why does electricity pollute the environment?
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Electricity itself does not pollute the environment. But very often, producing electricity causes pollution. Most of our electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels, that causes air and thermal pollution.
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Actually, it supon us to judge whether the energy used up is taken as GOOD or WASTED...\nbut our (humans) point electric energy is not considered as harmfull...<for more clarification contact me>
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"The Effects of Electricity on the Growth of Plants"\n\n\nWe had that topic last year.
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bikesamt, hi!\n\nyou must remember that every type of industry creates different kind of damage to the environment.  for example a company that uses lot of ground water (like coke, pepsi, kingfisher) causes problems with salinity in the water reservoir, and pollution seepage into the water system.\n\nthe following are common ways that companies create pollution:\n\n1. Power Consumption : large offices tend to use more power, and thus the State needs to generate more power to feed their power-hungry ways.  \n2. Traffic : with more and more employees in their premises, these people need to travel long distances, and every single vehicle creates a lot of pollution.\n3. Erosion of Green Belt : Industrial areas are often located in what used to be green cover, or green belts of forests or wasteland.  the plants and animal life are razed to make way for the corporates and their factories.\n4. Conspicuous Consumption : they make a lot of money, and pay their employees well.  these employees have a lot of money, and so spend it on other luxury goods that are not nature-friendly.  instead of man being at harmony with nature, he starts destroying it through his desire for luxury.  this is an indirect way to pollute.\n5. Sewage : large manufacturing units generate billions of litres of sewage and other pollutants that are either released into rivers, streams, lakes, oceans or the air.  this has a very adverse effect.\n6. Air-conditioning : the huge AC units required to cool offices, etc., need a lot of power, and they generate indirect pollution.  also, non-CFC based coolants are very expensive, and few companies make that investment.  CFC destroys the earth's ozone layer.\n7. Building Design : modern offices are designed with lot of glass and metal so that the buildings look "sexy".  but glass is a poor insulator, and air-conditioning needs to work for more time to maintain the temperature inside.  this creates indirect pollution.\n\nthese are the few things i could think of at the moment... \n\nhope it helped... if you need more ideas, drop me a line, and i could be able to help you out.\n\nenjoy!
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Generally terrible for the environment, and only provides nominal power given the environmental impact, and the amount of energy put into the original project itself.\n\nI'm much more in favor of the new wind mills.  They turn slowly, so don't kill birds, and provide power about as cheaply as any coal plant can, without the pollution!
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The Water Pollutance is when the water is dirty for non naturals causes.\n\nFor example, in a stream, the water pollution could be affect this place and the people maybe can't note that ... Why? because, some pollution agents are unseen to the human eye ... for example ... NO2, NO3, S, P, etc, etc ... all this elements in excess in a stream, river, creek, lagoon,  wherever place whit ater ... could be contaminated ...\n\nBut, you could get more information in this link:\n\nhttp://www.dbmain.biz/4/water-pollution/epa%20water%20pollution\n\nIs a link from EPA .... Enviromental Protection Agency...\n\ngood luck !!!!\n\nPD: Please, excuse my english .. I'm learning to write in this Idiom.
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another answer might be that manure makes electricity but of course that goes into how our waste all the way back to the dinosaurs generates energy. how mummies found nowadays have a spark of electricity in them, But.... you wanted to know which animals "generate" electricity and I think you wanted them live so here is a site that tells which animals generate electricity and how much :\nhttp://www.sundayobserver.lk/2006/03/05/juniorob05.html
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Photons from the light of the sun strike atoms in a solar cell and cause electrons to move.  This electricity coming out of the cell (assuming a completed circuit) goes to a storage battery and/or an inverter which converts the DC (what batteries and solar cells generate) to AC (which household appliances use).
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I like the subject of how environmentalists are hurting the environment by boycotting nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is the cleanest way to produce electricity. I think they should build the plants underground. This would minimize damage if it were to go to meltdown.\n\nThe worst part of nuclear energy is the fact that if the country has nuclear energy, they have the means to produce a nuclear bomb. So we wouldn't want rouge states to use it.
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(1) There are several factors which make environmental problems. Some of them are mentioned below for your knowledge.\na) Overcrowding, poor-quality housing\nb) Inadequate provision for water supply\nc) sanitation factors\nd) Different pollutions( air, water, land)\ne) Deforestation\nf) Smoke from vehicles and  factories\n\n(2) In addition to that, secondary impacts of the above mentioned factors are also make environmental problems.
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There's lots of different effects of pollution. Very few pollutants directly kill creatures in the water, unless they're released in huge amounts because they're simply not strong enough. What they usually do is disrupt the ecosystem that then kills most of the creatures.\nExamples:\nOil - creates a film on the water which blocks the passage of gasses in and out of the water. CO2 builds up in the water and kills most of the marine fauna. (this can also kill the terra life, birds and animals which also add to the pollution of the water) These rotting creatures increase the amount of nitrogen and nutrient in the water which encourage bacterial and algae blooms in the water. These particles in the water then block the light which kills the water flora. If the pollutants stay in the water and can not be flushed out then they encourage the build up even more organic matter around the waterway, and this restricts the flow of the water even more. The natural disruption of this cycle is flooding, which breaks up and washes away the toxins and debris to the ocean, which is much better able to recover from these processes. This process is less common now due to wide spread control of waterways with damming and irrigation. Many first world countries artifically recreate this process artifically by periodically flushing the river.\n\n(although our oceans are now getting in trouble too because many of the toxins we use don't break down, so over time they gradually build up and litterally have nowhere to go)\n\nAnother example is nitrogen pollution (cleaning products) which do a similar process, but they directly encourage bacterial and algae blooms... then you can take it from there.\n\nHeavy metals pollution is a little different. It builds up in a system and as it's heavier, it mostly sinks to the bottom of the river and is difficult to flush out, remaining for many generations. Smaller particles are consumed by the ocean life (eg, fish eating worms that each have a small amount in their system, then birds/humans/other animals eat the fish and the toxins are transported to the land.) This usually makes everything very sick, putting strains on any already stressed populations. This has a less dramatic effect, but much longer lasting results.\n\nI hope this helped.
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The radiations emitted from the sun and also the earth are usually blocked by layers of atmospheric gases and prevent them from escaping into space.This causes 'GLOBAL WARMING'-due to the reflected radiations.This is also known as 'GREEN HOUSE EFFECT'.
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i gues.....um.......Electricity
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Static electricity can produce ozone (O3) which does have a particular smell.
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There is a huge problem with the pollution. I don't want to start glowing bright green. With Nuclear power plant comes Nuclear targets for the enemy too. You can't hide them, they glow in the dark.
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The system uses high voltage to ionize molecules in the air mostly oxygen to ozone. Ions have an electric charge sort of like static electricity they attract dust particles and create a heavier particle that falls out of the air. also dust particles are attracted to the high voltage plates much like your tv screen attracts dust.
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to make sure that our planet doesnt get polluted so much with trash, and to conserve more of our resources. duh.