EarthDayEnergyFast.org
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Earth Day Energy Fast
Description
Energy comes from the sun. Energy comes from the wind. Energy comes from the waves. Energy comes from burning things. Almost all energy used by human beings throughout our existence on planet Earth has come from burning things. In modern society we burn coal for most of our electricity generation. Natural gas and oil-derived products provide most of our other energy needs. In Japan and France, nuclear energy provides substantial amounts of power. A small percentage of energy comes from hydropower - dammed rivers or elevated lakes with water flowing through electricity-generating turbines; some hydropower comes from steam made by volcanic-related activity. Wind power generation and solar power generation are now more viable than ever and new technology has improved their output tremendously. Other forms of energy include biomass (burning biological material), and cogeneration (deriving an energy production benefit as a side-effect of energy use, such as a gas-powered manufacturing plant creating excess heat to power turbine generators which put electricity back on the grid).
We use fossil fuels including coal, petroleum-derived substances (oil), and natural gas because they were discovered by humans thousands (or possibly tens of thousands) of years ago as the next best thing to burning wood to make fire. Humans experimented over time and discovered that through refining these raw materials we could create stable and long-lasting fuel sources (such as kerosene) for our heating, lighting, cooking and to run our machines. Coal is the most abundant and oil the next most abundant, and extracting these substances from the ground could be done with low technology. Large energy companies came into being as Industrialization swept the world starting 150 years ago and the economic forces which these companies have historically brought to bear on politicians and business people has in large part manipulated the political process - keeping less polluting or non-polluting energy sources from coming to market to compete with fossil fuels.
In addition to our industrial use of energy to manufacture products and other functions and uses, we use energy to stay warm and to stay cool. We use energy for transportation, to get around in cars, on planes, buses, subways, trains, etc. We use energy to prepare our food, to freeze it for storage and shipping, for cooking, and a whole host of other food-handling procedures. We use energy to light our homes and offices, to light our streets and runways for airplanes, for security lighting, for Intellibeams at rave concerts. We use energy to transport our water from its sources to the cities in which most of us live, to pump it along when gravity is not used for this, to treat it so that it is safe to drink. We use energy for communicating via telephones, fax machines, email computer messages, cell phones, satellite relays, etc. Lastly, we use energy to power our entertainments, from television to movies to videogames to DVDs and CD's to children's games to portable Discmans.
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- Earth Day Energy Fast
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- Los Angeles CA
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