Is Electricity A Renewable Or Non Renewable Source?
Electricity is one of those byproducts you get whenever Energy is expended (used up). So the answer to your question lies in HOW did you expend the energy? In all Electrical Generating Plants, turbine blades rotate a generator producing a magnetic field. The magnetic field created, excites electrons in a copper coil of wires built around the turbine’s generator. These excited electrons are transmitted out of the generating plant as electricity. There are 4 ways to turn that turbine. You can heat water and let the expanded gas turn the turbine. This will produce 55 percent more energy than the final method. Water is headed by using Coal, Natural Gas or Nuclear Energy. Nuclear Energy comes from allowing Uranium to deteriorate at a given rate determined by the Power Plant operator. Creating electricity in this manner is the most common way and is NOT renewable. Once the source is depleted, more must be obtained. The 4th method is called Hydroelectric Generation. Water falls over a dam to
