How is U.S. energy usage related to acid rain?
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The USA creates more energy than any other country in the world.  When energy is created, especially by burning fossil fuels like coal and oil, chemical fumes are released into the air.  These chemicals, especially sulfuric dioxide and nitrogen oxides, combine with water vapor in clouds, and when it rains, the resulting acid is carried back to earth in the raindrops.
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It is actually a very strong acid which has a pH value of less than 2...I think it is 0 or 1. Sulphuric acid can cause acid rain which destroys our environment. To recover those destruction, it has an effect in the economy of the place or a country. Besides acid rain, acids react with metal which corrodes them or makes them rusty.. This might lead to more damage of pipes which eventually might burst if there is excess. To repair them also has an economical effect. These are the disadvantages....however, ont he bright side, sulphuric acid can be used to neutralize alkali. this is a way to save the environment and money. However, sulphuric acid can be expensive sometimes...(not sure)..
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U.S. production of anhydrous ammonia is dropping rapidly and was about\n13 million tons for the last year that good estimates are available.\n\nThe US produces 13 Million Tons of Greenhouse Gas emissions from Washing Machines.\n\nTake your pick ,but if it was for the radio contest from Red Dragon radio the correct answer revealed was the Greenhouse Gas emissions from washing machines.
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The process that leads to acid rain begins with the burning of fossil fuels. Burning, or combustion, is a chemical reaction in which oxygen from the air combines with carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and other elements in the substance being burned. The new compounds formed are gases called oxides. When sulfur and nitrogen are present in the fuel, their reaction with oxygen yields sulfur dioxide and various nitrogen oxide compounds. In the United States, 70 percent of sulfur dioxide pollution comes from power plants, especially those that burn coal. In Canada, industrial activities, including oil refining and metal smelting, account for 61 percent of sulfur dioxide pollution. Nitrogen oxides enter the atmosphere from many sources, with motor vehicles emitting the largest share—43 percent in the United States and 60 percent in Canada.\n\nOnce in the atmosphere, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides undergo complex reactions with water vapor and other chemicals to yield sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and other pollutants called nitrates and sulfates. The acid compounds are carried by air currents and the wind, sometimes over long distances. When clouds or fog form in acid-laden air, they too are acidic, and so is the rain or snow that falls from them. \n\nAcid pollutants also occur as dry particles and as gases, which may reach the ground without the help of water. When these “dry” acids are washed from ground surfaces by rain, they add to the acids in the rain itself to produce a still more corrosive solution. The combination of acid rain and dry acids is known as acid deposition.\n\nKKG
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To answer the first question, most power generation currently in use comes from burning things (coal, oil, gas, wood), that contain carbon in their molecular structure.  This carbon is combined with oxygen (typically from air), creating carbon dioxide, and releasing energy.  This carbon dioxide is released into the air.  Depending on the fuel source, other components and contaminants of the fuel may be burned or released as well, producing other types of pollution (such as mercury or acid rain).\n\nWith nuclear power (fission), the energy comes from a reaction contained entirely within a nuclear pile (generally made of uranium or plutonium).  Neither carbon nor oxygen needed for the process, and so CO2 is not produced.  In addition (at present), generally all of the waste products of the reaction are kept sealed and contained at special storage facilities.  While these waste products have the potential to be hazardous, because they are kept sealed, the environmental impact is greatly reduced.
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Actually, no one has quite gotten into the reality.  Rain is almost all rain.  But something like 99% of all precipation drops form around something called condensation nuclei.  Basically that's a fancy term to say some small particle in the air.\nThis can be dust, clay, sea salt, pollutants (leading to smog, acid rain, etc), even tiny insects... whatever's available.  Water actually takes advantage of the particle's curvature, allowing water to condense even though the air isn't 100% saturated.\nCloud seeding is an attempt to induce additional rainfall by adding more particles.  It is only marginally useful in most places.\n\nThere are also small amounts of mixed in gases (nitrogen and oxygen mainly) and any other pollutants the raindrop comes into contact with while falling through the atmosphere.\n\nBut mainly rain is just water.  Awesome stuff, too!\n\nHope I helped,\nGod bless,\nShane
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It would be heat and sunlight- A cycle means that a substance or energy will eventually return to its origin.  Sunlight generates heat and chemical energy on the Earth, but is non-cyclic, in other words, you have to have a constant infusion of it all the time, it doesnt recycle.  The majority of the energy of sunlight is lost as heat, out of our atmosphere into space, never to enter the cycle again. So the flow would be sunlight in, some chemical use and some heat absorption, and eventually all the energy is lost as heat out.
