SOLAR ELECTRICITY
A PRIMER FOR KIDS
Using the sunlight to make electricity. |
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More About Air Pollution How Does Electricity Generation Affect the Environment?...The Environmental Protection Agency answers the question for each of these power-producing technologies: Natural Gas, Coal, Oil, Nuclear Energy, Municipal Solid Waste, Hydroelectricity, Non-Hydroelectric Renewable Energy How Clean Is the Energy I Use?...use the Environmental Protection Agency's Power Profiler to find out. AIRNOW...find out your location's current and future air quality (from the Environmental Protection Agency) Pollution Sources: Electricity Generation...described by Environment Canada Air Pollution and Health...from the American Academy of Family Physicians |