Non-Renewable Resources
From 1970 to 2000 the amount of energy consumed by the United States will be more than the rest of the United States history. Most of this energy will come from recources that we will not be able to renew. So please turn off those lights and spend less time at the computer. (Sorry, this means you should get off the internet.)
Our earth's resources, which we get energy from, fall into these three catagories: non-renewable, renewable, and nuclear. This page is dedicated to non-renewable renewable recources.
The three main non-renewable recources are coal, natrual gas, and oil. (There are also some others which we use, but are not listed.) Some people think that nuclear material is one also, but it is usually classified as an energy source of its own.
To produce electricity from non-renewable resources we simply put it on fire. It's more complicated than that, but you know the general idea.
To actually produce electricity we (1)put the resource in very well contained area, next (2) we set it on fire. Then (3) the heat turns the water to steam in pipes. (4) The steam moves through the pipes, (5) turning blades with them. (6) These blades, called turbins, turn magnets. (7)These magnets convert magnetism to electricity we can use everyday.
As you can see, we need to protect our non-renewable resources before they disappear forever. I hope you will try to conserve more electricity now.
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Coal at a Power Plant.
Here are just a few of our other web pages:
Home Page, and Author's Page
Generating of Electricity, The History of Electricity, Present-Day Electricity, Future of Electricity,
Miscellaneous Facts about Electricity, Electrical Jokes, and Editorial Page
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Our references were:
1. Energy by Robin Mckie
2. Energy And Power by Barbara Taylor
3. Beyond Oil by John Gever, Robert Kaufmann, David Skole, and Charles Vorosmarty