Tuesday, April 24, 2012
What Is Brown Power? by Green Yatra
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Electricity that is generated from the
combustion of fossil fuels, which generates significant amounts of
anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Brown power sources include coal, oil, and
natural gas, which is also called Brown Energy. Brown power is power generated from
environmentally hostile technology. The vast majority of electricity in the
United States comes from coal, nuclear, large hydro, and natural gas
plants.
Brown power
generators are:
§ The single greatest source of
air pollution in the United States, contributing to both smog
and acid rain.
§ The greatest single
contributor of global climate change gases including carbon dioxide
and nitrogen oxide.
Consider these
additional facts:
The average California
household's annual use of electricity produces the same amount of smog the
average car would generate if driven across the country from
Los Angeles to New York City, and about the same amount of global
warming-causing carbon dioxide if that same car was driven a third of the
way around the world.
It is estimated that 50,000 people in the
United States die each year from heart and lung disease due to air
pollution linked to the burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity
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