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■ Any nuclear power plant generates...

■ To assess the benefits of alternative sources of energy...

■ A lot of people strongly oppose...

■ The idea to get energy from...

■ The obvious advantages of nuclear energy are...

■ As for certain disadvantages of...

■ Nowadays our duty is...

>... multiple energy-related challenges of today...

>...the world's electricity production percentage...

>...both advocate and strongly oppose...

>...no emission of harmful gases...

>...dangerous radioactive wastes...

>...the most economically feasible sources of energy...

>...if there is a chance to find...

Ø The water steam makes the huge turbine spin and generate elec­tricity. It is the water steam which makes the huge turbine spin and generate electricity.

Ø The only difference is coal and oil to be used. The difference is only coal and oil to be used.

Ø People still have to work hard to make life really safe. To make life reallу safe people still have to work hard. People have to work hard to make life still.

'Europeans had lived in the midst of vast forests throughout the earlier medieval centuries. After 1250 AD they became so skilled at deforesta- tion that by 1500 AD they were running short of wood for healing and cooking... By 1500 AD Europe was on the edge of a fuel arid nutritional* disaster, which was saved in the 16^th century only by the burning of soft coal and the cultivation of potatoes and maize'.(Norman F. Cantor, his­torian)

*Nutrition is the process of giving or getting the right kind of food for good health and growth. (440 п.зн.)

tradition, motivation, aspect, emission, effect, flora, fauna, atom, de­structive, solar, percent, panel, absorb, silicon, constant, separate, ki­netic, automobile, generator, atmosphere, resource.

2. Запомните слова и словосочетания.

3. to diminish — убывать, уменьшаться;

4. devastating — опустошительный, разрушительный;

5. consequences — последствия;

ozone depletion — истончение/уменьшение озонового слоя;

irreversible — необратимый;

destructive effect— разрушительный эффект/влияние;

to implement — выполнять, осуществлять;

flora and fauna — флора и фауна;

affordable — возможный, допустимый, по средствам;

combustion — горение, возгорание, сжигание;

to suffer — страдать, испытывать, претерпевать;

to adapt— приспосабливать, прилаживать.

6. Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Alternative Energy Sources

[A traditional fuel problem as a great development impulse is that natural resources of fossil fuels are rapidly diminishing.]⁰

Another aspect is the devastating effect on the environment. [Hu­manity has already faced serious negative consequences of thought­less use of non-renewable natural resources: global warming and ozone depletion caused by the vast emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) as well as air, water and soil pollution are only several exam­ples of irreversible changes and destructive environmental effects.]⁰

People seem to have realized their mistakes, new sources of energy being developed and implemented around the world. [Modern alterna­tive energy sources are renewable, eco-friendly, and safe not only for humans but for flora and fauna as well.]⁰

Solar power is captured by solar panels which change sunlight into electrical energy. Being renewable the very energy costs nothing but isn't constant. It can be reaped only during daytime and only fifty per­cent of it can be converted into electricity.

Wind is perfect because of its kinetic energy. Wind energy harve­sters work easily and can be set up anywhere. The source of energy is

clean and renewable with no greenhouse gas contribution but compa­ratively slow.

Water has been generating energy for ages. Hydroelectricity gen­erated by damming rivers and is quite affordable.

Hydrogen is eco-friendly and much safer than petrol. Electric cur­rent is passed through water to separate hydrogen from oxygen. The resulting gas (hydrogen) is then stored in pressurized tanks.

Geothermal energy is produced by thermal water heated naturally under the earth to generate steam which runs turbines.

Bio-fuel is produced from plants (ethanol) or animals (methane from animal excrement). The process used for obtaining bio-fuel is usually combustion. It is completely renewable.

[The best way to help our suffering planet is to adapt to the alter­native energy sources, they being limitless and ecologically clean.]⁰

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