Essay on Fossil Fuels

Abstract- It’s unrealistic for renewable energy to completely replace non renewable energy. Nations should begin to strive towards renewable sources to lower their dependency on fossil fuels. This will give the developing world a competitive option to non renewable sources. I. INTRODUCTION Globalization integrates world economy through capital, investment, and labor markets [1]. It allows for the economic growth of developing countries. Development requires the utilization of resources for energy

warming trend being seen today has everything to do with the social and economic advances from the 19th century Industrial Revolution. During this time, fossil fuel use accelerated the changes we see today in agriculture, manufacturing, and power. For example, fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas supply most of the energy needed to fuel the cars we drive, and generate electricity for

60% higher than today (B. SCHMITZ, 2013). Currently, non-renewable energy sources, like coal and oil, are more commonly used, since they are cheaper than renewable energies. In the European Union, 80% of the energy consumption demands are covered by fossil sources (B. SCHMITZ, 2013). But, non-renewable energy sources are running out and they are also very harmful for the environment, since they generate greenhouse gases. So, it is very important to discover more renewable ways to generate energy. For

thermal power plant. Undeniably there are some advantages and drawbacks of thermal power stations. In terms of advantages, firstly thermal power plants are economical because of the low initial cost other than the other generating plant and the main fuel is the coal which is quite cheap than petrol or diesel. Secondly, the land required is smaller than other plants such as hydro power plant. Moreover maintenance for thermal power plant is easily accessible and can be located anywhere, when large amount

The fossil fuel coal is a burnable bituminous black rock that is consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter which is mainly found underground in seams and is also used as a fuel. In time, material that had been plants became coal. The main use for coal today is for generating electricity from one stop to another, cement manufacturing, steel products and as well as a liquid fuel. Coal is formed by plant decay which then turns into peat, the peat will than change to lignite which is a soft brown

Oil is another fossil fuel. It was also formed more than 300 million years ago. Some scientists say that tiny diatoms are the source of oil. Diatoms are sea creatures the size of a pin head. They do one thing just like plants; they can convert sunlight directly into stored energy. In the graphic, as the diatoms died they fell to the sea floor. Here they were buried under sediment and other rock. The rock squeezed the diatoms and the energy in their bodies could not escape. The carbon eventually

(Click Slide). Molecular compounds are everywhere in our every day lives! Sugar cane, for example, is a molecular renewable compound. Although we do not think about it, all of our consumer products that we buy and use are made of molecular compounds that come from various natural resources. Natural resources can be categorized into 2 divisions: renewable resources and non-renewable resources. (Click Slide). Renewable resources are those that be replenished naturally and over a short period of time

from settled. To really have a clear opinion on what the best approach will be, the topic needs to be looked at from both sides. Most of what America uses for energy derives from fossil fuels, the fact is that although fossil fuels appear naturally, they take hundreds of years to replenish. We are depleting our fossil fuel supply both as a country and as a planet, and need to decide what our next course of action is. Right now our

energy. One source of alternative energy is wind and wave energy. An advantage of this is that it is green. Harnessing wave energy comes without the harmful greenhouse gases. We need to find energy sources that will replace polluting ones (e.g. fossil fuels) and I think that wind and wave energy is capable of replacing this. Another advantage of wave energy is that it is cheap and reliable. It is cheap because prices have decreased over 80% since 1980 and are expected to keep decreasing. Waves are

of the renewable energy either comes directly or indirectly from the sun and the other lone source is from the earth. The example of an indirect source from the sun can be wind, tidal waves, and bioenergy. After being aware of the bounds of the fossil fuel, more countries around the world are investing funds to develop renewable energy technology. A dawn of renewable energy is approaching and there are many countries around the globe like Iceland where more than 90% of the energy is derived from renewable