ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES

Economic, environmental, educational, and health benefits of using Solar Energy.
The Solar Electric Light Fund

A description of how solar cells work from the 'Union of Concerned
Scientists,' including information on how solar energy is harnessed and how
units called photovoltaics help transform light from the sun into a clean
source of power and electricity.
How Solar Cells Work

A great site for a nice visual of how a wind powered turbine/windmill works.
Check out the step by step process for yourself!
Wind Turbines

The Bureau of Land Management's Wind Energy page
Wind Energy Information

The Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership helps
communities make changes to renewable resources and cleaner methods of making
power.
Green Power Partnership

The EPA's Clean Energy Fact Sheet. This site excludes nuclear and
hydroelectric power--but they are still renewable resources. Check this page
out for more information on solar and wind energy, as well as biomass,
landfill gas, and geothermal energy.
EPA Clean Energy Fact Sheet

The EPA also has detailed descriptions on the environmental effects of using
Nuclear Power as an alternate resource.
Effects of Using Nuclear Energy

All about what goes on in nuclear powerplant. See how reactors work and how
powerplants are built to harness nuclear energy from the smallest of places:
atoms.
How Stuff Works' Nuclear Power Plant

How to manage the radioactive waste that is a byproduct of nuclear
powerplants--an essential consideration of nuclear power.
Managing Radioactive Waste

Marin College's Geothermal Energy Office has collected lots of data and put it
all into this easy to understand powerpoint. Certain slides give specific data
on the benefits of Geothermal Energy (slide #65) and the US and world
geothermal statistics (slides 67 and 68)
Geothermal Powerpoint Presentation

How Geothermal Energy power plants work.
How Geothermal Plants Work

The US Department of Energy has some information on fuel cells.
Hydrogren Fuel Cells

The US Department of Energy also has some information on present and future
Hydrogen technologies
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/production/current_technology.html

Check out fueleconomy.gov. Here you can find information on fuel cell
automobile technology.
Fuel Cell Vehicles

An introduction to tidal power including how it is gathered and how it is
used. Some really great animations of the machines necessary to gather the
energy storied in the ocean's tides
Tidal Power

The United Nations has some facts on their Atlas of the Oceans website about
tidal power.
Tidal Energy Information from the UN

EPA specifically giving information on hydroelectric power.
EPA HydroElectric