http://solarenergyenews.com/is-solarnuclear-or-wind-power-renwable-or-non-renewable-resources-explain/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:59:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://solarenergyenews.com/is-solarnuclear-or-wind-power-renwable-or-non-renewable-resources-explain/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Meredith Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:06:39 +0000 http://solarenergyenews.com/is-solarnuclear-or-wind-power-renwable-or-non-renewable-resources-explain/#comment-74 Solar=renewable. Look outside, there's TONS of sunlight every day. The earth utilizes only about 8% (I think. Maybe it's less.) of the sun's light shown on the earth. Most of it actually is reflected back towards the sun because of the ozone layer. Most of it falls on water or man made structures which aren't photosynthetic or solar powered. Nuclear power=Non renewable, but it provides so much energy from so little material, that's hardly an issue. The issue is the meltdown factors. Nuclear power works by boiling water. There are two pipes, one with lots of pressurized water that passes by the reactors where nuclear fission is taking place. That pipe passes by another pipe of fresh cool water that often comes from a spring source. The first pipe boils the water in the second pipe which is the fresh water which turns into steam which turns turbines and creates energy. If there is a crack in the pressurized water which cools the reactors, the operators can't just shut down the plant because if they turn off the reactors, they still keep producing LOTS of heat because they can't stop fission instantaneously. If the water leaks out and there's a full meltdown, the radioactive material will melt everything and continue going down and down into the earth killing everything in it's path and making everything around the plant uninhabitable for a VERY long time until it finally stops reacting and cools down. Nuclear fission is a pretty stable process, but the safety regulations need to be figured out a bit more in detail. Another issue is what to do with the radioactive material after it is used up, that is why nuclear fission is nonrenewable. Wind power is renewable. The turbines are turned by wind which is a renewable resource because wind is created by pressure being pushed on the atmosphere. Solar=renewable. Look outside, there’s TONS of sunlight every day. The earth utilizes only about 8% (I think. Maybe it’s less.) of the sun’s light shown on the earth. Most of it actually is reflected back towards the sun because of the ozone layer. Most of it falls on water or man made structures which aren’t photosynthetic or solar powered.
Nuclear power=Non renewable, but it provides so much energy from so little material, that’s hardly an issue. The issue is the meltdown factors. Nuclear power works by boiling water. There are two pipes, one with lots of pressurized water that passes by the reactors where nuclear fission is taking place. That pipe passes by another pipe of fresh cool water that often comes from a spring source. The first pipe boils the water in the second pipe which is the fresh water which turns into steam which turns turbines and creates energy. If there is a crack in the pressurized water which cools the reactors, the operators can’t just shut down the plant because if they turn off the reactors, they still keep producing LOTS of heat because they can’t stop fission instantaneously. If the water leaks out and there’s a full meltdown, the radioactive material will melt everything and continue going down and down into the earth killing everything in it’s path and making everything around the plant uninhabitable for a VERY long time until it finally stops reacting and cools down. Nuclear fission is a pretty stable process, but the safety regulations need to be figured out a bit more in detail. Another issue is what to do with the radioactive material after it is used up, that is why nuclear fission is nonrenewable.
Wind power is renewable. The turbines are turned by wind which is a renewable resource because wind is created by pressure being pushed on the atmosphere.

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