Bituminous coal

Hydraulic Fracking is a drilling method used to extract gas beneath shale formations located deep below the Earth’s surface. It has been practiced for more than 50 years, but it was not until the last decade it became an issue due to a new method of drilling horizontally. Before the last decade, the practice was to drill vertically through shale bedrock to obtain access to oil or gas. In the last 10 to 15 years to the practice of horizontal drilling for methane became popular due to the…

Have you ever walked through a lava tube? When we were on the Big Island, we got to walk through lava tubes. These tubes are chambers in which lava once flowed. It’s hollow because the lava cooled from the outside in which made it that way. We can’t travel through these on Oahu because we don’t have any lava tubes. All of our volcanoes are inactive. The Big island is better because of the many fun things to do. It is better than Oahu for 3 reasons, they have volcanoes, lava tubes, and…

Statement of Problem The Ely Copper Mine was declared a superfund site in 2001. Mining activity occurred from 1821 to 1920 Ore body discovered in 1813 Location The Ely Copper Mine is located in East Central Vermont in the rural town of Vershire, Orange County. The site is part of a region referred to as the Vermont Copper Belt, or the Orange Country copper district. Over 30 miles long, the belt runs in a NNE–SSW direction. The Ely Mine is one of three major mine sites in the region. It…

In 1736 the first real volunteer department known as the union fire company was started in Philadelphia by Ben Franklin. The Union fire company was made up of all volunteers that would make a line from the closet water source and pass the buckets to the fire. There were many other fire brigades that were clubs or co-ops which only intended to fight each other’s fires that were in the group. Ben Franklin’s concept was to help everyone and their property from burning. During their spare time they…

I believe that long time ago a flood affected the Earth and killed many people. I believe this because evidence from this event has been found, archaeologists have found bones from children in the Yellow River Valley. The children are believed to have been trapped by a large flood during the 2000 B.C. The plot line form the “Book of Ruth” and the “Boaz Asleep” are very different because the first one is a story and the second one is a poem. I think that the setting of the “Book of Ruth” is…

For many years man have used hydraulic fracturing in order to stimulate the flow of natural resources in the earth's crust to process them into a useable supply for our everyday needs. The United States is currently known as the number one leading nation with the most natural gas resources due to hydraulic fracturing being a native technology. Although the thought behind this activity was to further our lives, this drilling practice has raised some questions among society with its potential…

world today that has worked for over one hundred years and still works now? Coal power is the answer to that question. Nuclear power should not take the place completely of coal power. The reasons for this statement are these: coal has worked and will work, nuclear can be dangerous, mass abundance of coal, simplicity of coal power, expense is much higher with nuclear power, coal plants have more space in the world. Coal power should stay the main source of power over nuclear. Nuclear power is…

Past VS Future: The Dakota Access Pipeline The Dakota Access is a pipeline that will carry 7.4 billion barrels of oil a day to be used from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipe will run under 22 bodies of water, and one of them is Lake Oahu in South Dakota. Lake Oahu is the main water source for the Standing Rock Reservation, and the Native Americans living there worry the pipe might pollute the lake and disrupt sacred burial grounds. The Dakota Access will provide us oil in places where we need…

Texas has actually decreased water consumption and saved water. Since Texas has gotten rid of coal-fired power plant, which consume lots of water, and switched to the natural gas it saves more water. This article states that by fracking, natural gas production is boosting, and making the electric power system more drought resistant. “Researchers estimate that water saved by shifting a power plant from coal to Natural Gas is 25 to 50 times as great as the amount of water used to extract the…

A deep-sea hydrothermal vent is one of the harshest places to live on earth. This is due to the pitch darkness, heavy metals, extreme acidity, poison gas and the enormous pressure. Sunlight penetrates no further than a few hundred feet down which means the deep-sea floor is as dark as a deep cave. There are no plants due to no sunlight and all the vent life belong to the animal kingdom. Due to there being no plants there is no photosynthesis. These organisms rely on a process called…