As our society slowly ventures away from the use of fossil fuels we face many problems on how we will efficiently run our factories, cars and other technologies without the use of fossil fuels. Since fossil fuels are nonrenewable resources they take millions of years to form and reserves are being depleted much faster than new ones are being formed. ... The sources we obtain fossil fuels from are often very dangerous and do not put a price on other natural capitals used in the process such as air and water. ... Since demand is so high for fossil fuels and supply is low or in a country that we ...

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Before the Industrial Revolution, man based most of their technology on the burning of natural gasses or fossil fuels. ... The fuel cell was much more efficient for them. ... A fuel cell has four basic parts. ... In the process of a fully functioning fuel cell, pressurized hydrogen gas enters the fuel cell on the anode side. ... To get this voltage up to a reasonable level, many separate fuel cells must be combined to form a fuel-cell stack. ...

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There are no fossil flues of any kind burned in this process, and therefore would reduce pollution by 100%. The pollution from fossil fuels is one of the main contributors to the gasses known to cause the greenhouse effect. ... So why have all of the old, fossil fuel burning power plants not already been knocked down and replaced with the energy solution for the feature? ... Geothermal energy seams, at first glance, to be a very feasible alternative to the burning fossil fuels. ...

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A major source of acid rain is from the burning of fossil fuels. ... Fuels are cleaner, pollution is decreasing with the invention of the electric car and people are now more sensible about the environment. ...

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Cars and Acid Rain On freshly painted vehicles damage to automotive paints and other coatings can happen. It is mostly on dark colored vehicles, and the only way to spot it is under fluorescent lamps. Most damages are caused by environmental fallouts, whether it is acid rain, bird dropping, poll...

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According to Effects of Pollution by Scott Forseman, pollution is defined as the addition of any substance or form of energy to the environment at a rate faster than the environment can accommodate it by dispersion, decomposition, recycling, or storage in some harmless form. In my course of research, I uncovered many forms pollution. However, the ones I included were the forms of pollution that may interfere with our present and future existence. In this paper, air, water, and land pollutions have been identified and explained, as well as the consequences of these pollutants, also some possi...

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The Virginia water resources research center analyzed 11 sources of energy such as coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil. Out of all the studied energy sources, natural gasses and fuel produced through coal gasification are the most water efficient and the least water efficient are energy sources produced by fuel ethanol and biodiesel. ... Below are some charts from Virginia's center for water research showing the amount of water used for different types of fuel: looking at the above chart on the right, the efficiency of power generation technologies are shown. ... In July 2013, TVA pu...

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What happens when too much carbon dioxide gets omitted into the Earth's atmosphere? The condition known as Global Warming occurs. Global Warming is the rising of the Earth's surface temperature due to chemicals in the atmosphere. Global Warming has many threats on the climate and even the health of ...

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Water pollution happens because of the industrial waste, sewage waste and water waste, mining activities, marine dumping, accidental oil leakage, burning of fossil fuels, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, leakage from sewer lines, global warming, radioactive waste, urban development, leakage from the landfills, animal waste and underground storage leakage. ...

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