But coal is nonrenewable and it is predicted the worlds coal reserves would be gone within the next forty to fifty years."" ... With the rate coal is being used up, along with other fossil fuels, what will the next generation of Americans use for power? ... Wind energy can even be considered a form of solar energy since the suns heat causes wind here on earth. Wind energy uses the wind for purposes like generating electricity, charging batteries, and pumping water. Large, modern wind turbines operate together in wind farms to produce electricity for utilities (U.S. ...

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With fossil fuels near depletion alternative sources for a fuel will be required. ... Such as solar energy, wind power and moving water. ... The problem with fossil fuels, other than they will eventually be gone, is that when we mine for them, we harm the environment. ... I.e.: the sun, wind and water. ... Another renewable source is using the wind power to turn turbines and create electricity. ...

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We may soon run out of some of our nonrenewable resources. These can never be replaced once gone. Some examples of nonrenewable resources are coal, oil, natural gas, and minerals. These resources were highly misused until government regulations were passed to protect them. For example, for ev...

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Due to the importance of this manner, the government and their specific institutions have the duty to impose restrictions related with the amount of carbon emitted by products and machines. ... That's the reason it is wrong to keep using fossil fuels as a unique source of energy, mainly because when fossil fuels are gone, the lack of alternatives will produce chaos in the energy industry, and without energy, the world will be incapable to carry on. ... According to what we said, alternative sources of energy such as solar and wind power have the necessary to face the problems that ...

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This system is a hybrid, which uses multiple processes starting with a high efficiency reverse osmosis (hero) followed by evaporation and crystallization. ... The benefit to using hydroelectric power is that the water resource is not consumed once the energy is collected, as is the case with other sources of energy such as coal and oil. ... Another difficulty with wide span use of hydroelectric power is that it takes strong flowing water that is not geographically available everywhere where electricity is needed. ... In July 2013, TVA purchased 1,515 megawatts of energy from eight wind far...

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