Using Crude Oil as a Fuel

Question 1

What does crude oil provide?

Answer 1

An important fuel for modern life.

Question 2

How do crude oil fractions burn?

Answer 2

Cleanly so they make good fuel.

Question 3

What is most modern transport fuelled by?

Answer 3

Crude oil.

Eg cars, boats, trains and planes.

Question 4

Where are parts of crude oil also burned in?

Answer 4

Central heating systems in homes and in power stations to generate electricity.

Question 5

There is a massive industry of what doing what?

Answer 5

Scientists.

Working to find oil reserves to take out of the ground.

Question 6

Electricity can be generated by what?

Answer 6

Nuclear power or wind power.

Question 7

What kind of cars are there?

Answer 7

Ethanol-powered cars.

Question 8

What can solar energy be used for?

Answer 8

To heat water.

Question 9

Things tend to be set up for using oil fractions give an example?

Answer 9

Cars are designed for petrol or diesel and its readily available.

Question 10

How is getting petrol or diesel for your car easy?

Answer 10

There are filling stations all around the country, with storage facilities and pumps specially designed for these crude oil fractions.

Question 11

So crude oil fractions are what?

Answer 11

Often the easiest and cheapest thing to use.

More reliable too.

Question 12

How are solar and wind power unreliable?

Answer 12

They won’t work without the right weather conditions.

Question 13

Nuclear energy is what?

Answer 13

Reliable.

However, a lot of concerns about its safety and the storage of radioactive waste.

Question 14

Crude oil may do what one day?

Answer 14

Run out.

Question 15

What do most scientists think about crude oil?

Answer 15

That it will run out.

Non-renewable.

Question 16

Know one knows when crude oil will run out but there been heaps of predictions. Give an example of one?

Answer 16

About 40 years ago.

Scientists predicted that it would be all gone by the year 2000.

Question 17

What is happening over time?

Answer 17

New oil reserves are being discovered.

Technology is constantly improving.

Question 18

Since new oil reserves are being discovered and technology is improving what is happening?

Answer 18

Its now possible to extract oil that was once too difficult or expensive to extract.

Question 19

What do some people think?

Answer 19

We should stop using crude oil for things like transport as there is alternatives.
We should only use it for more essential things like chemicals and medicines.

Question 20

What will take time to do?

Answer 20

Develop alternative fuels that will satisfy all our energy needs.
Adapt things so that fuels can be used on a wide scale.

Question 21

What is one alternative?

Answer 21

To generate energy from renewable sources.

Won’t run out.

Question 22

Give examples of renewable sources?

Answer 22

Wind power.
Solar power.
Tidal power.

Question 23

How are oil spills bad for the environment?

Answer 23

Birds get covered in the stuff and are poisoned as they try to clean themselves.
Other creatures like sea otters and whales poisoned too.

Question 24

How do oil spills happen?

Answer 24

As the oil is being transported by the tanker.

Question 25

You have to burn oil to use it, how is this bad for the environment?

Answer 25

It is thought to cause global warming, acid rain and global dimming.