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    Fossil Fuels

    Chapter 17, section 1

    Fossil Fuels

    Remains of organisms from millions of years ago Changed through specific heat and pressure over time Coal, oil, natural gas

    Problems

    Limited supply Extraction & Use have environmental problems


    Use other fuels Use less fossil fuels

    Electricity

    Fossil fuels burned to boil water Steam turns a turbine Turbine spins metal in a magnetic field (electric generator) Electricity is easily transported

    Energy Use Patterns

    Developed > developing Canada/USA > Japan/Switzerland Low gas taxes in USA & Canada Small country/rail system in Japan & Switzerland

    Coal formation

    Eastern USA 320 300 million years ago Western USA 100 40 m.y.a. Repeated sediment layers over swamps

    Oil & Natural Gas formation

    Buried remains of marine (ocean) organisms AK, TX, CA, and the Gulf of Mexico

    Coal

    Mining

    Underground
    Safer for above Mine fires are dangerous

    Surface
    Remove entire mountaintops Toxic chemicals into streams

    Burning coal

    Sulfur in all coal acid rain Cleaner burning coal in USA

    Petroleum

    AKA crude oil

    Fuels, chemicals, plastics

    Burning
    CO2 Smog Sulfur

    Oil spills

    Natural Gas

    Formerly burned off Now used as fuel


    Transport via pipeline Compress into tanks

    Burns cleaner than oil or coal

    The future

    More humans, more demand Slower increase of oil production No new oil reserves in the past decade Deep ocean reserves?

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