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ch 19 ?’s

March 26th, 2006 · No Comments
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  1. Energy is capacity to do work. Power is rate of doing work.

  

  1. Fossil fuels, petroleum, coal, and natural gas. Because it shows biomass because the fuels are gathered by the people who use them.

  

  1. In the U.S. a person consumes on average almost in a single day as a person on a foreign poor country does in a year.

  

  1. Coal seams can be 100 m thick and extend across tens of thousands of square kilometers that are in vast swampy forests in prehistoric times. 4 trillion barrels of oil is in the world mostly found in Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf countries.

  

  1. Because of the contaminates that are left in the air after these fuels have been burned, because of the consequences if something explodes or because of how much there is left because sooner or later its all going to be gone.

  

7.Petelst are stacked into hallow rods about 100 of these rods make up a fuel assembly, when struck by high energy they undergo nuclear fission which creates a chain reaction.

  

9.good is because they produce fuel rather then consume it, bad because ethey must be at a very high density for then breeding reaction to occur.

  

10.High-level waste repositories

  

 

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