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6 Energy Resources

Anette Aatangen
Kim Bjoerklund
Sunniva Kristensen
Herman Skogvold
Sander Vunderink
Michiel van der Werf
Debby Koopmans
Renewable Resources

Everywhere we go there is energy around us. All animals, plants, humans need it to live. Also machines need energy to be able to work, and our lives are dependent on a lot of these machines. Nowadays we can't imagine living without them. Though, if we continue using energy for these machines the way we do it now, we won't be able to use them much longer. Because this energy is running out. We're talking about electricity, which is mostly produced by three fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas. They are burned to heat up water. This produces steam, which makes a turbine move, which produces energy. This way of producing energy, causes that in the world every hour almost 1 million barrel of fossil fuels are burned, permanently. However, the stock of fossil fuels are running out. There is only enough coal in the world for another 300 years and oil and gas even for only another 50 years. This is not the only disadvantage of using these fuels. They are also causing serious damage to the environment. When they are being burned, they produce toxic gasses which appear in the form of acid rain. Some gasses also cause the greenhouse-effect. These facts are enough reasons for people to look for alternative energy resources. For instance nuclear energy. Some think this is a clean and safe alternative, but this has also disadvantages. There is also ways to use the energy from wind, water, biomass and the sun. These are durable energy sources. We are going to look deeper to each form of energy resource, and find out which ones of all of these are the best to use in our future.

Solar energy means light or heat energy that comes from the sun.
There are many ways to use solar energy, in fact every process
on earth has the sun as its starting...