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Wind Energy: A Viable Renewable Resource., 2002.
A look at the options of alternative energy through a wind source.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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A concise expository paper on wind-powered sources of electricity, and their use as a renewable resource. Includes history and a detailed section on current wind turbine technology.
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Wind Energy: A Renewable Resource., 2002.
A focus on wind-powered energy technology.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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A concise expository paper on wind-powered sources of electricity, and their use as a renewable resource. Includes history and a detailed section on current wind turbine technology.
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Wind Energy, 2005.
A discussion on the use of wind to create energy, which is becoming an increasingly important ecological solution to the problems of energy sourcing.
2,465 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper examines how, although the development of wind energy is increasing at about 40% annually with supporting legislation in several major countries, there are two main questions to be answered---cost and the amount of land needed. The author points out that almost every region of the U.S. has some areas of good wind energy and states, lying on the Great Plains from Texas to North Dakota, have a huge wind electricity-generating potential, which far exceeds its current electricity consumption. The paper points out that environmentalists have found that wind energy can create problems of noise, land erosion, visual clutter and the killing of birds who fly into the rotating blades.
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"One needs to look into the future for the real impact that wind energy can make in the U.S. There are models already in place which give some indication, up to the year 2006, what might develop in these next years. It would add some 10,000 MW of new wind energy generating capacity. There would be a regular schedule for installation, which was begun in 1997 with 100KW of additional availability, and culminating by the year 2006 in the addition of 2000 MW annually. There is a reason for accelerating installation year by year. First, while it will take time to organize installation activity, they cannot be negotiated and erected overnight. It will also require a stepped-up production, whether in the U.S. or overseas (Denmark, as was mentioned earlier, is not the major manufacturer and distributor of wind-energy turbines.)."
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Wind Energy, 2008.
An analysis of the emerging wind energy industry.
3,172 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper discusses the industry of "wind farming", the how's and why's, and its role/importance/popularity in this day and age of soaring fuel prices. Facts are offered on how wind farming can reduce the pressure on energy companies to deliver our daily energy needs. The operation of the wind turbine is also discussed, as are the criteria for establishing a wind farm, plus the estimated cost of doing so. In addition, several wind farming sites in the United States and Europe are mentioned, including Cape Wind in Massachusetts, Maple Ridge, New York, and offshore Denmark. Controversy, too, surrounding the erection and operation of the turbines is also covered.
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Overview--What Is a Wind Farm?
The Anatomy of a Wind Turbine
Conditions of Creation
Case Study: Cape Wind
Controversy over Establishment
Measuring Up As an Industry
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"Wind turbines are gaining exposure rapidly in the United States and around the world. They produce electricity at zero cost to the earth's atmosphere. A wind farm, by definition, is a group of several wind turbines located within a relatively close distance which connect together and feed energy back to the power grid. When the wind blows, the omni-directional rotor assembly will spin, generating energy by converting the wind's kinetic energy into rotational mechanical energy. Each wind farm has a power substation where the electricity produced by each turbine is converted into higher voltage and connected (most commonly) to long-range, high-voltage power lines. "
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Renewable Energy & Environmental Policy, 2005.
A review of renewable energy and federal and state government tax credits being offered to businesses and consumers who purchase and install renewable energy systems.
3,554 words (approx. 14.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper defines renewable energy, reviews the need for renewable energy and discusses the benefits of renewable energy use. The paper further discusses the tax credits that are currently being offered for the purchase and installation of renewable energy systems. The paper then analyzes the effectiveness of this tax credit policy.
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"There are many origins of renewable energy. Renewable energy can be derived from wind energy, water power, solar energy, geothermal energy, biomass as in liquid biofuel, biogas and solid biomass. Because of the large number of sources for renewable energy, the United States could be self sufficient in harvesting this form of energy which is one of the bonuses it offers. This is one of the reasons the federal government is now offering tax incentives for renewable energy systems. "One of the major goals of this policy is to reduce our dependence on imported oil and OPEC's influence on free market prices by utilizing more of our own domestic energy resources, including renewables" (News, p. 1). "
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Renewable Energy in the Middle East, 2007.
This paper discusses the potential use of renewable energy technologies in the buildings of Arabian Gulf Countries.
