how does using too much electricity contribute to global warming?

Answer 1

it does not its just the tree huggers thinks it does

Answer 2

Any electrical driven device has an efficiency rating of less than one. Therefore the output power of a device is always less than the input power of a device. That difference in power is dissipated in heat and wasted. If heat sources on earth contributes to global warming then the use of any electrical power whether it is too much or just what we need contributes to global warming. Probably the biggest cause would be the pollution emitted from the electricity generators. This pollution helps break down the heat insulation between the sun and the earth. Of course more electricity used causes more pollution released. That lowers the heat insulation between the sun and earth and allows more of the suns heat to reach the earth which increases global warming.

Answer 3

Golly, Wilbur! Lots of ways. . .

When people want to start a fire in their fireplace (the smoke from which thickens the insulating layer of insulating hot house gasses surrounding the globe), they often attempt to start said fire in a darkened room.

To see that they are actually starting a fireplace fire rather than starting their HOUSE on fire, they usually turn on the elctric lights.

Wilbur. . . that's only one way.

Many people live in places that do not have sufficient insulation. If these people ALSO have a HEAT PUMP, everytime that heat pump switches on to heat the residence, the heat escapes from the poorly insulated residence and warms the globe immediately.

Again, Wilbur. . . electricity is at the heart of it.

And here is one of the biggest: to keep your CPU from frying itself, an electric fan exhausts ALL of the HOT air out the back of your computer into the sensitive world. If those fans were not electric, this would NOT be a problem.

Answer 4

Most kinds of electrical power generation release gases and other pollutants into the atmosphere. Even if you're on a completely green generation system, power you take from the grid is unavailable elsewhere... and the difference is usually made up with coal-burning plants.

Answer 5

Electric is used in many household items such as air-conditioners and stuff. Air-Cond realeses Carbon Monoxide,thought of as a pollutant today, has always been present in the atmosphere, chiefly as a product of volcanic activity. It occurs dissolved in molten volcanic rock at high pressures in the earth's mantle. Carbon monoxide contents of volcanic gases vary from less than 0.01% to as much as 2% depending on the volcano. It also occurs naturally in bushfires. Because natural sources of carbon monoxide are so variable from year to year, it is extremely difficult to accurately measure natural emissions of the gas.

Carbon monoxide has an indirect radiative forcing effect by elevating concentrations of methane and tropospheric ozone through chemical reactions with other atmospheric constituents (e.g., the hydroxyl radical, OH.) that would otherwise destroy them. Carbon monoxide is created when carbon-containing fuels are burned incompletely. Through natural processes in the atmosphere, it is eventually oxidized to carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide concentrations are both short-lived in the atmosphere and spatially variable.

Anthropogenic CO from automobile and industrial emissions may contribute to the greenhouse effect and global warming. In urban areas carbon monoxide, along with aldehydes, reacts photochemically to produce peroxy radicals. Peroxy radicals react with nitrogen oxide to increase the ratio of NO2 to NO, which reduces the quantity of NO that is available to react with ozone. Carbon monoxide is also a constituent of tobacco smoke.

Answer 6

It is a double whammy. Heat is used to produce electricity at a poor efficiency. When electricity is used, the second law of thermodynamics ensures that all of it becomes heat again. This lack of efficiency at every stage leads to a constant generation of heat, whenever any form of energy is used.

Answer 7

Unless electriciy is made from water power, solar or wind we should't worry about the warming. It is when it is made from fossil fuel does it add to the problem of green house gases. The more we use from fosssil fuels we get problems

Answer 8

to create the electricity in the first place you need energy from coal, nuclear to make the turbines work, less than 5% of energy is from renewable sources like solar, wind, water etc

Answer 9

electricity burns fossil fuels to make it

burning the fossil fuels to make electricity releases carbon into the atmosphere it then sort of clogs up the earths atmosphere and keeps heat rays for the sum trsapped inside of it becoz they cant bounce out agen

Answer 10

because the plants that generate electricity do it mostly by burning coal to turn water into steam which turns turbines and that makes the electricity. burning coal puts soot and sulphur and other wastes into the atmosphere and into the earth. not to mention the energy (diesel fuel) it takes to mine the coal and transport it to the power plant.

Answer 11

Well first you would have to connect the two before you could weigh the contribution.NO ONE knows the full cycle of the earth, the weather,the different layers above and below. we are specks in time and on the planet, how much affect does an ant have on an elephant?