the balloon heated by solar radiation. The problem of extraction and processing of solar energy has long worried about the minds of ...

Energy efficiency is one of the reasons that people keep on paying their monthly bill electric bills as provides the needed electricity to sustain their needs. There are both advantages and disadvantages of personal energy independence. We may say that energy may come from different sources, but being independent from the energy itself will avoid the person from paying costly electric bills each month. Thus, if a person is independent from any sources of energy, there is also no need for him to pay for putting up a solar system. We may say that the advantages of being energy independent can ...