... . These impacts include global warming, air quality deterioration, oil spills, and acid rain. Among the gases emitted when fossil fuels are burned, one of the most significant is carbon dioxide. This gas helps trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. During the last 150 years, burning fossil fuels has resulted in more than a 25 percent increase in the amount of ... carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. (1992 Energy Technology Status Report, n. pag.) Clean air is essential to life and good health. Several important pollutants are produced by fossil fuel combustion: carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide...

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... the expansion of electrical service. Contemporary hydroelectric power plants generate enough energy to supply a single residence, up to a large city. Hydroelectric power plants don't emit atmospheric pollutants such as carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide, given off by fossil fuel power plants. They also do not contribute to global warming or acid rain, associated with burning coal, oil, or natural gas. They also don ... ...

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... generators. The wind is neither steady enough nor powerful enough. Coal: Power plants that generate energy by coal are the single largest source of NOx (nitrogen oxides), SO2 (sulfur dioxide), and CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions. These emissions cause effects ranging from a 40% increase in the chance of an asthma attacks to the destruction of the Ozone and Acid rain, not to mention depletion ... ...

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... . Beginning in 1998, many new American automobiles have been built so that they can burn gasohol. Gasohol is a mixture of gasoline and alcohol (mostly methanol or ethanol). Although emissions of carbon dioxide cannot be reduced, many other pollutants are reduced, and gasoline is also conserved. Unfortunately, this fuel is much more expensive, so therefore is not seen readily on markets. Another alternative ... oxygen will produce no pollutants. The only exhaust is water. In 2002, Toyota released the first hydrogen powered car. The hydrogen is stored under high pressure in vessels made of...

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... , animals or the natural environment, as it does not emit any green house gases (Whitburn). Power plants that use fuel to generate electricity produce tons of pollution as they release carbon dioxide into the air. As opposed to other forms of energy sources, solar panels that absorb the sun's rays operate by capturing sunlight, which means no waste products are produced as ... ...

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