Is Hydro electricity a Renewable energy?

Question by festivedragon: Is Hydro electricity a Renewable energy?
Many in the energy community on the west coast of the USA and the world feel that Hydro electric power in its current form is a non-renewable energy source. They feel this way because how we currently make hydro power is a non-sustainable way of making power and a to be renewable you have to be sustainable. What do you think?

Best answer:

Answer by Oiler
There are new hydro technologies which are clearly renewable and sustainable.

Among them are systems designed to capture tidal flows and wave action in coastal areas. These will continue to create energy as long as there are oceans on the planet. The hydroelectric plants on the Niagara River in New York are certainly renewable, since the water flows constantly and does not require man's input to do so.

What do you think? Answer below!

using a vegetable oil fueled car to charge batteries for electricity in the cottage

Some cool vegetable oil fuel images:

using a vegetable oil fueled car to charge batteries for electricity in the cottage


Image by Shira Golding

Vegetable oil


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Photo of a plastic bottle of vegetable oil, store brand, for a story on how increased gas prices cause a run on cheaper vegetable oil for fuel.

Photo by Branko Collin.

www.24oranges.nl/2008/06/26/run-on-vegetable-oil-now-dies...

Straight vegetable oil filter


Image by richardmasoner
Mark with his used fry oil filter system. He gets the fry oil from the Mexican restaurant just three blocks away and uses the oil to fuel is diesel Mercedes.

Hydroelectic Power – How it Works

How hydroelectric generating stations produce electricity.

10 Ways To Save Energy And Save Money On Your Electricity Bills For Your Home

10 Ways To Save Energy And Save Money On Your Electricity Bills For Your Home

There are several different ways you can save energy on your home electricity usage which will also reduces the money you spend on your electricity bills and helps reduce carbon emissions to the environment. Here is a list of the things you can do:

1. If your washing machine has an economy setting, then use that instead of the normal setting.

2. Did you know that when an electrical item is on standby that it uses 70% of the electricity that it uses as compared to when it is switched on? Think about all the electrical items you have on standby around your home, if you switch them off instead of putting them on standby you can save a fair bit off your electricity bill each year.

3. If it is possible, move your fridge a few inches away from the wall as this will make it operate more efficiently and save you money.

4. Remember to switch the lights off each time you leave a room.

5. If you have a desktop or laptop computer, you can use the power saving feature which will switch off your monitor after you have been away from your computer for a few minutes. As well as saving money and energy, this will also mean that your computer monitor will last longer.

6. To save up to 10% of your electrical bill, choose to pay by direct debit instead of by paying by cheque or cash at the bank.

7. You may be able to save up to 25% off your electricity bill by switching to another cheaper electricity provider. This is quite straight forward to do and will most likely be the biggest electricity cash saving move you can make. If you have already done this move once before in the past, then you may still be able to save a further 10% to 15% by shopping around again.

8. It is not always the case that having your electricity and gas provided by one supplier is the cheapest way to go. If you look at other suppliers you may find it will work out cheaper to have electricity from one supplier and your gas supply from another.

9. Do not leave electrical items on around the house when you are not using them.

10. Fit energy saving light bulbs around your house which whilst they are more expensive than normal light bulbs, they will last a lot, lot longer.

So as you can see most of the things you can do to save energy and money on your electricity usage are fairly simple, easy to do, you can choose to do some of them or all of them and it really will make a difference to your electricity usage and bills over the years.

Magniwork Generator Plans

Copies of the Magniwork generator plans ebooks are selling like crazy right now. Both on the internet and on Ebay. I can see why. After all they are advertising a way for you to generate your own electricity and never have to pay the power company again.

So is it for real or is this just some people trying to make money off of promises that they can't keep. They have some really encouraging videos on their site that sure makes it look like it could be for real.

Initially I thought I was going to go ahead and buy the book and start experimenting myself like I did with the Water4Gas stuff. Unfortunately I am not even going to make it that far on this one. My initial research has already convinced me that there is not even enough here to make it fun to play with.

If you want to know if it is for real then all you have to do is go to ebay and try to buy one. Trust me, if people could build these then they would be all over ebay by now. I know if I could build them then I would certainly start trying to sell them for a profit. Unfortunately all you are going to find is more books for sale and no generators.

If you remember with the HHO fuel stuff you can buy all of the items for that on Ebay. People make them for you and sell them to make a profit on it. This way at least saves you some time while you are finding out that it does not work.

The plans for these generators are apparently difficult enough that people are not even making it that far. I would definitely say do not waste your money buying these books.

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