Fuels Test Flashcards
Negative of wind power
Wind is inconsistent Has to be coupled with other energy sources Location matters Noise/ visual pollution Bird death
Negatives of solar power
Hard to capture consistently
Costly/efficiency ratio
Problems with nuclear power
Reactor safety Disposal of nuclear wastes Transportation of radioactive materials Terrorism/weaponization Worker safety Thermal pollution Cost
What is a resource
A naturally occurring substance of use to humans
Reserve
Known deposit
How are resources and reserves related
A reserve is a resource. Resources are broader than reserves
Non renewable resource and examples
A source of energy whose use is greater than it’s formation
Coal, oil, gas
Renewable resource and examples
A source of energy that replenishes itself or is continuously present
Water, oxygen, fruit/veggie
Fossil fuels form
Formed by natural processes
Coal formation
By energy stored in plants and form layers at the bottoms of swamps
Wet, least wanted kind of coal
Lignite
Soft, most common type of coal
Bituminous
Hard grade, most wanted type of coal
Anthracite
Most abundant fossil fuel
Coal
% of energy use from coal
24%
Coal used for
Industrial and electrical uses
1 barrel of oil = ? Gallons
49
From one barrel how many gallons are gas and where do the rest go?
19
Jet fuel and other things
Methods to import and transport oil
Tankers, pipelines, and tanks
Incorrect to say that majority of oil pollution comes from spills
Spills account for only 1/3 of transportation pollution
It also comes from automobile emission and plants and industries
Spill pollution
Damages beaches, mammals, birds, and aquatic life’s enviornment and destroys their habitats
Non spill pollution
Hurts the air with its emission
Strip mining
Removing the materials located on top of a vein of coal to access coal beneath
Underground mining
Vertical shifts and drifts mines are used to access deep coal veins
How does nuclear power generate energy
Nuclear fisson
Nucleus splits and produces energy
How is natural gas transported
Liquified natural gas
Fracking
Using water to release natural gas trapped with in a rock
Big pipe like thing drilled in the found to get oil
Dangers of fracking
Can release chemicals into drinking water
Requires massive amounts of water and energy
Problems of natural gas
Wells don’t produce normal wastes
Smells, combustion
Gas loss/pollution
Wells exhaust quickly
Problems with fossil fuels
Transportation, extraction, refinement
Opportunities for leakage, loss, and spillage
Cons of hydroelectric power
Environmental disruption
Massive flooding
Poole displacement
