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    What Are Fossil Fuels?

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    Today when our car is running low on gas, all we do is stop at a gas station and fill it up. We do not even take a second to think about it, we just do it. Not many people stop and think about how the fuel we are putting into our cars got to the gas station in the first place. The bad news for us is that oil, along with a few other resources, are fossil fuels. Almost everyone’s daily life uses fossil fuels in one way or another. The big question that not many people ask or know the answer to

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    lighting, running a machine and many other different ways. Most of the energy that humans use is fossil fuel and fossil fuel included coal, oil and natural gas. Coal is the deposits from plants that have been buried in the ground and undergone some complicated chemical changes to slowly form that solid combustible minerals. The vegetation has been compressed by the layers of rock for a millions of years to form coal so it’s non-renewable fuel. Since people have increasing their need of energy to produce

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    fuels is their capacity to generate much amounts of electricity in a single station. • Fossil fuels are very easy to search. • Become coal cost effective when it is used in power plants. Abundant supply of coal in power plant. • Supply of oil and gas to the power stations can be use of pipes making it a very easy task. • Gases are use in power plants very efficient manner. • Power stations can be constructed in almost any location that makes use of fossil fuel. This is feasible so long as much

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    designs and produces alternative fuel, liquefied natural gas, landfill gas, and compressed natural gas. The company headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The company also has facilities in France, China, America, and Sweden. Westport was founded in 1995 by Professor Philip Hill and David Demers at the University of British Columbia. Hill and David worked together with a team of graduate students and research engineers, they are focusing on natural gas as a fuel in diesel engines to reduce emissions

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    What are some forms of energy storage? What are the benefits of these? The forms of energy storage are superconducting magnetic energy storage, compressed air energy storage, electrochemical energy storage (batteries), pumped hydroelectric storage, thermal energy storage, and kinetic energy storage. The benefits are solar and wind can be intermittent; if there is too little of one energy storage and

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    These fuels can take multiple shapes and forms, from coal to gas to oil. As the primary sources for fuel, fossil fuels run nearly everything, ranging from houses to vehicles to electricity. Unfortunately, this would explain why fossil fuels hold a responsibility for human-caused climate change, as they power a significant

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    The hydrogen tanks today hold the hydrogen in a compressed form, which make the tank heavier. The drawback to that is that the car needs to be a certain weight to maintain popular fuel economy, so carrying a heavier tank is not an attractive offer for consumers or car manufactures. You can also free the

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    THE IMPACT FOSSIL FUELS HAVE ON OUR PLANET Oil reserves are found all over the world. Some reserves produced more oil than others. Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United States, Iran, and China are the top oil producing countries (U.S. Department of Energy, 2013). Petroleum is produced in 31 states throughout the United States (U.S. Department of Energy, 2013). Texas, Alaska, California, Louisiana, and Oklahoma are the states that produce the most petroleum (U.S. Department of Energy, 2013). It is used

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    ways: pre-combustion capture, post-combustion capture and oxy-fuel combustion. 2. Transporting [15][16][11] The captured emissions than compressed into a fluid and transported using different transportation methods including rail, trucks, ships and pipeline. The transportation of CO2 uses the same technologies as in transporting oil and natural gas and is subject to the same safety and health standards in hydrocarbons transportation. An appropriate transportation method is chosen based on

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    Fossil Fuels such us oil, coal, and natural gas are currently the world’s primary energy resources because they originate from living things. Formed millions of years ago from the decomposition of organic materials such as plants and animal life, it is non-renewable resources that supplied U.S. and global economic development over the past century. In fact, Fossil fuel industries mine or drill for this energy resources, burn them to provide electricity. Natural gas and oil are used when it comes to

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