Pak mihyonInstructor JasonLevel7Apr 14, 2014Effects and Alternative on Environment through Increase Energy ConsumptionThe USA is the 4th biggest and the first developed country over the world. Fortunately, the Texas State is the energy center of the USA because it has a lot of natural resources including fossil energy. Fossil fuels are inseparable from our modern lives. The intense energy requirements for industrial production of the Industrial Revolution created a need to find fossil fuels (Smith 4). At present, we need large, rapidly increasing amounts of energy to heat and cool our houses, to illuminate the dark, and to power our appliances. We have come to rely on electricity to power in our every life in many aspects (Hengeveld 77). It is very efficient. Fossil fuels produce a significant amount of energy per unit weight. Unfortunately, fossil fuels are finite resources. Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy because it takes millions of years to form fossil fuels. Moreover, it is 4).The effects through an increase in energy consumptionIndustrialization and high technology based on consumption of energy sources have been offering enormous convenience in their all life. On the other hand, as nations became developed human requires more and more consumption of energy sources. The major energy resources, human using mostly come from fossil fuels like oil, coal, and natural gas over the world.Now, we face that three issues relate to these inevitable situations through an increase in energy consumption.One of the problem is the fact that these fossil fuels will be used up in the near future.As our fossil fuel runs out in the next twenty to thirty years, we will be rapidly losing our main source of energy-energy we relied on totally for about a century, particularly in the last fifty years, the time of massive growth in our numbers, demands, and industries (Hengeveld 76). With rapidly increasing demands for coal, it is no wonder that the reserves thought to be an abunnergy requirements, the mountains of primary waste will also be enormous- the rubble covering large areas and wasting much usable soil and natural areas, along with the groundwater underneath and in the surrounding area(Hengeveld 80). All kinds of chemical waste discharged by laboratories, factories, garden centers, and horticultural industries pollute large tracts of land and end up in the groundwater, creeks, and rivers-one large network of open sewage runoff(Hengeveld 178).Pollution from spilled industrial wastewater makes the groundwater unsuitable for drinking, or for irrigating the land. Some oil-producing countries, oil can leak out of pipelines, thus wasting large expanses of land or ocean for all forms of life for many years to come. (Hengeveld 178).Metals and other minerals and chemical emitted from the factory chimney rain down over considerable distances around coal mines and chemical plants endangering and sometimes killing wildlife(Hengeveld 179). Air pollution not only c, but it has also shortages. Solar is subject to seasonal fluctuations of light and has much wider availability in some regions than in others. The southwest region of the united states has considerable solar resources, and the great plains region has excellent wind potential, but the energy from these areas would have to be transmitted across the country if renewable energy is to provide for the needs of areas like New YorkCity or Atlanta (Smith 48). Also, even in areas having an abundance of renewable energy, natural fluctuations, like those due to weather and seasons, create the need for storage (Smith 48).WindWind power produces electricity with not polluting the environment. The power of the wind can be harnessed to produce electricity. Wind energy is captured via a turbine, which turns as the wind blows. The turbine generates mechanical or electrical energy, which can then be used for a variety of applications (Smith 15). The benefits of wind are arguable greater than those of an a nuclear reactor meltdown occurred at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania. Just seven years later, the world was horrified as it watched the aftermath of a nuclear explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Russia, which led to the release of dangerous radiation. Despite these accidents, the development of nuclear power continues the occur globally, albeit cautiously, to meet the rising world energy needs (Smith 27).The policies of energy in the USAWe can’t have an energy strategy for the last century that traps us in the past. We need an energy strategy for the future – an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy.” - President Barack Obama, March 15, 2012 (Whitehouse.gov).Fig. 1. Whitehouse.gov 13 Apr 2014Provide Consumers with Choices to Reduce Costs and Save EnergyVolatile gasoline prices reinforce the need for innovation that will help consumers save money and protect the environment by driving more advanced T 16
effects and alternative on environment through an increase of energy consumption
