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Sustainable Energy
- Alternative Sources
- Wind
- Turbines: require efficient positioning
- Turbines: require efficient positioning
- Tidal
- Barrages, sluices, turbines, salter duck
- Require 7m tidal range
- Barrages, sluices, turbines, salter duck
- Nuclear
- Safety concerns
- Issues with disposing of used,
but still highly radioactive waste
- Very efficient and cost effective
- Safety concerns
- Biofuel
- Sugar cane
- Ethanol
- Climate requirements
- Brazil
- Ethanol
- Fuelwood
- Requires vast amounts of
land and conservational
techniques of harvest
- Deforestation
- Deforestation
- Requires vast amounts of
land and conservational
techniques of harvest
- Bio-digestors
- Sugar cane
- Solar
- Requires correct location and climate
- Expensive to install - long pay back time
- Requires correct location and climate
- Geothermal
- Wind
- Case Study: Woking Council
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) station
- Hybrolights
- Street lights adapted to be
powered by a combination of
solar and wind power.
- Saves 170kg of carbon emissions
annually per light
- Improves public safety
- Payback period = 2.6 years
- 8 currently installed for testing
- Saves 170kg of carbon emissions
annually per light
- Street lights adapted to be
powered by a combination of
solar and wind power.
- Brockhill's photovoltaic energy source
- Care home covered in photovoltaic panels
- Care home covered in photovoltaic panels
- Albion Square Canopy
- Covers 765m of town centre
- Covered by 35,000 photovoltaic cells
- peak electrical output of 81KWp
- Covered by 35,000 photovoltaic cells
- peak electrical output of 81KWp
- Predicted to save over 41 tonnes
of carbon emissions per year
- Covers 765m of town centre
- LNG Powered Vehicles
- Whole waste
management fleet
powered by LNG
- Reduces gas storage space, lowers pollutant
emissions and cuts noise pollution by 50%
- Reduces gas storage space, lowers pollutant
emissions and cuts noise pollution by 50%
- Whole waste
management fleet
powered by LNG
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) station
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