Energy Essays

At the start of the year’s University Physics 1 degree course, the Physics Professor looked at the motley crew filling the lecture theatre. He knew some students were destined to survive, while others would drop-out. In a rather callous way, the professor wrote-off the previous twelve years of the students’ …

Basal Metabolic Rate: History, Composition, Regulation, and Usefulness A. J. Hulbert1,2,* P. L. Else1,3 1 Metabolic Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia; 2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia; 3Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South …

In middle school your child will be learning all about heat energy and temperature measurement, and will likely get to use a lab thermometer. This project will enable your child to construct a homemade thermometer that will compliment what he’s learning about this instrument in school. What You Need: * …

INTRODUCTION Solar energy, radiant light and heat from the sun, is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, solar photovoltaics, solar thermal electricity, solar architecture and artificial photosynthesis.[1][2] Solar technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they capture, …

Introduction The employment of alternative energy has become an important issue in the current world because other forms of energy have caused significant harm to the environment because of emission of dangerous impurities. Some policy makers suggest the use of fossils, natural sources or energy while others suggest the use …

Introduction Public utilities are required to comply with regulations whether at state level or at municipal level. Those who support a deregulated utility system argue that it increases market power, enhance competition and bring market stabilization. As a result of the introduction of holding companies policy, private utilities have come …

Growth of populations and expectations of rising living standards indicate that the use of energy in the currently developing world will pass and rapidly outstrip that of the industrial world of today. Source depletion and environmental impact will depend on the way the energy ratio of the rising economies develops. …

Mousetrap car is a very good illustration of conversion of energy. The energy for moving the car comes from the mouse trap. It is stored as spring potential energy. This is finally converted to kinetic energy of the moving car. Building the mouse trap car is about converting the potential …

Introduction Problem Statement             In such normal conditions, nuclear reactors are most of the time kept under a critical mass. Propagating nuclear reaction only emerges when the minimum threshold content capacity of nuclear material is reached, which usually occurs with the significant presence of a fissile material known as uranium-235 …

In ancient times wind energy was used for mills which shows that people were aware of the power of wind energy. As explained in the article “Advantages of Wind Energy” the wind mills are still being used as the best way to solve the energy problem leading which all the …