In this team paper, I choose the topic on the fossil fuels energy. The fossil energy is including petroleum, natural gas, and coal. They are three major use resources in the past few decades. The reason for them to be the main resources because they can transfer into different energies. So that make them to be more ways to use in our daily. In the past few decades to present, and maybe in the future, we will still heavily use them. From the article U.S. Energy: Overview and Statistics mentions, “Consumption of major energy resources—petroleum, natural gas, and coal, as well as nuclear and renewable energy—is presented.( Figure 1) The historical trends show that petroleum has been and continues to be the major source of energy.” (Ratner, 2014)
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“Over one-half of the homes in the United States are supplied with natural gas.” (King) Natural gas given supplies almost every home in the United States. In the residential, natural gas use in many different ways. King mentions, “The natural gas consumed in homes is used for space heating and water heating. It is also used in stoves, ovens, clothes dryers, lighting fixtures and other appliances.” (King) The industrial also widely use in natural gas. The industrial use natural to keep its building warm, even turn it to alternative energy to lighting the indoor and outdoor. Also natural gas is efficiency resource which the industrials use in to produce their products. The products are out there, which we can see and use in every day, “Natural gas is used as a fuel to produce steel, glass, paper, clothing, brick, and electricity. Natural gas is also used as a raw material for many products, including paints, fertilizer, plastics, antifreeze, dyes, photographic film, medicines, and explosives.” (Natural gas is a major energy source for the United states, 2014) Therefore, natural gas could be still in an efficiency fossil energy for in residential and …show more content…
The most use for coal are the industrial. First, industrials use the coal to operate the electricity generator. In the United States, there huge amount of the electricity come from the coal generator, “Coal is used to produce about 39% of all the electricity generated in the United States. Power plants can make steam by burning coal. The steam then turns turbines,” (Coal Explained: Use for for Coal, 2015) the industry also use coal produce steels. Steel is material which require a very temperature to make, thus, coal can crates the energy to produce steel. “The energy from arc raised the temperatures to 1600 degree, melting the scrap and producing molten steel. Much of electricity use in EAF is produced from coal.” (The coal resource- a comprehensive overview of coal, 2009) Even coal were come from the underground, there is not many people know that coal use to purified water and air. Coal can transfer to activate carbon, which is the substance to use filter and purified water and air. “Activated carbon – used in filters for water and air purification and kidney dialysis machines.” (The coal resource - a comprhensive overview of coal,
“Over one-half of the homes in the United States are supplied with natural gas.” (King) Natural gas given supplies almost every home in the United States. In the residential, natural gas use in many different ways. King mentions, “The natural gas consumed in homes is used for space heating and water heating. It is also used in stoves, ovens, clothes dryers, lighting fixtures and other appliances.” (King) The industrial also widely use in natural gas. The industrial use natural to keep its building warm, even turn it to alternative energy to lighting the indoor and outdoor. Also natural gas is efficiency resource which the industrials use in to produce their products. The products are out there, which we can see and use in every day, “Natural gas is used as a fuel to produce steel, glass, paper, clothing, brick, and electricity. Natural gas is also used as a raw material for many products, including paints, fertilizer, plastics, antifreeze, dyes, photographic film, medicines, and explosives.” (Natural gas is a major energy source for the United states, 2014) Therefore, natural gas could be still in an efficiency fossil energy for in residential and …show more content…
The most use for coal are the industrial. First, industrials use the coal to operate the electricity generator. In the United States, there huge amount of the electricity come from the coal generator, “Coal is used to produce about 39% of all the electricity generated in the United States. Power plants can make steam by burning coal. The steam then turns turbines,” (Coal Explained: Use for for Coal, 2015) the industry also use coal produce steels. Steel is material which require a very temperature to make, thus, coal can crates the energy to produce steel. “The energy from arc raised the temperatures to 1600 degree, melting the scrap and producing molten steel. Much of electricity use in EAF is produced from coal.” (The coal resource- a comprehensive overview of coal, 2009) Even coal were come from the underground, there is not many people know that coal use to purified water and air. Coal can transfer to activate carbon, which is the substance to use filter and purified water and air. “Activated carbon – used in filters for water and air purification and kidney dialysis machines.” (The coal resource - a comprhensive overview of coal,