Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

How does Solar Energy Work?

• Materials from living things can be broken down and used as energy.

• Wind turbines and windmills turn and convert wind into electricity.

• Sunlight is collected by solar panels and converted into electricity.

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How does Hydropower work?

• Water from a reservoir is released through a dam to spin a turbine connected to a generator to create electricity.

• Wind turbines and windmills turn and convert wind into electricity.

• Energy from ocean waves and tides are collected and converted into electricity.

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Geothermal Energy is not available everywhere and is extremely expensive.

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Solar Panels are expensive.

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How does Wind Energy work?

• Energy from ocean waves and tides are collected and converted into electricity.

• Wind turbines and windmills turn and convert wind into electricity.

• Heat from the inner core of the Earth creates steam to make electricity.

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Hydroelectric Power controls flooding.

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How does Hydroelectric Energy work?

• Energy from ocean waves and tides are collected and converted into electricity.

• Water from a reservoir is released through a dam to spin a turbine connected to a generator to create electricity.

• Sunlight is collected by solar panels and converted into electricity.

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How does Natural Gas Energy work?

• Oil rigs drill into the earth and collect the oil to refine into gasoline.

• Atoms are split and energy is released.

• Rocks are split apart by fracking.

Biofuel does not generate a lot of energy.

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Hydropower can disrupt ocean life and habitat.

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