ENERGY SORCES

SOLAR ENERGY

ADVANTAGES OF SOLAR ENERGY

• Low cost
• Renewable
• Clean
• Safe
• Used for heating, cooking, drying clothes, and removing salt from water.

DISADVANTAGES OF SOLAR ENERGY

• Harder to do near trees.
• Not much energy collected on cloudy days.
• Takes up lots of land.

WIND ENERGY

ADVANTAGES OF WIND ENERGY

• Clean
• Cheaper
• NO pollution creativity
• Renewable

DISADVANTAGES OF WIND ENERGY

• NO wind = NO electricity
• Turbines are not pretty, so they ruin a scenery.
• Can't store easily.
• Hard to move electricity long ways.

FOSSIL FUELS

ADVANTAGES OF FOSSIL FUELS

• Cheap
• Most reliable resource
• Large supplies are available

DISADVANTAGES OF FOSSIL FUELS

• Gives off gases & smoke that create pollution
• Harmful to people & animals
• One of the causes of global warming
• Non-renewable

BIOMASS ENERGY

ADVANTAGES OF BIOMASS ENERGY

• Always available
• Cheaper
• Secondary product
• Renewable
• Produces oxygen

DISADVANTAGES OF BIOMASS ENERGY

• Pollution
• Burns biomass
• Basic crop= no longer grown
• They need to update their harvesting methods
• Research is needed to reduce costs of production

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

ADVANTAGES OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

• Provides energy 24/7 all year long
• Takes up only a small amount of land
• Renewable, but heat can be removed faster than to be heated
• Clean process

DISADVANTAGES OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

• Most places dont have access to geothermal water
• Release of steam

NUCLEAR POWER ENERGY

ADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER ENERGY

• Inexhaustible resource
• More powerful than fossil fuels
• Produces NO greenhouse gases
• Nuclear power plants CAN'T become thermonuclear bombs
• People promote nuclear power

DISADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER ENERGY

• Produces a lot of waste
• Fuel= gets used up, leaving a waste product
• Waste is highly radioactive
• No where to store nuclear fuel

HYDROPOWER ENERGY

ADVANTAGES OF HYDRO POWER ENERGY

• Clean and renewable
• Cheap source of energy
• Can be stored
• Works on a large scale
• Doesn't cause pollution or global warming

DISADVANTAGES OF HYDROPOWER ENERGY

• Can still hurt the enviroment
• Building dams cost a lot of money
• Can change the course of a river, which causes it to be hard for fish to move
• Dams can lead to mudslides