Energy Sources: Electricity and its Environmental Effects

Humans have become so dependent on electricity; society's evolution to a great extent has been based on it. Without computers, lights, most methods of transportation and communication, the last hundred years of progress could be set back. Thus electricity could easily be considered man's greatest discovery, it is also generated in such a way that is seriously damaging to the environment. <Tab/>Oddly enough some of the most commonly used, non-renewable …

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