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Alice Ren Emma Monaghan Jeremy Wong Gene Quillin Jack Murphy Wenny Lan - Biofuel

Tidal Power: Tidal power is one of the most least used renewable sources of energy.

Renewable Petroleum-A crude oil that naturally occurs. || Sustainable, Cost Effective, Environmentally Friendly
 * Name and Resource || Advantages || Challenges ||
 * Emma-Geothermal Energy-Energy and heat retrieved from underground water which is heated by the earth's core

Variety of uses including pharmaceuticals, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics || Generally only widely available on tectonic plate borders

Non-renewable, the cause of many environmental issues like damage from oil spills, and damaging oil extraction, highly flammable || John-Patrick || Renewable, produces no greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane), perfect energy source for locations with at least 1.5 MW of wind speed, low maintanence required. || Wind farms take up a lot of space, and creating space to build these farms tend to cause other environmental issues. Expensive to build, as the top wind-power using countries are mostly affluent nations. Aesthetically, not very welcoming; also wind farms can be loud. ||
 * Ethanol || Organic, cleaner than gasoline, fewer toxic emissions, reduced dependence on imported oil, || Crop restrction, expensive, labour intensity increased (corn), corrosive, not as fuel efficient as gas, ||
 * Tidal and Wave- Gene || Renewable, Open Ocean Turbines have little negative impact, certain models completely cost effective. || Technology still developing, precise locations neccesary, depending on the location and organization of the dam (if a dam is used) can have negative effects on the ecosystem ||
 * Biofuel - Wenny || Reduce carbon dioxide emissions, more cost efficient than fuel for vehicles, easy to produce since it is obtained from plants. || Production of biofuels is not completely carbon-neutral since growing plants emit carbon dioxide, adapting more land to produce crops for biofuel may lead to biodiversity loss, biofuels may become more lucrative for farmers so as time goes on, they may want to produce crops for biofuel purposes instead of for civilization ||
 * Wind power
 * Hydropower - Alice Ren || As water "reproduces" itself through the water cycle, it is likely to never run out. Hydopower also has little waste products such as the greenhouse gases most other energy sources often involve. The energy it produces is also inexpensive and clean. || Hydoelectric power production requires flooding of entire valleys and living areas. It also disrupts the natural seasonal changes of the river, and ecosystems could be destroyed. The powerplant is also extremely expensive to build, and the power produced in the end may be much less than expected in the case of a drought. ||