Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

ENERGY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Atmospheric pollution and warm water from the cooling system
    - - Danger of radiation
    - - Change the river ecosystem
    - - Sound impact, visual impact and dangerous for birds
    - - It can cover large areas of ecosystems
    - - Benefitial impact if it is used correctly
    - - Environmental changes in the ocean
  - - - Fuel extraction processes can be harmful to the environment, one example is timber extraction, that has led to the dissappearance of large areas of forest
    - - Oil pipelines can suffer accidents that make spills
      - Oil tankers can have accidents, this accidents can cause oil slicks that are very bad for the sea animals
  - - - Produce air pollution
      - Emit carbon dioxide, that increases the climate change
      - Emit gases that can cause acid rain. Acid rain is verv harmful to the environment and to stone buildings
      - The water used in the cooling system is returned to the environment although it is hot, this causes a lot of problems in animals and plants that live in water
    - - Nuclear power plants can have accidents that can be very dangerous for people and for the environnment
      - Nuclear power plants also produce nuclear waste, that is also dangerous
    - - Large hydroelectric power plants can change the natural cycle of rivers or flood large areas
      - They also increase the risk of accidents
    - - Fuels emits gases that are very similar to the gases that are generated by conventional thermal power plants
  - - - Install special filters on the pipes of the plant, the filters will capture some of the gas pollutants
      - Use coal with less sulphur content, to reduce acid rain
      - Having big areas of forest, because trees absorb carbon dioxide
- - - - Heating systems, heat for cooking, heat for transport...
    - - Construction, the operating of factories and companies...
  - - - Non-renewable
        
        Cannot be renewed in a short period of time
      - Renewable
        
        Abundant and inexhaustible
    - - Secondary
        
        Resulting from transformation of primary sources
      - Primary
        
        Obtained directly from nature. One example is natural gas
    - - Non-conventional
        
        Alternative energy sources that are used in early stages of technological development
      - Conventional
        
        Most commonly used in industrialised countries. One example is the energy that comes from fossil fuels
    - - Pollutants
        
        Sources that have negative effects in the environment, they are generated by products that severely pollute the enviroment
      - Clean or non-polluting
        
        Low enviromental impact, it isn´t generated by products that pollute the environment
- - - - Increasing the voltage to 220000V or 400000V to prevent significant energy loss
      - Transporting it using high voltage cables attached to towers
      - Decreasing the voltage at the elctricity subsanations to 3-30 Kilovolts
      - Distribute the energy to homes, industries, officines and public facilities. During this stage the voltage is reduced to 230-400V