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ENERGY
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2 electricity
I t can be easily transformed into other forms of energy, such as light and heat.
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5 Environmental impact
The building and operating of an ejectncai power plant results in an ecological change in that region This is due both to the construction of the necessary infrastructure and the waste that this activity generates.
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By origin Primary:
• Obtained directly from nature
• Examples, crude oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy and renewable energies
Secondary:
• Resulting from transformation of pnmary sources
• Examples; electnaty, some petroleum denvatives
It has many diferent uses
House hold uses: the operating of electncal appliances
Industrial uses: the operating of factones and companies.
By availability in nature and capacity for regeneration
Renewable:
• Abundant and inexhaustible
Non-renewable:
• May or may not be abundant
• Depleted when we use them up
• Cannot be renewed in a short penod of time
Energy sources are natural resources from which we obtain different forms
of energy that can be transformed for a specific use
By use in each country
Conventional:
• Most commonly used in mdustrialised countnes
• Example energy that comes from fossil fuels
Non-conventional:
• Alternauve energy sources
• In early stages of their technological development
• Solar and wind power belong to this group
By environmental impact
Clean or non-polluting:
• Low environmental impact
• Don't generate by-products that pollute the environment
Pollutants:• Sources that have negative effects on the environment,for example, they might generate by-products
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