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    Renewable energy vs Fossil fuels The earth has been around for a copious amount of years. Everyday people affect the earth in both a positive and negative way. The most common way of producing energy is by the use fossil fuels. The use of fossil fuels can have a major impact on the earth’s environment. For instance, oil spills, global warming, etc. While some difference between fossil fuels and renewable energy are evident, the similarities are sometimes overlooked. Many of the devices people…

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    innumerable amounts of ways to fuel and support a population efficiently. Some of these innumerable ways include fossil fuels and renewable energy. Fossil fuels are defined as a natural fuel, such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. Renewable energy is defined as energy from a source that is not depleted when used, such as wind or solar power. Fossil fuels and renewable energy both provide energy in the form of electricity, however these different…

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    Burning Fossil Fuels by Samantha Talladira, Earth Science - 4th Period We burn fossil fuels to run your cars or to help with keeping the power and or heat in your house on. We even use them for things like building houses or roads or even skyscrapers. Without the advance of using fossil fuels, the world would look totally different than that of what you see today. The entire world runs off of something as simple as fossil fuels to keep it functioning. There are three main types of fossil fuels.…

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    Why Fossil Fuels Should Not be Banned Envision a situation in the fossil fuel industry, however, everyone lost their jobs due to the fact that fossil fuels were banned? Debate on whether or not fossil fuels should be banned is vivid, it should not at all banned. A variety of people condone that non-renewable energy is just unmistakably unacceptable since it releases greenhouse gases that are nasty for the environment with other demerits. Nevertheless, without practical or feasible…

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    Fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal, and oil are currently the main source of energy in the United States. Although by burning these fossil fuels, we can power our cars, heaters and televisions, and other helpful things, extracting and burning these rare resources come at heavy cost to humans, the Earth and other living things. The current practices of using fossil fuels for energy are harming living organisms and the Earth. Animals are being killed from converting fossil fuels to energy.…

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    ” The production of electricity is necessary for human life to sustain lifestyles and their needs. Fossil fuels are nonrenewable remains of ancient plants and animals that fossilize, and then they transform into a combustible material (McLamb). This means that once fossil fuels are consumed, they can not be recovered. Presently, most of our electricity is produced mostly by the means of fossil fuels. Every year, the world consumes four hundred quadrillion British Thermal Units a year…

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    Biomass vs Fossil Fuels: Which is Better? Most people won’t argue with you when you say that fossil fuels are the least beneficial source of energy. But if you say that biomass, an alternative power source, is more beneficial than fossil fuels, some may disagree. How can a source of alternative energy not be better than fossil fuels? Let us try to understand the differences of these two and decide after if one is really better than the other. Origins Fossil fuels and biomass actually both…

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    The great consumption of fossil fuels and the exponential increase in human population have also increase the greenhouse gases on the planet. The depletion and of petroleum and to their harm to the environment, biofuel arise as a promising option to replace fossil fuels in the future. Biofuel are derived from biomass conversion with many different examples such as biogas, biodiesel and bioethanol as the most currently used, and biofuels are considered not to leave a carbon print to the…

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    living off the energy source of fossil fuels, but what if there were other sources of energy besides the fuels? And what could they be? Well, there are many other methods of gathering energy. There is solar, hydrogen fuel cells, biofuel, geothermal and more. But today you’ll be reading about the pros and cons of fossil fuels, wind energy, and thermal energy, more precisely geothermal energy. As well as some fun facts listed in the below paragraphs. Enjoy. Fossil fuels have provided us with…

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    CONSERVE FOSSIL FUELS The climate change is a hard situation and a big problem. Everybody is informed about the climate change, everybody knows how climate changes affect our planet, the people and our nature and environment. The biggest reason why we have climate change is because we use fossil fuels. I live an ordinary life, I go to school, I have friends and a good family. Today the majority of people in the world live a good life, we have money and we have food on our table. But how can…

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