Problem+Research


 * What I know about my topic:**

That Renewable Energy is needed because the energy we have now is depleting from our use and is going to be gone and to have renewable energy can help to have a smaller carbon footprint and keep the energy worries away for a time to focus time and effort into different causes.

**What I need to find out about my topic:**

The ways that are being used to find these renewable sources and how they are being used in modern day society

**Search terms I can use to find information about my topic:**
 * Renewable energy
 * " " " advances
 * " " " in modern society

**Information I found today (at least 5 points):**

-wind power

-hydropower

-solar energy

-geothermal

-biofuel

Notes: Pellerin, Cheryl, Marie L. Thompson, and M. C. Nagel. "Will wind farms ever become an efficient, large-scale source of energy." //Science in Dispute//. Ed. Neil Schlager. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 76-85. //Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources//. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. http://find.galegroup.com/grnr/infomark.do?&contentSet=EBKS&idigest=8187a3c89b0767bedddefc0405757df3&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GRNR&docId=CX3411400018&source=gale&userGroupName=pl7053&version=1.0
 * 1) In the ancient times people have used wind power for many things even before Christ.
 * 2) Things such as pushing boats along their way.
 * 3) Or using the wind to spin mills to grind up grain while the wind pushed the "fan" and turned the stones.
 * 4) In China the wind was used to pump out water.
 * 5) In the beginning of the 1990s some small mills produced electricity.
 * 6) And back in 2001 wind energy was the fastest growing renewable energy source in the world.
 * 7) In the 1980s California bought a lot of wind power.
 * 8) Although wind is not always blowing.
 * 9) It can also not be found everywhere.
 * 10) Produces a lot of noise pollution.
 * 11) This is bad because people don't like to live near the noise.
 * 12) Also this is bad for birds.
 * 13) 7% of ALL renewable energy sources is used in comparison to what the U.S.A. uses from all its resources.
 * 14) Petroleum takes up 39%
 * 15) Natural Gas takes up 24%
 * 16) Of the 7% 46% of it is hydroelectric power.
 * 17) Wood is 38%
 * 18) 8% is waste ("waste wood and other biomass materials, in a catchall category of municipal solid wastes")
 * 19) 1% equals wind and solar energy

Bonitz, Jens. "Passing panels: surprisingly fragile, solar panels present special challenges for the conveyors transporting them from station to station." //Assembly// Aug. 2010: 34+. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. []
 * 1) The panels can not come in contact with each other.
 * 2) They can not collect in a pile.
 * 3) Or stop to sudden while traveling.
 * 4) They are extremely fragile and could shatter at the slightest of things into a thousand pieces.
 * 5) Individual cells are checked to make sure they are okay and are not broken
 * 6) costs sky rocket due to cracks in cells

"Burning issues: four of today's hottest energy topics." //Maclean's// 23 Aug. 2010: 65. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA235280076&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * 1) In the Canada there is good renewable resources that are not used.
 * 2) It is hard to do since transfering energy across provinces is hard to do.
 * 3) Quebec, Newfoundland, and Labrador are proposing to use Lower Churchillb hydro resources.
 * 4) Toronto sugested that they should stockpile intermittent sources underwater electrical that is compressed in air-chambers
 * 5) Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are using a line that transfers power so it mor than doubles the electrical transmission compacity between both of these provinces.

Lund, Kelly. "Hydroelectric Power." //Alberta//. 7 June 2002. Web. 30 Oct. 2011. []. []
 * 1) The first hydropower systems did not think about the environmental
 * 2) The cost in the beginning is a heafty one, but in the end they make up the money due to the low maintenance and operating costs.
 * 3) Newer hydropowered cites are harder to make because of the environmental concerns in modern times.
 * 4) Smaller hydropower systems are easier to control because the small change in the streams they run from.
 * 5) The hydropowered systems take longer to build but last longer where as other systems will only last about 25 years.
 * 6) This systems "fuel" and that of focil fuel and natural fuel is that water is free and those very depending on the market and the cost to pump things out.
 * 7) Hydropower is also made renewable by the sun.
 * 8) This system can convert 90% of the power or energy that is avalible and turn it into electricity.
 * 9) Focil fuels only can produce 60%.
 * 10) The amount of energy produced depends on the amount of water that passes through it.
 * 11) This give no pollution off.
 * 12) Different size hydropower machines produce different amounts of energy.
 * 13) It is clean and green.
 * 14) It does not contribute to air pollution.
 * 15) According to the article the hydropower goes under a great deal of examinations such as, "Water flow, water quality, water shed, management, fish passage, habitat protection, as well as the welfare and lifestyle of the local communities are taken into consideration."
 * 16) The hydropower machine produces a certain amount of energy during its life time.

Dagooc, Ehda M. "Sustainability Issues Impede Renewable Energy Power Projects." //PhilSTAR.com//. 23 Apr. 2010. Web. 30 Oct. 2011. . []
 * 1) Wind energy requires huge investments, yet dosen't have defenate results
 * 2) The Northwind facility is designed to produce more energy than it actualy is currently.
 * 3) Solar energy has a high maintenace cost.
 * 4) The Renewable Energy Act signed in 2008 allows foreign investors to invest in the Phillipines.
 * 5) According to the article, "In 2006 about 18 percent of global energy consumption came from renewable sources, 13 percent of which coming from traditional biomass, like wood-burning."