1,582 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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The paper relates that renewable energy is playing a large role in Middle Eastern countries' infrastructure building in the public and corporate realms. The paper discusses how solar and wind energy are at the core of their current interest in renewable energy, as such resources are available in the majority of the region. The paper concludes that the foundation of the Middle East region is as dependent upon the realization of a balanced energy system as is the rest of the world.
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"In the literature regarding the Middle East and the utilization of renewable energy there is a great deal of evidence of interest and even application. This is despite the region's critical interest in fossil fuels as a resource for change, as oil has been for the last 20 or so years for some countries and longer for others. (Cordesman 1997) Over 80 percent of the natural oil reserves are found in the Middle East. (Borowitz 1999) It seems that renewable energy, and especially photovoltaic technology and wind energy, partly as outsiders have been a big part of modernization in many Middle Eastern nations as a result of relatively new found wealth, allowing infrastructure building in the public and corporate realms, and the historical fear of the potentially fatal rate of decline of oil reserves in any one region."
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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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Solar Power: A Viable Energy Source, 2005.
A look at the feasibility of solar power as an energy source.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses solar energy in terms of natural resource economics and relates it to the concept of free market environmentalism. The paper also explains the benefits of using solar power as an energy source as opposed to fossil fuels.
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"Since the oil embargo, oil price increases have been a concern for many nations, especially for the United States. Today's high fuel prices speak to the imperative to find alternative energy sources to fossil fuels. Solar power is one such potentially viable alternative. Why use solar power? In addition to its value as an environmentally clean source of energy, solar power has economic value in terms of being a renewable resource that can be controlled by the nation or region using..."
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Solar Renewable Energy, 2007.
A brief overview of solar energy technology and how to maximize the efficiency of a system using government incentives.
908 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper discusses how the use of solar power could free us from hazardous gases emitted by fossil fuel combustion. It looks at how photovoltaic technology takes the energy of the sun and directly converts it into electricity and how PV's are found in navigational buoys, calculators, yard lights, watches, electric fencing, streetlights, and irrigation pumps. The paper contends that because energy from the sun is free and readily available unlike fossil fuels, we can set up an affordable system that will provide free electricity for our basic needs at an initial cost comparable to alternative forms of energy.
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"A solar-thermal system collects the sun's energy and uses it to heat liquids. The heated liquid can be used to generate steam, which can then be used to turn turbines for electrical power. The steam can also be used for heat. In California, approximately 350 megawatts of power are produced by solar-thermal plants in the Mojave Desert. A well designed solar-thermal system in a home can reduce the cost of energy by as much as 85 percent and pay for itself in approximtely five years. Solar-thermal power releases no pollution and creates no waste, however in order for this system to operate, a lot of sunlight is required. "
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"Gone with the Wind" vs. ?The Wind Done Gone?, 2002.
This paper discusses in detail the law suit between the estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone with the Wind" and Alice Randall, author ?The Wind Done Gone?.
2,680 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 13 sources, $ 80.95
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The paper describes the books and the law case: Houghton Mifflin had scheduled the publication in June last year when the lawyers of estate ?represented by Sun Trust Bank -- sought for and obtained a preliminary injunction in April stopping its publication charging that Randall violated the Copyright Law by plagiarizing Mitchell?s novel and that it was not simply a case of free speech. The author states that advocates of free speech felt that if Randall?s book continued to be blocked or stopped, it would have disastrous consequences for other forms of media such as television and radio. (Randall won her case.)
Table of Content
Sun Trust Bank vs. Houghton Mifflin Company
Preliminary Injunction
The Copyright Law
The Novels Compared
Reactions and Support
The First Amendment
Earlier Parodies
Limitations to Copyright
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"Randall argued that she told her story as a political parody written from the viewpoint of Scarlett O?Hara?s mulatto half-sister, Tara, and had the right to be published. But the federal judge disagreed and said that her ?recitation of so much of the earlier work is overwhelming? and thus, constituted un-authorized sequel. To illustrate his point, Judge Pannell said that, while Mitchell?s novel ends without describing what becomes of her leading and tragic character, Randall provides that ending in her work. ?The right to answer those questions and to write a sequel or other derivative work, however, legally belongs to Ms. Mitchell?s heirs, not Ms. Randall.?"
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U.S. Energy Policy & Solar Energy, 1991.
