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Intro Chay #5
Intro Chay #5
The current tendency of the first world is to look at renewable energy resources as a source of
energy.
Most of these renewable energies depend in one way or another on sunlight. Wind and
hydroelectric power are the direct result of differential heating of the Earth's surface
which leads to air moving about (wind) and precipitation forming as the air is lifted. Solar
energy is the direct conversion of sunlight using panels or collectors. Biomass energy is
stored sunlight contained in plants. Other renewable energies that do not depend on
sunlight are geothermal energy, which is a result of radioactive decay in the crust
combined with the original heat of accreting the Earth, and tidal energy, which is a
conversion of gravitational energy.
Energy exists freely in nature. Some of them exist infinitely (never run out,
called RENEWABLE), the rest have finite amounts (they took millions of years to form,
and will run out one day, called NON-RENEWABLE)
Renewable energy comes from natural sources that are constantly and sustainably replenished.
module is a semiconductor based heat pump, where heat is absorbed from one side
and dissipated on the opposite side of the module.