Energy Sources Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Sources Nonrenewable
Energy Sources Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Sources.
Nonrenewable Energy Sources • A non-renewable resource is a natural resource that cannot be re-made, re-grown or regenerated on a scale comparative to its consumption. Often fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum and natural gas are considered non-renewable resources, as they do not naturally re-form at a rate that makes the way we use them sustainable. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Renewable Energy Resource • A renewable resource is any natural resource that is depleted at a rate slower than the rate at which it regenerates, or be depleted at such a rate that it is unlikely to be depleted in the conceivable future.
Petroleum Based
Renewable Energy Sources
Resource/Reserves • Resource – Naturally occurring substance of use to humans that can potentially be extracted from the earth using current technology. • Reserve – Known deposits from which materials can be extracted profitably with existing technology under certain economic conditions. – The history of the oil reserve.
Fossil-Fuel Formation • Coal Formation • Oil and Natural Gas
Coal Formation • Heat and pressure the two factors in coal formation.
Peat • Organic matter 5% • Water 90% • Volatile matter 5%
Lignite • Peat covered by shallow oceans • Build up of sediment • Less water and more burnable material
Bituminous • Reduction of water to 3% • Lignite change be extreme heat, pressure and time reducing water and becoming a much more combustible material.
Anthracite Coal • 96 % carbon • Most combustible
Reserves throughout the World
Oil and Gas Formation • Similar to coal formation • Supply of organic matter in microscopic marine organisms • Under shale the organism released oil droplets • Found above shale and under impermeable rock.
Oil and Gas Formation
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