Geography 2143A/B Lecture Notes - Solar Power By Country, Fuel Cell, Substitute Natural Gas
27 Mar 2014
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Nuclear energy can be considered as a renewable or non-renewable. No shortage of uranium in that sense, it"s renewable. From technical perspective, there is a limited amount of uranium on earth (a lot of it in. Nuclear seems to be losing its forward motion as a source of electrical generation because of japan"s earthquake. Germany immediately took its nuclear plants offline after the japanese earthquake a few years ago. Coal has been the dominant source for energy for the last 100 years. Coal"s contribution in energy in developed world will decline as the substitute natural gas and to a small degree renewable sources. Coal is most cost-effective form of energy in electrical production. World scale: coal continues to be important (by 2030) Nuclear not going to be a major contributor to generation growth. Expensive both as startup procedure and as a continuing maintenance problem. Concern that the fuel in reactor can be used as nuclear weapons.
