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- - - - Photo-thermal power plant
        
        In this type of power plant, the heat generated by solar radiation produces steam that is used to move the rotor in the generator
        
        To do this, they use special mirrors, called heliostats, that reflect sunlight and concentrate it at one point, where it reaches a high temperature
      - Photovoltaic power plan
        
        In these power plants, solar radiation is transformed directly into electricity by panels of photovoltaic cells
        
        These power plants consist of large areas of photovoltaic panel. There are also isolated power plants that are very small in size, which are used to supply electricity to homes in rural areas.
  - - - Specific crops, such as sunflowers and cougar beet.
      - Waste from agri-food industries
      - Forestry and agricultural waste.
  - - - The mechanical energy from the waves
      - The energy from the ocean's thermal gradient.
      - The mechanical energy from the tides.
- - - - The exploitation of fossil fuels and nuclear power means the depletion of resources, which makes it necessary to find new ones
      - Fuel extraction processes are sometimes harmful to the environment. In particular, timber extraction has led to the disappearance of large areas of forest, a process that is continuing even today.
    - - Oil is transported by means of oil pipelines and oil tankers.
      - Oil pipelines can suffer accidents caused by nature or human error,
        which result in uncontrolled spills
    - - Large hydroelectric power plants require water reservoirs covering large areas, which profoundly change the natural cycle of overs, flood large land areas and destroy ecosystems, in addition to increasing the risk of accidents
      - Conventional thermal power plants can cause numerous problems and environmental hazards
        
        They produce air pollution — suspended particles, CO, heavy
        metal molecules and so on
        
        They emit large amounts of CO2 which increases the greenhouse
        effect
        
        They emit sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide that cause acid
        rain, which is very harmful to the environment
        
        he water used in the cooling system is returned to he environment
        while it's still warm, which affects both animal and plant life
      - Nuclear thermal power plants are accompanied by the risk of
        nuclear accidents and the problem of nuclear waste, some of which remain dangerous for thousands of years
    - - The fuels we use in vehicles and heating systems emit gases and
        particles similar to those generated by conventional thermal power plants
- - - - the operating of electrical appliances, heating systems, hot water systems, heat for cooling and for means of transport, for example.
    - - the operating of factories and companies construction and agriculture so on
- - - - The turbine converts mechanical energy into the rotating movement of a shaft
      - An acelerator has a fixed part, called a stator, and a moving part,
        called a rotor, connected to the turbine shaft
- - - - Uranium ts the main fuel used
      - heir main advantage ts the high return on their energy producuon