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What energy resources do you currently rely on in your everyday life? List and discuss at least three energy resources being utilized in your regular routine. Be sure to consider the energy that you use at home, during travel and at work or school. What are the origins of the energy sources? Are they renewable or non renewable?

What impacts have been observed on both humans and the environment as a result of increasing energy needs and use? Be sure to discuss both short term and long term impacts.

If you were to seek a new energy resource for your home, what would you choose? List specific reasons to justify your choice of an alternative energy resource? What challenges do you anticipate in implementing energy resource?

How can simple changes make a big impact? Discuss three ways to conserve energy in your routine life. Consider home, work, transportation, and consumption of food and goods. Include supporting evidence from documented sources on how these methods for conserving energy will help reduce overall consumption of energy.

The first energy resource would be Nuclear Energy. I use electric every day, we all do. We turn on lights, use heat or air conditioning. We also watch television listen to music or charging our cell phones and computers. We have to have electric to do that. This source of energy is renewable. The Origin of Nuclear Energy comes from power plants all over the U.S. "Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6 percent of the world's energy and 13–14 percent of the world's electricity". (Nuclear)

The second resource would be Solar Energy. Some batteries, like watch batteries are solar powered, so are calculators that we need for our jobs and schoolwork. Our food source is also an example of solar energy since

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