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Article #13: What You Should Know Green Energy

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Green energy refers to the use of power only energy source for 1000 households.
that is not only more efficient than Many countries now offer household and
fossil fuel but that is friendly to the commercial consumers to opt for total use
environment as well. Green energy is of green energy. They do this one of two
generally defined as energy sources that ways. Consumers can buy their electricity
dont pollute and are renewable. from a company that only uses renewable
There are several categories of green green energy technology, or they can buy
energy. They are anaerobic digestion, from their general supplies such as the
wind power, geothermal power, hydropower local utility company who then buys from
on a small scale, biomass power, solar green energy resources only as much of a
power and wave power. Waste incineration supply as consumers pay for.
can even be a source of green energy. The latter is generally a more cost -
Nuclear power plants claim that they efficient way of supplying a home or
produce green energy as well, though this office with green energy, as the supplier
source is fraught with controversy, as we can reap the economic benefits of a mass
all know. While nuclear energy may be purchase. Green energy generally costs
sustainable, may be considered renewable more per kilowatt hour than standard
and does not pollute the atmosphere while fossil fuel energy.
it is producing energy, its waste does Consumers can also purchase green energy
pollute the biosphere as it is released. certificates, which are alternately
The transport, mining and phases before referred to as green tags or green
and after production of nuclear energy certificates. These are available in both
does produce and release carbon dioxide Europe and the United States, and are the
and similar destructive greenhouse gases. most convenient method for the average
When we read of green energy, therefore, consumer to support green energy. More
we rarely see nuclear power included. than 35 million European households and
Those who support nuclear energy say that one million American households now buy
nuclear waste is not, in fact, released these green energy certificates.
into our earths biosphere during its While green energy is a great step in the
normal production cycle. They stress as direction of keeping our environment
well that the carbon dioxide that nuclear healthy and our air as pollutant free as
energy production releases is comparable, possible, it must be noted that no matter
in terms of each kilowatt hour of what the energy, it will negatively
electricity, to such sources of green impact the environment to some extent.
energy as wind power. Every energy source, green or otherwise,
As an example of the green energy requires energy. The production of this
production the average wind turbine, such energy will create pollution during its
as the one in Reading England, can manufacture. Green energys impact is
produce enough energy daily to be the minimal, however.






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