PETROLEUM
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
Petroleum is important in everyone's daily lives. It is processed and is a part of thousands of different items like tires, refrigerators, and life jackets. Carbon helps regulate the Earth's atmosphere and temperature. It adds to the natural balance by burning fossil fuels. However it adversely affects our climate.
WHERE DO WE FIND IT
One of the biggest oil refineries is in Alaska at Prudohoe Bay Field. It is the largest oil find in the United States. Many oil finds are located under the sea. Petroleum is also found in conventional oil fields such as in Texas, Saudi Arabia, and the Norther Sea. Petroleum can be found in oil deposits. It is found in many of different places around the world.
WHAT DO WE USE IT FOR
We use petroleum for many different things such as cooking on stoves or ovens, cars, electricity, locomotives, boats, microwaves, gasoline, and oil lanterns just to name a couple of things. A very large percentage of the crude oil that we refine goes to fueling our transportation needs and heating homes in the world.
HOW CAN WE USE IT RESPONSIBLY
We can use petroleum responsibly by not wasting energy when we are cooking or not heating our homes too warm when we are not at our home. Instead of using so much energy you can just narrow it down as to not use as much as you usually do. That's how you can use it responsibly.
NATURAL GAS
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
Natural Gas is playing an increasingly important role in the United States. Natural gas in the U.S is growing as it increases as a good alternative to oil. The United States can produces its own natural gas and not depend on foreign countries.
Natural Gas is the cleanest and most efficient fossil fuel on the world. 98.5 percent of natural gas we use in the United States comes from North America and supplies are very abundant in North America.
Natural gas meets 28 percent of U.S energy demand (as of 2012). Natural gas as of now heats 51 percent of U.S households. It also cools down many homes and provides fuel for cooking and baking. Natural gas burns cleaner than gasoline or diesel. When cars, trucks, and buses use natural gas they reduce emissions. There are approximately 142,000 natural gas vehicles operating on American roads today!
We believe that natural gas can be developed in a responsibly manner. Over the past several years an amazing game-changer event happened in the natural gas industry thanks to all of the improved technologies that are allowing energy producers to access significant and glowing supplies of domestic natural gas from many shale formations and other unconventional reservoirs.
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WHERE DO WE FIND IT
Many of years ago, a large number of plants and ferns grew on the Earth. After the plants and ferns died in swamps, around riverbanks and got covered with soil and mud they slowly sank far into the ground.As the years passed, the Earth’s heat and the weight of the ground changed these dead plants turned into coal. To extract coal, it needs to be dug out of the ground. Coal is usually found in layers, or seams underground.
WHAT DO WE USE IT FOR
Coal has many important uses all round the world. it is used mostly for electricity, steel production, cement manufacturing and as a liquid fuel. Around 6.6 billion tons of hard coal were used worldwide.Other important users of coal include aluminum refineries, paper manufacturers, and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Several chemical products can be produced from the by-products of coal. Soap, aspirins, solvents, dyes, plastics and fibers such as rayon and nylon come from by products of coal. Coal is also an essential ingredient in the production of specialist products: Activated carbon - used in filters for water and air purification and in kidney dialysis machines.Carbon fiber - an extremely strong but light weight reinforcement material used in construction, mountain bikes and tennis rackets. Silicon metal - used to produce silicone, which are in turn used to make lubricants, water repellents, resins, cosmetics, hair shampoos and toothpastes.
HOW CAN WE USE IT RESPONSIBLY
Many coal-fired plants operate far below their design efficiencies because of poor plant maintenance, and lack of diagnostic tools and instrumentation. There are many optimization programs that could include implementation of low cost best practices that would save millions of tons of coal, avoid over a million tons of CO2 emissions, and improve the plants' financial performance. Remodeled power plants would be more efficient and emit less CO2. Coal plants could also be upgraded with new pollution control equipment to emit less sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and other emissions, including mercury. Although some projects have been implemented, much more work is needed in this area.
NUCLEAR ENERGY
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
Nuclear energy produces about 20 percent of U.S electricity and about 15 percent of all the world wide. It can be expanded by building more plants, and with easy access to natural gas diminishing this is useful. it is also very important.
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
An advantage is that it does not produce greenhouse gases so it is preferable to burning coal. It can be expanded by building more plants, and with easy access to natural gas diminishing. Another advantage is that a nuclear power plant can run no matter what the weather is like which makes it more stable than of types of energy. A disadvantage is that uranium is used in the fission process and many precautions during the mining and transporting and storing of the uranium need to be in place to prevent it from giving off harmful levels of radiation.
WHAT DO WE USE IT FOR
In addition to commercial nuclear power plants, there are about 240 research reactors operating, in 56 countries, with more under construction. These have many uses including research and the production of medical and as well as for training. The use of reactors for marine propulsion is mostly confined to the major navies where it has played a very important role for five decades, providing power for submarines and large surface vessels. About 150 ships are propelled by some 180 nuclear reactors and over 13,000 reactor and have years of experience and has been gained with marine reactors.
HOW CAN WE USE IT RESPONSIBLY
Each year enough nuclear energy is enough to meet the needs of about 3 million households, with almost zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Nuclear waste can be very dangerous. we also use it some modern medicine products such as uranium, and plutonium are a concern because responsible management of these products is crucial to environmental safety and the safety of residents.
Nuclear waste can be very dangerous. we also use it some modern medicine products such as uranium, and plutonium are a concern because responsible management of these products is crucial to environmental safety and the safety of residents.