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RENEWABLE RESOURCES
Renewable resources are resources that are renewed and replaced by natural processes over a reasonable time. There are a lot of renewable resources, things we see in our everyday lives, but we don't really think about them being a resource. Things such as trees. Everyone has trees, and trees are a really huge resource, with its shelter, paper, firewood, and many other uses.
Some of the renewable resources of New Zealand are: Wind. Wind turbines are everywhere, collecting the energy of the wind. They cost a lot, but it takes care of about 15% of the power in New Zealand!!!
Hydropower: Hydropower is a vital source of energy for New Zealanders. There are huge hydropower dams everywhere in New Zealand. The difference between the hydropower energy to solar, wind, and ocean waves is that the hydropower dams have the ability to store the energy in compartments in case of something happening where they can't capture energy from the other resources.
Solar energy: Solar energy is the basics of renewable resources. The sun feeds pretty much everything on earth with energy, so obviously this is one of the greatest sources of energy.
Lastly, energy of waves and tides: New Zealand's waves can be as large as a three story building, and being an ongoing resource, it is quite important, if only we find a way to trap the energy. It is known that there is a tremendous pool of energy in the ocean, but to find a way to trap or use this energy is a totally different thing. Right now, there are many devices being constructed in order to extract the energy, but none have succeeded.
There are a lot of other renewable resources, like Geothermal steam and Forestry biomass.
NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES
Nonrenewable resources are resources that have been made in a long period of time, and can't be remade in any reasonable amount of time. Some nonrenewable resources are: Natural gas,Petroleum (oil) and Nuclear power.
Nuclear power, just like in the Simpsons, is processed in huge power plants. Its a very efficient way of making energy, except it is pretty dangerous if you misuse it, or something bad happens.
Mineral Resources
New Zealand has more than 600 identified minerals in 25 different mineral deposits. There are 45 coalfields. Gold, silver and titanomagnetite ironsands (I have no idea what that is) are New Zealand’s most economically important metallic minerals. Aggreggate, limestone and coal are the most important non-metallic minerals.
You might want to enlarge these pictures in order to actually see the minerals and things.
Metallic Mineral Map:
Non Metallic Mineral Map:
New Zealand trades generously in many industrial mineral commodities, although the amount of most is taken care of by
domestic demand. The main exports are ironsand, clay, lime, limestone and cement, together with smaller amounts of peat, salt, sulphur and pumice. The main minerals imported are fertiliser minerals like phosphate, potash and sulphur, gypsum used in plaster and cement manufacture and different clays, magnesia, building stone, magnesite, talc, diatomite and cement. There are so many, with so many uses, especially the money. Industrial mineral production in New Zealand is valued at more than $325M annually, with ironsand production worth an added $30M!!! They must be rich!
I couldn't find to many things on the resources of New Zealand like the distribution of the resources, resource management, etc. This was the best I could do, because of the small amount of good websites, which definitely didn't help me too much. I hope this website helped you get the full view of the resources of New Zealand, I know that it helped me, even though I'd never remember all the resources. Overall, I hope you weren't too bored, or too uninformed.
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1 comment:
Jessie:
This is very well done. I appreciate that you wrote the blog in your own words rather than just copy and paste.
To find data on resource management, you could have gone to a NZ government web site.
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