Renewable resources in Alberta include the many resources within the country that could be used to produce energy for consumption in the country. This forms of renewable sources include water, wind, sun and geothermal form to produce energy that would be converted to various forms for further use. These forms of energy were adapted to ensure that there are no ways in which the environment is polluted by use of alternative methods such as natural gas, trees or fossil fuels. The government of Canada launched the program to harness all the energy going to waste and convert it to Electric energy which is said to increase the amount of electricity with about 5000 megawatts and this will be able to support over 200,000 homes if well harnessed. There are both qualitative and quantitative efficiencies; as the transformations of energy as it is converted from one form to another or from one device to another and such energy could be very useful in various aspects of the thermodynamics world.
According to the thermodynamics laws, thermal energy, can be converted into the various form to produce light of heat in other scenarios. The form of energy input within a device or a system may not actually be very useful, but within the device, the input energy will be converted to produce output energy which is the quality energy that is needed to be produced. Devices that convert energy from one form to another are usually designed in a way that not so much energy is used during the conversion and the best quality of the output energy is produced. The first and second laws of thermodynamics have greatly changed the understanding of the world of energy conversions. The first law (law of conversion of energy) which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed has changed people's perspective (Hilbert et al., 2014). This simply means that if energy cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only be converted from one form to another hence no one in the world has tried of finding any new ways of creating or destroying all the energy, hence only harnessing the extra energy emitted by the earth is the only option. The second law states that the entropy of an isolated system will always increase. Meaning that the energy builds up within the systems will always increase and never decrease hence energy produced will always build up within the system, if the energy is not converted to other forms, the entropy of the system will build up while the devices entropy will decrease.
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There are limitations when it comes to conversion of potential energy to other forms of energy such as kinetic energy. In technological devices, the input energy will not be the same as the output energy, this is because there is a limit of energy that can be input and there a limit to which the technology device can output the energy. For fuels, such as chemical energy and electric energy, the devices useful quality would be between 20%-80% because not all the energy input would be the energy output, some of the energy would be used in the conversion process. Quantitatively, the measure of useful work produced during the conversion of potential energy would mean that as long as the conversion process of the energy from one form to another is very crucial, so is the efficiency process of the device (Rosen et al., 2008). A devices efficiency can be derived by getting the useful energy output over the Energy that was input. The efficient of devices vary from one device to another hence cannot be measured in the same ways as the qualitative usefulness of the device. The efficiency of a device is always low as compared to the efficiency of the individual components if the device.
A thermal device is usually designed in such a way that the conversion of thermal energy to other forms of energy becomes quite easy. For instance, an energy input within a device designed to produce heat or light may vary, the device uses concepts to ensure that the quality of the energy produced is almost as high as 80 % but the quantity which may be heat or light is quite high as well though it cannot be compared to the qualitative efficiency. The devices are well equipped with necessary individual component to ensure that the energy conversion process is quite successful, for example, the electric motor is well designed in a way that, electricity is the energy input within the device, the individual components within the device will convert the electric energy and the final energy output would be in form of mechanical energy to run the motor. The devices utilize the 1st and 2nd thermodynamic laws while ensuring that the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the form of energy are well respected ("The Laws of Thermodynamics | Boundless Chemistry", 2018).
When the energy conversion processes from the renewable resources are all undertaken; it means that there would be less energy loss within the conversion devices which would mean that there more output energy would be used for other useful works. Suppose the conversion processes lost a lot of energy, it would mean that alternative sources of energy would be the only solution to supplement the shortage of sources of energy which would indicate that the environment would once again be at a very high risk of pollution. Practices such as fuel mining and natural gas harvesting have had a lot of negative impact on the environment leaving the place inhabitable by human beings hence very useless. The use of trees to produce charcoal and firewood would lead to deforestation increase the rate of global warming. It is important that the energy conversion devices are well designed to ensure that there are minimal energy losses during the conversion process in order to protect the environment.
The laws of thermodynamics have greatly influenced the ways in which energy has been harnessed and converted in Canada. If the conversion of thermal energy to electrical energy in Canada is quite successful, it would mean the country would not need alternative sources of energy to supplement the thermal energy. All this would be made possible by the fact that the devices used in the conversion processes observe the thermodynamics laws and are well designed in a way that there is highly qualitative and quantitative efficiency to ensure that there is less energy loss. If the devices are designed with concepts adapted to the efficiency targets it would be quite easy to convert the energy into other works. This would reduce the rate at which alternative sources of energy are used within the country, it would make life easier for the residents of Alberta as they will have maximum electric energy which they may convert to forms of energy for their own benefits.
References
Hilbert, S., Hänggi, P., & Dunkel, J. (2014). Thermodynamic laws in isolated systems. Physical Review E, 90(6), 062116.
Rosen, M. A., Dincer, I., & Kanoglu, M. (2008). Role of energy in increasing efficiency and sustainability and reducing environmental impact. Energy policy, 36(1), 128-137.
The Laws of Thermodynamics | Boundless Chemistry. (2018). Retrieved from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-chemistry/chapter/the-laws-of-thermodynamics
