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Coal in Electricity Production, 2008.
An analysis of the benefits and concerns regarding the use of fossil fuel for massive energy generation.
2,444 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper discusses the use of fossil fuel for massive energy generation. It describes the debate over the use of fossil fuels - citing the arguments both for and against their use. It focuses on the reasons why fossil fuel production is important and necessary and describes the benefits of its use. The paper then looks at the environmental concerns regarding the use of coal for electricity production.
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"Obviously, using any fossil fuel for massive energy generation will be a mixed bag. Developers will always be fighting a battle against environmental destruction, as fossil fuel technologies tend to be highly polluting and contribute to global warming through the production of carbon dioxide. Nonetheless, fossil fuels will be a significant component of the world's energy supply for at least the next few decades as no alternative energy source is currently mature enough to supplant fossil fuel technology. In the end, coal power--if properly utilized in technically advanced gasification plants--has the potential to provide cheap, plentiful power to the world with fewer environmental issues than would have been the case even a few decades ago. New technology makes sustainable coal power a possibility, if not a certainty."
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Fuels and Electricity Deregulation, 2002.
An essay that explains the changes in fuels that generate electricity.
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 14 sources, $ 124.95
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This paper discusses in detail the changes in the fuels that have been used to generate electricity as a result of the electric utility deregulation in the United States, but more specifically, in California and Pennsylvania.
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Australia's National Electricity Market, 2006.
This paper evaluates the microeconomic reforms within the Australian electricity industry.
1,661 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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The paper examines the National Electricity Market (NEM) formed to facilitate the supply of electricity using free market principles. The paper describes the reforms made in the key sectors of the industry and analyzes the effects of such changes on consumers and society as a whole. The paper shows how the microeconomic reforms have helped free up competition, offer more choice to consumers and improved efficiency in distribution and production. The paper notes, however, that privatization of public assets is a contentious issue and has already imposed constraints on supply and resulted in higher prices in Victoria and South Australia. The paper concludes that it would be in the national interest to closely monitor progress with reforms within these states before similar policies are implemented elsewhere.
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"A substantial policy shift in Australia, since the 1980s, has been for microeconomic reforms within key industries, to offer greater efficiency in economy and decrease red tape, lowering barriers to entry for competitors in the hope of creating a pure free market. Thus since the 1990s focus has moved to the electricity industry, to further reforms made in other sectors in the economy. Electricity is an essential commodity, vital for sustained growth and development throughout the whole economy. The electrical industry is also an industry traditionally dominated by the states, which fostered their own - often inefficient - public utilities, which were in charge of generation, distribution and retail, often with little or no private competition."
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Electricity, 2002.
his paper discusses the history of electricity.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper examines the background history of electricity and discusses how conduction operates. The authoridentifies the major discoveries of scientists who have studied electricity and discusses the inventions these discoveries have led to.
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The Power and Electricity Industry, 2002.
This paper discusses the economic structure of the power and electricity industry from small local monopolies to today's competitive market.
1,165 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper reviews the history of the economic structure of the power and electricity industry, which today markets energy at the wholesale and retail level. The paper illustrates the effects of various marketing structures such as pricing strategies, economies of scale, barriers to entry and other such concepts. The author points out that a continuously increasing demand for electricity and efficiency gains stemming from competition and mergers is changing the basic structure of the power industry.
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"In the beginning, these small, privately owned company's represented small individual monopolies. Within a certain geographical area, there was no competition. If the customer wanted power, they paid the price demanded. Every private monopoly was a price maker. There was no substitute product and no competitive pricing scheme. If the customer wanted the product, they had only one place to get it and either paid the price or did without. This type of market structure leads to the companies realizing increasing profit margins."
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Renewable Energy and Electricity, 2006.
A look at the options for renewable energy and electricity.
1,763 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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In this paper the author examines the sources available to create power and electricity. He looks at how technology is used to take advantage of the forces of nature available. The paper highlights how up until recently only the power created by falling water has been explored and used successfully in a number of applications. Sun, wind, waves, rivers, tides and the heat from radioactive decay in the earth's core are all looked at as being renew ables, in other words they give continuous sources. The paper concludes with a look at all of the environmental aspects of using these renewable sources, the arguments for and against each one including the aesthetic issues that arise. Introduction Solar Energy Wind Energy Rivers Geothermal Relating Renewable to Base-Load Electricity Demand Environmental Aspects
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"The main role of solar energy in the future will be that of direct heating. Much of our energy need is for heat below 60oC - e.g. in hot water systems. A lot more, particularly in industry, is for heat in the range 60 - 110oC. [2] Together these may account for a significant proportion of primary energy use in industrialized nations. The first need is readily supplied by solar power much of the time in some places and the second application commercially is probably not far off."
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Electricity, 2002.
The production, transmission and distribution of electricity.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper elaborates on the production, transmission and distribution of electricity from the turbine to the homes of the consumers.
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Electricity, 1994.