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According to the CIA factbook, the United States produces 7.61      million barrels per day of oil, while it consumes 20.03 million barrels per day.  According to the USGS and Department of Energy, the United States accounts for 40% of the world's oil consumption, while producing only about 10% of the world's oil.
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Currently according to the National Academy of Science in Washington DC, the U.S. uses up about 25% of the worlds energy recourse's, yet is responsible for 35% of the world's greenhouse gases due to a larger animal crop then most countries (cows make lots of methane) As for the nuclear test, the U.S. no longer does them. The U.S. is not concerned about the environmental effects of North Korean Nuclear tests as it is about the weapons getting into the hands of terrorist. The government of North Korea is not a very stable government, run by a dictator, and the U.S. is afraid that they may use the weapon as a way to hurt South Korea, Japan, China, or other Asian countries. At this point, they are not afraid of North Korea hurting the U.S. which is why they are trying to talk to North Korea not using a military solution. (which most likely would not work anyway without China's support). \nYes America is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases, and President Bush did back out of the Kimono agreement, but hopefully soon we will elect someone with more concern about the environment.
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The pH of acid rain can be anything less than the pH of normal rain, which actually tends to be around 5-6 (rather than 7 as you might expect).  There's no magic pH at which it becomes acid rain; it just depends on how much acid is around.  Sometimes the pH can be as low as 2, or even 1, other times it will be more like 3 or 4, it really just depends how much pollution there is.  If you want us to find the concentration of H+ in the acid rain, you have to tell us what pH you're thinking of!\n\nAs for the coffee thing, you should be able to figure that out yourself for any given pH using the formula pH = -log[H+] and solving for [H+].
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It all depends on the area where you live. Like people in Florida would benefit most from Solar energy. People living near dams would benefit more form water energy. Wind energy would benefit people who live in the mountains. It all has to do with the geography of the land. But dealing with fuel options... I'm stumped!
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Exactly none. There is a finite amount of energy stored on the planet in the form of fossil fuels. Burning it releases this energy. You cannot add more. There has been heat RELEASED by the burning of fossil fuels onthe planet, which many people believe causes global warming. The only heat energy added to the planet is solar energy.
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Are you talking molecular level or physical process?\n\nWater is the bond between Hydrogen+ and two Oxygen- formulating H2O.\n\nWater as in the rain.  Evaporation is the water droplets from the sun heating up the water rising to the sky, also the plants perspire its water from the heating of the sun and rises to the sky, then condensation is the cooling of the droplets and condensing, weighs down the cloud with concentrated & heavier droplets and precipitation is the actually rain droplets falling to Earth.\n\nThe chemical process of cleaning the water to drink is the earthly cycle, but you want to go with human cleaning is the introduction of a sanitizing and killing bacteria in the water with chlorine and making it supposedly healthy with fluoride.  And a bunch of supposed microfilters to catch debris and bacteria.  Heating the water also helps clean it a little.
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USA is having hte maximum access to the energy. Next one is CHINA
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Methinks.  Everything has a drawback no matter what - even wind and solar do.  Radioactivity is not caused by humans - the stuff came from the ground in the first place all we are doing in concentrating it.  The waste is a problem - yes - but Japan has had breeder reactors for years which not only eat up the plutonium which used to be waste but create even more energy in the process.  \nThe US currently uses 17 million barrels a day of crude.  The world uses about 84 million barrels.  Estimates of reserves vary widely - anywhere from 600 billion to 10 trillion barrels, which would last between 20 and 300 years at the rate we are using it, and we have probably 500 years worth of coal in the ground too, but it can't last forever.
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acid deposition, form of precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, or hail) containing high levels of sulfuric or nitric acids (pH below 5.5—5.6). Produced when sulfur dioxide and various nitrogen oxides combine with atmospheric moisture, acid rain can contaminate drinking water, damage vegetation and aquatic life, and erode buildings and monuments. Automobile exhausts and the burning of high-sulfur industrial fuels are thought to be the main causes, but natural sources, such as volcanic gases and forest fires, may also be significant. It has been an increasingly serious problem since the 1950s, particularly in the NE United States, Canada, and W Europe, especially Scandinavia.
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Sun has a nuclear reaction (fission of Hydrogen gas)to radiate energy. Theoratically as much as Hydrogen is being used in the process of energy production the net quantity of hydrogen is being reduced and so net amount of reacting atoms is decreasing. Thus energy of sun is being reduced. However, the rate of decrease in the active mass is so slow that it can not be measured in course of few centuries.\n\nThe much referred worming of air or global worming, as replied here by one other, is due to increasing pollution of air or green effect.