Environmental Issues

Wind energy can be defined as a source of renewable energy that comes from air currents flowing over the surface of the earth. Wind power is arguably one of the earliest and most basic forms of energy, having been utilized since the development of the first windmills in Europe hundreds of years ago. As the world intensifies its search for alternative energy sources, there has been a shift of attention to technologies aimed at converting wind energy into usable forms of electricity. Wind energy...

 Accidents are not something that can be considered as something out of the ordinary, specially when dealing with immense machineries and outdated technology. Nuclear power plant operation is no exception to the rule. Massive amounts of energy, if not properly monitored and regulated, can and will cause a catastrophe unimaginable in scale and magnitude. Whether the accident at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986 was an accident or caused by human negligence or sheer incompetence will be the...

As global temperatures increase more water vapor evaporates, the water in the troposphere increases and more water condenses to form clouds. Global warming is caused by the activities of the human race and has become very severe with the situation worsening by day (Markham, 2009). Approximately 100% of temperature increases in the past fifty years has resulted from the raise in atmosphere of the greenhouse gas concentrations such as water vapor, ozone, carbon dioxide and methane. When sunlight...

Executive Summary Natural gas remains one of the most viable solutions to the US energy needs; however, the production process has presented critical environmental concerns not only to the state of Maryland, but to the United States as a whole. Natural gas producing plants are considered significant air pollutants thereby posing great danger to the immediate surrounding and the entire global ecosystem (Inhofe 1). Based on the exponential increase in natural gas plants during the past two decades,...