This paper discusses the history and development of electricity from Benjamin Franklin to the early 20th Century: Major theories, discoveries and applications, social and psychological implications, occult aspects, inventions, motors, cells, communicati
6,750 words (approx. 27.0 pages), 12 sources, $ 135.95
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"Before about the last quarter of the eighteenth century, electricity essentially did not exist as a comprehensible phenomenon. The effects of lightning were of course universally known, but no remotely accurate guesses had been made as to its causes. The phenomenon of static electricity was also known--the word electric and its variations comes from the Greek word elektron (in Latin, electrum), or amber, which produces static electricity when rubbed with a cloth (Shilling, 1948, p. 5). (confusing, the term was also used for an alloy of gold and silver, perhaps of similar color.) Experimentation with static electricity began in sixteenth-century Italy; Jerome Cardan, about 1550, first distinguished electrical from magnetic phenomena. The relationship between the two continued to be acknowledged; Gilbert, in 1600, ... "
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California Electricity Crisis, 2006.
This paper examines the California electricity crisis and looks at the regulatory response.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper provides a discussion of the California energy crisis and the regulatory response by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Through reviewing the facts of the case and detailing FERC's response, it is shown that energy providers engaged in price manipulation and the regulatory response was slow and ineffective. The writer notes that it took several FERC attempts to get it right.
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Tidal Power as a Source of Electricity, 1994.
This paper discusses the use of tidal power as a cource of electricity: Technology, cause of surges, mills, caissons, barrages, turbines, costs and advantages.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 55.95
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"Tidal energy has been used by humans for hundreds of years. In the modern era, the power is utilized for the production of electricity. The technologies involved are both proven and effective. However, with the exception of a tidal power plant at La Rance, France, the energy resource remains largely undeveloped. This may be in part because of the relatively high cost of the electricity produced. Only in appropriate circumstances will tidal power ever utilize its potential as both a dependable and enduring power source.
Tidal surges are caused by complex interactions between the gravitational fields of the sun and the moon. These phenomena occur in cycles of varying length. For the most part, the earth's oceans bulge along an axis which is approximately in line ... "
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Electricity, 2000.
An examination of the history of discoveries and inventions related to electricity and its practical applications, from the 16th century to nuclear energy, fiber optics and superconductors.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 15 sources, $ 95.95
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"Electricity is such an integral part of daily living that it is difficult to imagine a time when it did not "exist" a time when there were no lights, no computers, no phones, and no appliances. A time when everyday tasks like laundry, cooking, and vacuuming were not made easy with mechanics run by electricity. However, such a time did exist. But with the observations and experiments of curious and intelligent scientific figures, electricity was discovered and harnessed.
Awareness of electricity dates back to the Greeks who discovered that amber, when rubbed, attracted lightweight particles such as straw (Dunsheath, p. 1). However, the value of this force was not determined until much later when scientists began to study it in more depth and invent equipment that could measure and capture it."
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Lightning and Electricity, 2000.
This paper examines the scientific discoveries dealing with electricity.
1,700 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 9 sources, $ 55.95
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This paper presents in chronological order the study of lightning and how as new ideas would come about and be proven, other inventors would use that idea and take it into a new direction.
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"Lightning is a form of static electricity. When it is raining, raindrops can acquire extra electrons. These negatively charged raindrops seek out the positively charged ground. When these two charges connect, current flows through randomly placed areas of charged particles. This is what lightning is, and what gives it the jagged pattern (see diagram). Lightning has been on Earth longer than people have. Still we don't know everything about it. We do know that lightning can take a variety of forms. The most common are forked, streak, ribbon, or bead lightning. All of these types are essentially the same with variations on atmospheric conditions. There is one type called ball lightning, but very little is known about this type. It is also known that lightning will travel from cloud to cloud, cloud to ground, and ground to cloud. Early studies done to find that lightning is electricity paved the way for several other important findings about electricity and how it behaves."
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Plants & Electricity, 1997.
Negative effects of electrical fields on plant development & growth. Dicussing root elongation, electrotropism, flowering and more.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 11 sources, $ 47.95
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" Recently there has been considerable public concern and scientific interest over the hazards associated with exposure of plants to extremely low frequency electrical fields (60-Hz), particularly those related to high voltage electric transmission lines. Using specific examples, this paper discusses the detrimental impact of such electric field on various aspects of plant development and growth including root elongation and electrotropism, phloem transport efficiency, species susceptibility and flowering rhythms.
Each plant cell consists of a highly conductive cytoplasmic core surrounded by a thin insulating plasma membrane which is in turn surrounded by a porous - but rigid - cell wall. The insulating plasma membrane plays a prominent role in the electrochemical balance between the cell cytoplasm and the.."
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The Re-regulation of California's Electricity Market, 2002.
Discussing the pros and cons of regulating California's utility market.
1,568 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains the economic and social justifications for regulation of utility markets in general, and California's electricity market in particular. It then explains the history of, and then critically reviews, the comments presented an article in "The Economist" titled "How to Keep the Fans Turning").
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California’s deregulation effort five years ago, and the governor’s recent steps to reverse it, illustrate clearly some of the economic concepts addressed in this class. A recent article in The Economist magazine (“How to keep the fans turning”) presents some specific criticisms of the moves to “re-regulate” the state’s power business. In doing so, this article offers further examples of some familiar economic concepts in action. In the end, the magazine’s critical stance seems justified, particularly with what is likely to be its strongest point of all: that the solution to California’s power crisis is based on the classic relationship between price and demand.
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Using Solar Power to Meet Our Electricity Needs, 1998.
This paper deals exclusively with nature of solar power, detailing both its most basic theories and common applications. Diagrams and illustrations are included.
2,019 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 8 sources, $ 63.95
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