Name: Date: Instructor\'s Name:m Assignment: SCIE211 Phase 4 Lab Report Title: A

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Name: Date: Instructor's Name:m Assignment: SCIE211 Phase 4 Lab Report Title: Analysis of Energy Sources Instructions: You will write a 1-page lab report using the scientific method. When your lab report is complete, post it in Submitted Assignment files Part I: Using the lab animation, fill in the data table below to gather your data, and use it to help you generate your hypothesis, outcomes, and analysis. Energy Fud(Cly CoRadioactivi Solid Accidents Source UraniuEmission Dioxide ty mS Waste Needed (tons) and Other (millisiever (tons) (tons)Emissionst) (tons) QuarterCoal Nuclear QuarterCoal Nuclear Quarter Coal

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The production of energy such as electricity, mechanical energy etc. can take place form non renewable resources such as coal, petroleum, natural gas etc. or from renewable resources like wind turbine, hydroelectricity, solar panels etc. Basically in order to do some work we need some form of energy. In coal, petroleum etc we have chemical energy while in the wind turbines we have potential energy, in hydroelectric power generation we use potential energy of water, in solar panels we use sun’s heat energy to convert in into electricity by using some sort of converter. Normally we use dynamo to convert the mechanical energy that is present in all fluids such as wateror wind to convert into usable form of energy like electricity. While in the case of nuclear, coal, gas powered plant we heat water or some other liquid and then the produced vapour is used to move the dynamos. Dynamo is also known as turbines in normal terminology. In the case of geothermal power plant the difference in the temperature is used to heat water and due to this convection currents develops in water which drives the turbines to produce energy. The advantages of fossil fuels are their easy availability, their cheapness and their ease of usage while the production of green house gases and other pollutants are their disadvantages, apart from this they are in present in limited quantities and hence they won’t last forever. In casebook of non renewable resources the pros are their environmental friendliness, no production of green house gases while the cons are their initial cost of investment, cost of power generation and complexity associated with them.

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