Essays Tagged: "Non-renewable resource"

Energy Sources: Electricity and its Environmental Effects

ch a way that is seriously damaging to the environment.Oddly enough some of the most commonly used, non-renewable energy sources received their energy in its purest form, as sunlight. Oil, coal, and n ... volved after every death, that is they feed off the others. This means that the true source of most non-renewable energy is one of the most notable renewable sources.All these non-renewable energy sou ...

(6 pages) 117 0 4.7 Dec/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Sustainable City

going to run out of oil in 40 years and coal in 75-150 years. People were using these effective but non-renewable energy sources as much as they wanted for many centuries without thinking that these r ... his program envisions that "using renewable resources is encouraged and supported, while the use of non-renewable resources should be minimized." Since 1978, when the City Council adopted a "Framework ...

(6 pages) 88 0 5.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

comm 215 wk1 essay

lectricity on our planet each and every-day. There are two types of electrical power: renewable and non-renewable sources. Non-renewable sources are sources that can only be used once for power genera ... oduce a bi-product that is released into our atmosphere, some more harmful than others. Examples of non-renewable resources are coal, natural gas, large hydro, oil, and nuclear power. Renewable source ...

(4 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology