Disadvantages of Unconventional Fossil Fuels December 13‚ 2013 EES 402: Energy Issues in Geoscience Term Paper I. Introduction “Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted‚ those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction‚ we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.” –David Suzuki (Brainy Quote) Energy consumption in the world is predominantly
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is renewable energy? Why is everyone out there concerned about the future of renewable energy? Well‚ the answers are not as tough as we would have expected‚ nor do they require a lot of action in order to succeed. Our planet is dependent upon us to keep it thriving‚ and the best way to do that is to switch over to renewable energy. Renewable energy effectively uses natural resources such as sunlight‚ wind‚ rain‚ tides and geothermal heat‚ which may be naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies
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Environmental Pollutants: Sewage and Fossil Fuels ENV/100 March 2013 Environmental Pollutants: Sewage and Fossil Fuels Environmental pollutants‚ according to the Blacksmith Institute (2013) negatively affect billions of the world’s population as a result of exposure to poisons associated with sewage and the fossil fuel crude oil. These poisons have led to long-term detrimental effects on ecosystems and has attributed to the premature deaths of 40% or 2.8 billion of the world’s
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1. Introduction • VN is relatively endowed with multiform renewable energy (RE) resources which are distributed through-out the country. They can be exploited for production of energy to meet rapidly increasing energy demand as well as environmental protection. • Main RE resources in VN are small hydro power‚ biomass energy‚ wind energy‚ solar energy‚ and geothermal energy. • So far‚ even the high potential of RE resources‚ their contribution in electricity production in Vietnam is still negligible
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context – Renewable Energy Opposing Viewpoints in Context – Renewable Energy There has been debating among people in the United States on how the best energy supply. Some people suggests that the United States should in fact decrease its dependency on oil and begin to invest in an alternative energy source like renewable energy‚ such as wind and solar power – Go green. Others have contended saying that converting over to a new power source would not only be expensive but
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increasing. The fossil fuel we are using‚ however‚ is running short. Even though the supply is not a problem now‚ it will become sooner or later. Also‚ the deterioration rate of the Earth environment is alarming. The remediation must be taken immediately. For this‚ using more renewable energy is an ideal method to tackle the problems‚ reduce the global warming effect and provide a better living standard. The nation all over the world has investigated the method to less rely on the fossil fuel. Hong Kong
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RENEWABLE ENERGY In simple terms Renewable Energy‚ as its name implies‚ is energy that is renewable—it is naturally replenished and is the energy that is derived from nature itself like water‚ sunlight‚ wind etc. Most of the energy used before the start of the Industrial Revolution was renewable energy. The beginning of the Industrial Revolution led to an increase in the demand for coal‚ and as a result‚ it replaced most of the “bio mass” used by humanity. With the discovery of oil‚ renewable energy
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Chapter 8 Renewable Energy Part 1 Where do we get energy from ? PLANETARY ENERGY RESOURCES Non-Renewable Sources • Fossil-fuel sources of energy: • Coal • Gas • Oil • During earlier periods of the Earth’s history‚ fossilization of biological material created the deposits of coal‚ oil and gas‚ of which at least 1023 Joule is presently believed to be recoverable in a form suitable for fuel uses (Sorensen‚ 2011). • Nuclear energy may be released in large quantities from nuclear reactions (Sorensen
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’s continuous use of fossil fuels is endangering to nature and the wildlife it inhabits as well as the environment that we live in. Our society seems to think that fossil fuels we use in excess today will last forever but actuality will one day be depleted to unrepairable measures‚ which is why we need a cleaner more environmentally friendly substitute. With that said my paper is going to underline how our society would be able to transfer from fossil fuels to cleaner energies which are beneficial
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Many things these days are taken for granted and used with great liberty‚ but none more prevalent than the consumption of petroleum based fossil fuels worldwide. As stated in The International Energy Outlook 2006 (Energy Information Administration‚ 2006a)‚ "World oil consumption rose by about 1.2 million barrels per day in 2005‚ after an increase of 2.6 million barrels per day in 2004". Current projections indicate increasing demand for oil by the transportation sector‚ where there is currently not
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