Geothermal fields produce only about one-sixth of the carbon dioxide that a natural gas fueled power plant produces and extremely small amount of sulfur bearing gases. ... Geothermal power plants meet the most stringent environmental regulations and release little carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas suspected of contributing to global warming. ... Some of them are carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, methane, sodium chloride, boron, arsenic and mercury. ...

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So, by burning biomass fuels we release no more carbon dioxide than would have been produced in any case by natural processes such as crop and plant decay. ... Carbon tax is a form of pollution tax. ... The primary purpose of carbon tax is to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The tax charges a fee on fossil fuels based on how much carbon they emit when burned. A carbon tax is the most efficient means to instill crucial price signals that spur carbon reducing investment. ...

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Yet, as our fossil fuel reserves continue to deplete and our carbon can be a potential solution to the energy crisis we are set to face in the next half of the decade. ... The pursuit of nuclear technology may also be more desirable as it can serve to cut down on our carbon emissions due to the non –polluting nature of nuclear energy. At the turn of the century, carbon emissions have shot up to dangerous levels that can hurt our development. The release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the burning of fossil fuels has led to an increase in global temperat...

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The downside to this operation is that during the combustion stage there is a release of unhealthy gases and solids that will be let out into the atmosphere, increasing air pollution and carbon emission. ... The release of these extra Carbon emissions aside from the ones that occur naturally in the environment upset the balance of the Earth's gases. ... These harmful greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide damage the Ozone Layer of the atmosphere which protects us from harmful radiation being omitted from the sun. ... An efficient fix to these harmful emissions would be switching to al...

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Now along with the pros of nuclear energy and how it affects the environment, the plants do not emit carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, or nitrogen oxides into the ozone, whereas, fossil fuel plants produce a ton of air pollution[Nuc13]. ...

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Alternative energy is energy generated in ways where it does not deplete natural resources or use fossil fuels. The common method of producing energy for the human benefit is burning fossil fuels. Burning fossil fuels emits very high levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases which damage o...

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A recent global concern is about the effects of the nuclear power on the human health, on a side some politicians and scientists think that it does not affect to the human health, however there is evidence that the radiation and nuclear power exposure does affects negatively to the human heal...

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