How is the use of electricity connected to climate change?

Question

How is the use of electricity connected to climate change?

Answer 1

What we use to generate it.

Answer 2

Most power plants are powered by coal or other fossil fuels which release carbon into the atmosphere much like a car.  As for hydro electricity, Dams can block rivers and flood areas destroying environments

Answer 3

well we need to use the environment to generate the power needed.

In general its turbine.

Answer 4

its not, its all a hoax

Answer 5

Really except for some political groups pretending to be scientists the only connection is preventing generating methods that do not use coal, oil or gas from being used. Wind, geothermal and ground based solar will never equal the capacity needed to sustain an advanced society. If we want to retreat in population and limit our technology then with a major population reduction they might be sufficient. We really need to go ahead with space based solar as the major energy producer because when most of our raw materials start coming from asteroid sources or lunar sources the initial processing can then take place in orbiting mills instead of ground based ones.

The very big advantage to nuclear power plants is the unique ability to throttle them from 0 to 100% with marginal warm-up time. Thus if another power source went down or its capacity was exceeded and in need of supplemental output nuclear is ideal for the job. Thus what I see for a practical future is the majority of the worlds power needs provided from space based solar with all the other sources filling in the gaps according to what is most economically feasible for different regions.

The point most people keep missing because of the Luddite anti nuke propaganda spread all over the media for more than 60 years is that there is no such thing as nuclear waste, never has been and never will be. The concept is an artificial creation in order to keep oil as a competitive part of energy production. If it had not been for the Carter anti nuke decrees oil, gas and coal usage in the world today would be about 5% of what it is now and we would not be worrying about more drilling because we would not need to. Every single major crisis we face in the world today came about from actions taken by Jimmy Carter.

Answer 6

To put a very long process short... producing electricity requires the burning of fuel. The burning of fuel produces carbon dioxides, not to mention the consumption of fuel reserves. These cause pollution and global warming over time.

Answer 7

the generation of electricity is the bigger problem. power plants emit tonnes of greenhouse gases via coal burning, various toxic wastes and other unenvironmentally friendly activity. also most appliances emit small amounts of C02.