Renewable resources
Capturing the ___ energy, and converting it into electricity.
Sun
Burned under pressure to heat water and produce hot exhaust gases which spins a Combustion turbine to generate electricity.
Crude oil
Crude oil
Petroleum
Must be formed within the Earth
Naturally occuring
Silicates
Quartz
An energy that is used to generate electricity through turbines
Wind energy
electricity from a steam generation unit. utilizes a system of boilers which produces steam.
Natural gas
Geothermal energy
Hot springs
Must be made with materials that do not contain carbon or carbon hydrogen bonds
Chemically inorganic
Carbonates
calcites
By placing equipment on the surface of the oceans it captures movement and produces electricity, which is called?
Wave energy
coal
Metals
Aluminum
Minerals that are solid within the temp ranges on earths surface
Oxides
Magnetite
Heat within the Earth is pumped up as steam, after it is decompressed it spins a turbine to create electricity
Geothermal energy
The free movement of electrons can produce an electric current through it.
Metals
Natural gases
Carbon dioxide
Minerals made up of two or more elements composed of one atom
Definite chemical composition
sulfides and sulfates
Pyrite
Plants produce it through photosynthesis, it can be burned directly for heat or converted to renewable liquid, gases, and fuels through many processes.
Biomass
In a power plant atoms are split to release energy and generate electricity, this is done using a series of machines
Nuclear energy
Biomass
wood
When magma emerges from earths surface and cools on the surface
crystallization from magma
Halides