Essays on Fossil Fuels

Are fossil fuels good or bad? If you have ever drove by a factory or power station and saw smoke falling out of the place, you’re seeing petroleum contamination first hand. Fossil fuels want to be burnt to release the chemicals stored in them which contribute to gas being released into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, burning...

The UK requires a large amount of energy and does this by many different mediums, such as: Natural Gas 30%, Coal 30%, 19% Nuclear, 9.5% Wind, 6.8% Bioenergy, 1.8% Hydro, 1.8% Other (Carbon Brief 2014). The UK produces so much energy that it can produce over 90 trillion mugs of tea, enough to go around...

Over the years, people strived to find a cheap sufficient way to produce energy to power engines, factories and houses. Earliest in the times coal was used mainly in heating; there were real factories, but with the introduction of the first steam engine the Newcomen engine which was first built in 1712 which was used...

Throughout history there has always been a need for coal, gasoline and oil. Without these energy sources, we could not have running cars, trucks, and planes. Without them we could not have heat or light. According to Robert Lyman Principal at ENTRANS Policy Research Group, Inc., “Oil provides 95% of the fuel demands of the...

Fossil Fuel Research Paper Directions: Write a 5 paragraph essay on Climate change. Be sure to add the bibliography at the end. Important tip…. The bibliography should be put into alphabetical order. Erase these purple words before submitting. Fossil fuels, most used for energy has a dark secret. Fossil fuels are nonrenewable that come from...

Starting with the basics of fossil fuels, fossil fuels are formed by fossilized remains of plants or animals from millions of years ago that were in the ground. Fossil fuels include coal, oil, and natural gas. Coal is formed from layers that are in the dirt and rock which were covered by plants a long...

Over the last few decades, large amounts of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere. The rate at which CO2 is being produced from earth has been reaching close to 4.2 parts per million [1]. To put this into perspective the Moana Loa volcano, the largest subaerial volcano in the world, produces just 1.75 parts...

Today, the world runs both literally and figuratively on fossil fuels. People depend on fossil fuels for personal transportation, lighting and heating their homes, the conveyance of their foods, the machinery that helps grow food, erect buildings, mine for important minerals, and the products that allow consumerism to thrive. However, the combustion of fossil fuels...

Everyone uses energy every day of their lives, whether it be oil for cars, natural gas for stoves, and even electricity to light up homes. While people use up all this energy, how is it being replenished? Spoiler, it’s not. The planet has only a limited amount of resources for people to use as energy,...