Issues with Using Fossil Fuels

In this paper, we focus on using fossil fuels causing climate change. Fossil fuels are fuels formed natural resources such as coal, petroleum and natural gas, which are the most widely used fuel and industrial chemicals in the world. Since industrial revolution, fossil fuels bring a very great quantity convenience and technological products. So we can use cars, planes and all modern products. But fossil fuels cause climate change at the same time. Greenhouse gas, nitrous oxides and a great deal of harmful gas which are from fossil fuels are causing serious environmental problems. Therefore we need to be concerned about the problems caused by fossil fuels and the solutions.

Coal, crude oil, and natural gas are all considered fossil fuels because they were formed from the buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.

It has come to conclusion that fossil fuels are organic materials that are buried in combustible geologic deposits of organic materials. These fossil fuels are formed from decayed organic materials, animals and rocks that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust for a very long time. Changing the use of energy can cause effects such as; economic issues and environmental issues. Although, energy is in need of production, many

` The continuous use of fossil fuels is leading the Earth on a path to destruction. Generations of advancement and technological innovation being brought down to rubble. Natural disasters wreaking havoc on innocent people across the world. Temperatures soaring above 125℉ globally. These are the results of the excessive use of fossil fuels. A chief concern in the 21st century is global warming and climate change, and the continued use of fossil fuels for the technology and daily lives of humans is key to blame. Decades ago, these problems were much more daunting and seemingly unsolvable than they are today, with the use of alternative energy sources and new

While fossil fuels continue to drive human development, it causes great damage to our environment. For example, the polar ice caps are slowly melting away due to global warming. This is because everything has waste. We fuel our bodies with food, as a result, we get waste. We fuel engines with fossil fuels, as a result, we get waste, just in a different

Fossil fuels have many advantages, and are a good way to break the dependency on other countries for their natural resource supplies,

We should rely of fossil fuels because it’s an essential resource and we use it to run our cars, warm up our houses and have electricity and many industries rely on it. Because we have used it for so many years a lot of time and money has been put into it. They are many equipment all around the world that has been designed to take out our fossil fuel therefore it should be used. Fossil fuels are scattered around the world and are not hard to find although we do have to reach very deep to get it. It’s still accessible. The efficiency of fossil fuel is another factor because it can generate a lot of energy. And carrying it from one place can be done by pipes underground. To put the pipes in place was a very expensive project that’s why we should continue to use it. Another positive side is the fact that it creates thousands of jobs every years and that’s not only in America but also other countries around the world and if many people lose their jobs it can negatively affect the economy.

The formation of the other two fossil fuels (crude oil and natural gas) took millions of years just like coal. Oil and gas come from the remains of small animals and plants. Long ago, when the animals and plants died, they sank to the bottom of the sea. The dead matter formed a large mass, which over time was covered by layers of sand, silt, and mud. As the weight of the sediment increased, the mass became more and more compressed. Then, the heat and pressure of the Earth eventually turned the mass into oil and gas. If the heat applied during the formation was low, then more oil was produced than gas. If the temperature was

This paper will discuss the three main fossil fuels which are oil, coal, and natural gas. This research shows how the fossil fuels are formed, where they could be found, and explain how they were formed over millions of years. This paper will show the numerous advantages of fossil fuels compared to the disadvantages and how they are hurting the Earth. Fossils fuels are critical to the function of everyday life. The world would be a different if fossil fuels and their uses were not to of use.

To find out what fossil fuels are, we must first know how they were formed. They were at first actual living organisms. “They were formed from prehistoric plants and animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago” (Department of Energy, N.d, p.1). Examples of fossil fuels are oil, coal, and natural gas. All three of these resources are given a term “non-renewable.” This is because once we use all of these resources up, they are gone forever. These non-renewable resources also cannot be replaced in our lifetime. There is only a certain amount of these fossil fuels left in the Earth for us to be able to use.

Fossil fuels are essential to life on earth as we know it today. Our world would certainly be much different if it weren’t for such seemingly simple things such as coal, oil, and natural gas. These basic elements of life on earth may not seem like a major concern to some people until we put into perspective how they have shaped our world today. Civilizations have been built, economies have risen and crumbled, and even wars have been fought over these precious fossil fuels. However, these fossil fuels serve us in ways we may never truly appreciate, as long as we use them as recklessly as we do now. The major entity about fossil fuels is concerning their longevity and permanence in our world, and we all know, they will be around forever.

They are formed from the remains of fossil plant and animal life. We use fossil fuels to power our cars and airplanes, medicine, makeup, and to run many different types of appliances. Many products that are used everyday wouldn’t be available without the oil and gas extracted and processed from fossil fuels. Some advantages are being able to generate great amounts of electricity in one location, cost efficient and reliable, coal is becoming more and more available as geologists are finding coal mines, easily stored and transported from one place to another and new technology had been made to safely extract fossil fuels. Some disadvantages are it gives off carbon dioxide causing the greenhouse effect, which contributes to the global warming, mining of coal results in the destruction of wide areas, extracting coal puts workers in danger of health problems, moving fossil fuels from one location to another can involve leaks in oil tankers or ships that include toxic substances that puts marine life in hazards and lastly, burning coal releases acid rain.

Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons sourced from the organic remnants of prehistoric organisms that are then exploited in the production of coal, oil and natural gasses. The organic matter takes centuries to form. Fossil fuels predominantly comprise of carbon and hydrogen bonds, unfortunately fossil fuels are not a renewable energy resource. Once all organic remnants are seared, there isn't any more.As a result of burning the consumption of fossil fuels has nearly doubled every 20 years since 1900.This is a specific problem for oil, because materials like oil are used to make plastics and numerous other products. The combustion of fossil fuels also generates other air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds and heavy metals- Michael Parfit (National Geographic). The amount of CO2 produced when a fuel is burned is a function of the carbon content of the fuel. The heat content, or the amount of energy produced when a fuel is burned, is mainly determined by the carbon (C) and hydrogen (H) content of the fuel. Heat is emitted when (C) and (H) united with oxygen (O) during combustion. Natural gas is largely methane (CH4), which has a complex energy content comparative to other fuels, and thus, it has a relatively lower CO2-to-energy content. Water and various elements, such as sulphur and non-combustible elements in some fuels, reduce their heating principles and increase their CO2-to-heat contents.The heat caused by infrared radiation is

Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons, primarily coal, fuel oil or natural gas created from the decade of dead plants and animals. Fossil fuels are formed through the natural process. So they are considered as un-renewable resources because the formation of fossil fuels may take millions of years and the feasible reserves are being run-down much faster than new ones are being made. The use of fossil fuel was started in the industrial revolution with the invention of the steam engine. All fired power stations like nuclear, coal, gas and oil are still working on the same principle of the steam engine. Still, fossil fuels are controlling to change the structure of our global economy. After the invention of the steam engine by James Watt (1769) brought widely increased the energy efficiency. After this invention, the use of fossil fuels is increased rapidly. This helps to give a

The world currently functions through the use of fossil fuels. However, fossil fuels possess two significant disadvantages. Fossil fuels harm the global environment because they enhance the greenhouse effect by releasing carbon dioxide, and they release other harmful