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Can you please go over the nuclear energy process really quickly?
ReplyDeleteAnd is coal a biomass fuel?
Coal is a fossil fuel (it has undergone metamorphosis from it's original form as biomass - as in, via metamorphic processes of the rock cycle).
DeleteHere's a good image: http://www.oncor.com/images/knowledgecollege/h20.jpg The reactor core is the part producing the energy, the control rods help modulate the process, and that's happening in the pressurized water reactor. Water is circulating in that part of the power plant and it gets very hot. That is what's generating the steam in this mode of electricity generation. The rest is mostly the same: steam turning a turbine, causing a generator to make electricity flow on the power lines.
In the process there are three different systems that contain water (keep it separate from the other systems) and heat flows across each (and that's what keeps the system from having a meltdown).
Just FYI: historic vs current Everglades water flow:
ReplyDeletehttp://theevergladesstory.org/journey/
Compared to other sources of energy, is natural gas the most inexpensive and most efficient in terms of Net energy yield?
ReplyDeleteIt'd be close between all of the fossil fuels, but yes, Natural Gas is very cheap and has a high energy yield for the cost.
DeleteAnother source of review info: http://www.youtube.com/user/APESinaBOX/featured
ReplyDeleteNitrogen cycle and water cycle mnemonics:
ReplyDeleteDANfAN for the nitrogen cycle: denitrification assimilation nitrogen-fixation ammonification and nitrification, TRIP-EC for hydrologic: transpiration respiration infiltration precipitation evaporation and condensation
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can you explain external costs?
ReplyDeleteexternal costs (or externalities) are costs associated with a product that are not actually part of what you pay for it (ie: landfill space, pollution clean up, etc).
Deleteso who ends up paying for the pollution clean up and all the other externalities? The government? Or with taxpayer's money?
DeleteWell, the government gets their money from taxes, so ultimately, taxpayers. (or course, if something doesn't get fixed, that's as an example of tragedy of the commons...)
Deleteohh okay thanks :)
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxgpK1EUZns
ReplyDeletewater treatment process
DeleteNice one!
DeleteEl niño- weakening of the trade winds in the equatorial pacific, suppresses Upwelling so bad for fishing
ReplyDeleteLa Nina- usually follows an el niño and is an intensification of normal conditions, upwelling happens here on the west coast of continents
Wait is our test Monday or Tuesday...
ReplyDeleteSeriously?
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Tomorrow morning, 7:20. Check my board for room number (its with the other 6th period folks)
That was a joke hahahaha
DeleteWait Ms.Leonard, I though our test was on Tuesday.....
ReplyDeleteGo get some sleep. :p
ReplyDeleteThat's where I'm off to.
See you around 6:15.