• Question: what is renewable energy please dudes and dudets?

    Asked by alle to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Hugh Roderick

      Hugh Roderick answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Renewable energy is taken from sources that replenish quicker then we can use it up. So oil and coal is produced too slowly to replenish itself before we have used it all up so is non-renewable, where as wind, sun and waves aren’t going to run out before we use them up as they are continuous. The only problem is that renewable energy sources tend to be less efficient at producing energy then non renewable sources so we need lots and lots of wind turbines and solar panels and wave turbines to meet the current requirement for electricity.

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      Douglas Blane answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Energy you can keep coming back and taking more of without it running out.

      Wind, wave, tidal, solar and hydro-electric energy are all renewable.

      Coal, oil and gas aren’t renewable, because once you burn them they’re gone.

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      Tom Hardy answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Renewable energy is energy that can be created from things that probably not run out. Most of our energy (electricity) comes from power stations, either nuclear or coal. The problem is coal is a finite resource, in other words it will run out or in non-renewable. So scientists are using things like the the power of wind, the power of waves out at sea and solar energy from the sun that will not run out. Technology exists that convert this stored energy from natural sources into energy we can use!

    • Photo: Matthew Hurley

      Matthew Hurley answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      WHen the energy comes from something that is not ‘used up’ – like wind power (you don’t jave less wind after you’ve used it for energy).

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