The toxic waste can be managed by treating it well and burying it underground. Also new technology has made it possible to run Nuclear Power plants with thorium. To use thorium the Nuclear Power Plant needs to be driven on the Accelerator Driven System. This system may have a large price tag but it will pay itself back within fifty years or so. Thorium compared to Uranium creates less toxic waste and also unlike Plutonium (the by-product of uranium) the toxic waste created by Thorium will only takes 500 years to be declared safe.
Because of the plates, the Earth’s crust is in continuous motion, but without plate tectonics to dissipate the heat in the core, Venus undergoes a different process where the mantle will heat up to the point where the crust is weakened. The planet then goes through a period of subduction over approximately 100 million years where the entire surface is recycled. This means that the surface of Venus is much older than Earth’s surface, and this in turn supports a much higher number of volcanoes, which have shaped much of the surface. Venus also has considerably less erosion from wind compared with earth so many of the volcanoes are in great condition. There is compelling evidence for past and present water on Mars.
Even tho hydrofracking can help us in New York out by a little we should also look at the side effects. Yea we can get substitudes for coal & gas, employ the unemployed, and we can finally get natural gas ourselves but we can also be effecting the human race. People can get sick. Hydrofracking contaminates water that we drink from and animals live in. It also releases large amounts of methane which is considered an earth warming gas.
Carbon dioxide is an significant contributor to the enhanced greenhouse effect. It can result in trapping more of the heat that Earth is radiating into space and cause detrimental climate changes and rising sea levels. The main concern regarding the combustion of organic compounds is the result of incomplete combustion. Incomplete combustion occurs when there is not enough oxygen to completely burn the fuel to carbon dioxide and water, causing pollution and fuel inefficiency. For example: Pentane reacts with little oxygen to form
The black shirt would also fade over time because the suns rays would eat up the shirt. #2 Question: Which method of heat transfer describes vertical circulation of a fluid as in Hadley Cell? Correct Answer: C) My Answer: A) Why it’s Wrong: Convection, Because of the circulation in the Hadley cell, two pressure belts are created. The first is a belt of semi permanent high pressure that results from the sinking air at 30°. This belt of high pressure is called the subtropical ridge.
If ice did not float, our planet would experience runaway freezing. Other properties of water include its solvency, cohesiveness, adhesiveness and other thermal properties. -EARTHS ATMOSPHERE- If there was too much of just one of the many gases which make up our atmosphere; our planet would suffer a runaway greenhouse effect. On the other hand, if there were not enough of these gases, life on this planet would be devastated by cosmic radiation. -EARTHS REFLECTIVITY- If Earths albedo was much greater than it is now we would experience runaway freezing.
B) Greenhouse gases prevent heat from leaving the earth. C) If the level of greenhouse gases increases, the temperature will decrease. D) Some greenhouses gases are needed to keep the proper temperature balance. E) none of the above 3) Which of the following is TRUE? A) Stoichiometry allows prediction of the amounts of products that form in a chemical reaction based on the amounts of reactants.
The use of chemicals in the hydrofracking process and the energy needed to operate the trucks and drills, critics say, offset the low carbon emissions from the burning of natural gas, making it no better than oil or coal. Furthermore, opponents contend, pollutants left behind at hydrofracking drilling sites could seep out from closed pipes and wells, posing a danger to public health for generations. Therefore, critics say, the federal government must step in to institute stricter regulations than the states have already
Methane is a more active green house gas than CO2 but is less abundant in the atmosphere. Nitrous Oxide is a strong greenhouse gas produced by soil cultivation with the use of commercial and organic fertilizers and fossil fuel combustion. Finally Chlorofluorocarbons are synthetic compounds of industrial origin that are used for the destruction of the ozone
With the burning of extremely harmful greenhouse gases, we could stand to solve this problem by doing what we already do to pollute our own planet, just in a much more helpful scale. The dust storms that plague the surface of Mars are another topic to consider. While a storm is usually just a temporary headache, dust storms on Mars are quite common and strong, and further limit solar power to the surface. The largest of these storms can cover much of the entire surface of the planet and commonly last for months at a time. With habitation, this could also be lessened, but constantly having buildings and equipment destroyed would be something that would have to be addressed properly and some sort of working solution be implemented before any sort of progress could