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Go Green with Home Wind Power

Most electricity is generated by coal-fired power plants. These plants belch mercury and global warming greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the air. You can go green b Read More

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Renewable Energy 101

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Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuels are the result of millions of years of heat and pressure in the Earth’s crust being exerted on fossilized remains of dead plants and animals. The production of these Read More

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Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is energy that is generated from sources that are infinite and always regenerating, such as solar, wave, hydroelectric, wind, and geothermal power. In contrast, po Read More

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Solar Power

The greatest natural source of energy on our planet comes from the sun. In just one hour the sun beams down more energy than the whole planet used in the year 2002. Solar power com Read More

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Wind Power

Wind energy is harnessed by using the kinetic motion wind creates in large wind turbines. Overall wind power only accounts for 1% of the worlds power production, but it makes up 19 Read More

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Wave Power

Wave power is a clean and renewable form of energy that generates electricity using the mechanical energy produced by the motion of waves. One of the ways people harness wave power Read More

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Geothermal Power

Geothermal power is a result of using the heat trapped beneath the Earth's crust as a source of energy. It is nearly a sustainable process, because the amount of heat used is very Read More

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity comes from harnessing the flow of moving bodies of water such as rivers. These rivers and dammed, and the force of the water rushing through the dam turns enormous Read More