Renewable energy is the clean power of the future. Mankind is running into a dead end and must act now. The world is filled with variations of power that are rapidly depleting fossil fuels, the average population must understand how these fuels are obtained, what the long term effects of using these fuels has on the world, and how the human race can move forward by using different variations of renewable energy, whether it 's for housing or transportation purposes. "Fossil fuels are an incredibly dense form of energy, and they took millions of years to become so. When they 're gone, they 're gone pretty much forever" ("The End Of Fossil Fuels"). Most modern scientists and petroleum engineers believe fossil fuels will be gone by 2088. Fossil
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The liquid portion of petroleum is called crude oil or simply oil. This oil is used to make gasoline and diesel chemical compounds. The gasoline is used to fuel light vehicles while diesel fuels heavy duty ones. The gaseous portion is called natural gas. Natural gas is used to heat houses and fuel certain devices like dryers and certain stoves/ovens. Petroleum is gathered from spongy porous rock in the earth 's crust. Techniques to access petroleum are drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Drilling is primarily used when petroleum pockets can be specifically located. Drills drill into the earth to siphon the gases and liquids of petroleum. Hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking for short, is used for splitting tough rock full of petroleum. Fracking is a step ahead of drilling in terms of speed and production, but has greater defects. High pressure streams of water, corrosive chemicals, and sand are used (Kelly 17). These elements work together to crack massive portions of land and allow petroleum to be siphoned out through the crevices. Fracking is the primary way to gather petroleum today. In the US this is done in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico …show more content…
It is primarily created by factories. Laws were put in place to prevent this, but companies still secretly do this because all they care about is money. Heated water is the byproduct of coolants for machinery. This water is dumped into bodies of water. This foreign temperature disrupts aquatic life. All organisms such as fish and plants are affected. Then this indirectly affects the surrounding ecosystems dependent on the waters for food. Thermal pollution causes a chain reaction within ecosystems that can only be stopped by mankind itself and the enforcement of
The liquid portion of petroleum is called crude oil or simply oil. This oil is used to make gasoline and diesel chemical compounds. The gasoline is used to fuel light vehicles while diesel fuels heavy duty ones. The gaseous portion is called natural gas. Natural gas is used to heat houses and fuel certain devices like dryers and certain stoves/ovens. Petroleum is gathered from spongy porous rock in the earth 's crust. Techniques to access petroleum are drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Drilling is primarily used when petroleum pockets can be specifically located. Drills drill into the earth to siphon the gases and liquids of petroleum. Hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking for short, is used for splitting tough rock full of petroleum. Fracking is a step ahead of drilling in terms of speed and production, but has greater defects. High pressure streams of water, corrosive chemicals, and sand are used (Kelly 17). These elements work together to crack massive portions of land and allow petroleum to be siphoned out through the crevices. Fracking is the primary way to gather petroleum today. In the US this is done in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico …show more content…
It is primarily created by factories. Laws were put in place to prevent this, but companies still secretly do this because all they care about is money. Heated water is the byproduct of coolants for machinery. This water is dumped into bodies of water. This foreign temperature disrupts aquatic life. All organisms such as fish and plants are affected. Then this indirectly affects the surrounding ecosystems dependent on the waters for food. Thermal pollution causes a chain reaction within ecosystems that can only be stopped by mankind itself and the enforcement of