Essays on Alternative Energy
Introduction The international community has turned its focus on Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon. Iran has been reported to have been building nuclear weapons despite the fact that it is among the nations that have signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. However, Iran continues to maintain that its nuclear program is benign and that […]
Naomi Klein minces no words in confronting the corporate structure that purports to be fighting for the conservation of the environment while it does the bare minimal in curbing pollution. These organizations, ‘Big Green Movements’ partner with the polluting companies and states in very questionable working relationships that do not work to reduce emissions in […]
Introduction Biomass can be described as an organic substance resulting from past living organisms or living organisms. It is mostly used as an energy source that entails plant-based constituents that are not edible in what is commonly referred to as lignocellulose biomassendnoteRef:1. As an energy source, one can use it directly or indirectly through combustion […]
Introduction The evolution of energy use runs back to the period when human beings learnt to make fire for cooking and manufacturing primitive implements. Many years later the principle of sail was discovered by Egyptians, where water was used as form of energy. Throughout history, ways of taking various sources of energy and using them […]
Introduction Alternative sources of energy refer to all those sources in which fossil fuel is not consumed. In addition to being friendly to the environment, these energy sources are readily available (Michaelides 7). Some of the alternative energy sources being used today include solar, wind, geothermal and energy. These sources help conserve the environment due […]
The word at large is being faced with a major problem of drastic climatic changes. This in turn, has resulted in the migration of people from the regions where these climatic changes are unavoidable. By saying that some of these climatic changes are inevitable we mean that humans can do very little to curb them. […]
Introduction Unlike non-renewable sources of energy, renewable sources of energy are the type o energy which is obtained from resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale, for example, wind, waves, sunlight, tides and geothermal heat (Michaelides, 2012). Most of the renewable energy is obtained directly or indirectly from the sun. The sun’s heat […]
