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Is electrical energy renewable or non-rewable?

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Is electrical energy renewable or non-rewable?

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  1. You can't use the term "renewable" or "non-renewable" for energy. One of the basic principles of the law of conservation of energy states that "energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can be converted from one form to another".

    You need to speak of renewable sources of energy (note the word 'sources'). Renewable sources are water, wind, sun. Electricity that is generated from other sources (coal, oil, nuclear power) does not come from renewable sources and negatively impact the environment.


  2. Depends on how it is generated.

  3. If it was generated by hydro, solar, or wind power than it is a renewable source.  If it was generated by a nuclear reaction or burning something than no.

  4. It depends on what was the fuel source to make the electrical energy.

    You can make electricity from wind power, solar power, or crank it out by hand - - all renewable.

    You can make electricity from burning wood, coal, petroleum, natural gas... all non-rewable.

  5. It can be both.

  6. renewable; it is usually generated via water power and water is a renewable resource

  7. for me is renewable

  8. The energy of which you speak is generated through other means, one or more of wind, coal, oil, hydro, solar, nuclear and as such is not renewable in and of itself; only the method of generation can be categorized in that manner.

    None of the listed methods is "renewable"..

    Wind is a natural phenomenon

    Coal is a fossil fuel

    Oil is a fossil fuel

    Hydroelectric is a natural occurance using gravity

    Solar is extra-terrestrial but not renewable.

    Nuclear is a natural phenomenon.

    To be 'renewable', a resource must be of a nature that can be made again such as wood.  Trees are a renewable resource.

    A thumbsdown..??.. the current 'skools' apparently cannot define the difference between "renewable resource" and "natural phenomenon".  Let me make it a little more clear.

    "RENEWABLE" is something that can be remade, i.e., a tree is a renewable resource in that one can plant a seed and eventually get a tree.

    NONRENEWABLE is something that cannot be remade, i.e., coal which is a fossil fuel.  Once it is removed from the ground and burnt, it cannot be made again, at least not within our foreseeable future.

    NATURAL PHENOMENON is something like wind or gravity.

    Wind is a thermal process which is driven by the sun.  Humans cannot affect the sun in any way whatsoever, no matter what Al Gore says.  Likewise gravity is the force behind hydro-electric power. Gravity pulls water through a turbine which turns a generator which produces electricity.  Very clean, very friendly to the environment, BUT NOT RENEWABLE. Humans cannot affect gravity in any way whatsoever, no matter what Al Gore says.

    Nuclear electro-power is much like coal, dug from the ground and refined into heat-producing radioactives, it cannot be remade, at least by humans.  Nuclear is a NON-RENEWABLE resource; clean and safe, but not renewable.

    In other words, if one cannot plant a seed and get a living object, that resource is not a renewable resource.

    There. Now you have no excuse for not knowing the difference.

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