This paper reviews the potentialities of solar energy as an alternative fuel and discusses the need for federal funding into research and development of the relevant technologies.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, $ 79.95
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"U.S. energy policy is a matter of ongoing concern. Our society makes use of massive amounts of energy of various types, and the need for energy is growing. Energy policy is tied to a number of other policies, from the economic to foreign affairs. The costs of energy have an impact on every aspect of society, and energy policy relates to foreign affairs in that the dependence of America on foreign energy sources creates a situation whereby the nation can be held hostage to the whims of external powers. In such an atmosphere, more and more concern has been raised that the United States discover a source of renewable energy, something that will not be depleted as will fossil fuels, something that is cleaner and safer for the environment than are fossil fuels, and something that is still economically viable, producing sufficient energy at a cost ... "
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Energy Efficiency and the National Energy Security Act of 2001, 2001.
2,230 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 9 sources, $ 69.95
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This paper discusses the National Energy Security Act of 2001, designed to protect the energy security of the United States and reduce America?s dependency on foreign oil. It provides a complete analysis of the bill itself, as well as a report on the opposition to, and support for the bill. This leads to a broader discussion of partisan politics and the political system in the United States.
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Nuclear Energy: Failed Source of Energy, 2002.
This paper explains how the United States' nuclear power program failed.
2,770 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 82.95
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This paper explains the reasons behind the halt in nuclear power plant construction in the United States. Factors in the decline of nuclear power plants include raising costs, disposal of nuclear waste, concern for safety, declining public opinion and governmental programs and decisions not favorable to the nuclear power industry. Footnotes.
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"After a period of rapid growth in the nuclear power industry, resulting in over a hundred nuclear power plants being constructed in the United States alone, in the early 1970?s the industry began to slow and even began to decline in the 1980?s, while the rest of the world continued to increase their nuclear industry capacity. In the mid-1970?s the Atomic Energy Commission predicated that by the year 2000 there would be more than 1,000 nuclear power plants in the United States.[1] No new nuclear power plants have been ordered in the United States since 1973 and several plants have gone off-line since.[2] Between 1990 and 1995, 20 additional nuclear power plants came online outside of the United States, with an additional 36 under construction. Furthermore, Robert Newman, the President of ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Systems, in a October 6, 1996 New York Times article suggested that his company had been approached by the government of China with a plan to build as many as 150 nuclear power plants over the next 40 years.[3] Currently, there are over 437 nuclear power plants operating around the world.[4] Hence, while the rest of the world is increasing their dependence on nuclear power, the question becomes, why is the Untied States making a rapid reversal in its dependence on nuclear power? Several tangible factors have been suggested: the rising costs of construction of a nuclear power plant, the increase in time that it takes to construct a nuclear power plant, the disposal of low grade and high grade nuclear waste, public safety of living near a nuclear power plant, declining public support for nuclear power, and the fear of nuclear power plants contributing to the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world."
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Energy Sources, 2004.
An analysis of our current sources of energy and exploration of the alternative sources of energy that exist.
1,745 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper examines how the energy crisis that plagues many American cities has been at the center of much debate. It looks at information about current energy sources, such as hydroelectricity, wind energy, nuclear energy, and fossil fuel. The discussion also covers alternative energy sources, such as solar energy, hydrogen energy, and biomass energy. It seeks to explain the expense, transportation, production, and storage of these energy sources and focuses on issues of practicality, such as current availability and renewal. It also discusses efficiency and environmental ramifications.
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Introduction
Current Forms of Energy
Hydroelectricity
Wind Energy
Nuclear Energy
Fossil Fuel
Alternative forms of Energy
Solar Energy
Hydrogen Energy
Biomass energy
Efficiency, Practicality and Environmental Ramifications
Conclusion
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"Wind Energy is also a current source of electricity for millions of people. (Blackburn, 1987) Utilities can use the energy from the wind to propel vessels or to pump water. (Blackburn, 1987) wind energy is rather inexpensive especially in remote areas. (Blackburn, 1987) According to an article in the Geographical Review, wind energy is extremely efficient and is now the fastest growing source of renewable energy. (Pasqualetti 2000) Blackburn (1987) asserts that wind energy can produce energy for a cost of 12-15? per kilowatt hour before tax benefits come into consideration. (Blackburn, 1987)"
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