Essays Tagged: "Fossil Fuels"
Global Warming
ing global climate.'(1989 Koral). After the 1900'speople started making factories and started using fossil fuels like coal, oil, and aluminum.It was the industrial revolution and overpopulation of hum ... ioxide that surrounds our earth.One main reason for the problem of global warming is the burning of fossil fuels.Fossil fuels are coal, oil and natural gases. We use these fuels to run factories, powe ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Fossil Fuels
Natural Resources ReportOur society has become dependent on fossil fuels for energy. That seems fine for nowconsidering the fact that everyone is generally happ ... t seems fine for nowconsidering the fact that everyone is generally happy in the present situation. Fossil fuelsare relatively inexpensive and seem to be doing the trick right now. Using fossil fuelsa ... today. My theory is that thesame thing will happen with such things as plastic, which is made from fossil fuels.Someone will either come up with a synthetic plastic or come up with something tosubsti ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Class Journal on Global Warming
climate due to a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." Our society is mostly powered by fossil fuels which contribute to global warming.After reading a bit of information on global warming ... overnment put laws into place that will help our Earth's future? After reading further I found that fossil fuel companies have vast reserves of money to pay for lobbyists, advertising, and their own s ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Air pollution
body is often over shadowed. While many are aware that our careless use of hazardous chemicals and fossil fuels may leave the planet uninhabitable in the future, most over look the fact that they are ... monoxide(CO). This odorless, colorless, but poisonous gas is produced by the incomplete burning of fossil fuels, like gasoline or diesel fuel.Carbon Monoxide comes from cars, trucks, gas furnaces and ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Life Outside Our Biosphere
disrupted. Overpopulation is placing heavy strain on the world's resources. We are burning all our fossil fuels to create the energy we need, and clearing our rainforests to make enough farmland to f ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Space
Global Warming. 5 pages. Causes, effects, and possible solutions, such as: the kyoto treaty, "sinks", and hemp.
ncreased and are continuing to increase at a considerable rate. People have burned large amounts of fossil fuels, sprayed harmful chemicals, and torn down forests; this has all contributed to the glob ... argest amounts of pollution are being created by the wealthiest countries. The oil, coal, and other fossil fuel industries are strongly opposing this treaty because it would greatly effect their busin ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
This essay dicusses the cause, effects, and prevention of acid rain.
e and Nitrogen Oxide. Sulfur Oxide is a colorless gas that is released as a by-product of combusted fossil fuels containing Sulfur. Industrial processes, like the production of iron, steel, utility fa ... d admire. What humans can do to reduce sulfur and nitrogen dioxide emission is to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Car pools, public transportation, or walking can reduce tons of nitrogen oxide emissio ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Acid Rain Essay
cid rain is produced, when automobiles, smelters, power plants, and other industrial factories burn fossil fuels such as gasoline, coal, and fuel oils. When combusted, the non renewable resources rele ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Solar Energy
nergy is energy that comes from the sun. This is good for the environmentbecause it is not using up fossil fuels, and the sun's energy cannot be wasted. Just recentlyin the 19th and 20th centuries, pe ... rediction is that solar energy will become more common in the future becausethere is a limit to the fossil fuels. There is no limit to the sun's energy.Solar energy is heat and light and electromagnet ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Privately Owned Gasoline Powered Vehicles Should be Limited
destructive nature. Automobiles make a major contribution to air and noise pollution, depletion of fossil fuels, and to the abnormalities in children and adults due to lead poisoning. In order to sto ... .Another reason privately owned gasoline powered vehicles should be limited is the depletion of the fossil fuel supply. People all over the world need petroleum, a fossil fuel, to fill their cars in o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Photochemical Smog
ggy weather created a toxic atmosphere that claimed about 4000 human lives. Today, the use of other fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectricity instead of coal has greatly reduced the occurrence ... city instead of coal has greatly reduced the occurrence of industrial smog. However, the burning of fossil fuels like gasoline can create another atmospheric pollution problem known as photochemical s ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Detailed information on SOLAR ENERGY in essay form.
water can provide the energy needed to generate electricity in a hydro-electric power station.Also fossil fuels, such as coal, brown coal, oil and natural gas have their beginnings in the sun's energ ... the evolution of the microscopic forms of life of animal or vegetable origin.The reserves of these fossil fuels, however, are limited. We must use them economically. Not only not to mortgage the futu ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
Acid rain and the effect it has on our environment
d oxides of nitrogen (NOx). Sulfur dioxide is a colorless gas released as a by-product of combusted fossil fuels containing sulfur. A variety of industrial processes, such as the production of iron an ... humans can do, as citizens, to reduce sulfur and nitrogen dioxide emission is to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Car pools, public transportation, or walking can reduce tons of nitrogen oxide emissio ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Pollution
problem for us, and the earth's atmosphere, it is caused by careless use of hazardous chemicals and fossil fuels, it may leave our planet uninhabitable in the future. Some pollution caused damage to o ... e carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO), sulfur dioxide (SO), and ozone. Incomplete burning of fossil fuels, cars, trucks, gas furnaces and stoves, and some industrial processes produces these po ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
'Vital resources to prevent further destruction of the Earth.
rming rate.Conservation simply means the careful usage of Earth's resources such as water, land and fossil fuels. There are several ways we can adopt to conserve these precious resources and these way ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Space Exploration. Is space exploration worth it? How Mars can help people if it was terraformed.
ges of space exploration and colonization can be quite effective and helpful. If we continue to use fossil fuels and minerals at the rate we're going we won't have much left for the future. Also, the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Space
Alternative Energy.
The United States depends on fossil fuels, like oil and coal, for energy. According to experts these sources will exhaust by the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Energy conservation in the home. A study on a typical suburban home electricity use. Lighting.
we as consumers bother to worry about energy conservation? The answer is quite simple. We are using fossil fuels to provide our energy that we mostly take for granted. This is a resource that will eve ... ct will also reduce the amount of Greenhouse emissions as a result of reduced use. It is clear that fossil fuels used to generate our power will not last forever. New ways to produce electricity are a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Acid Rain.
ems. It is an increase in the acidity of rain, caused by human activities such as the combustion of fossil fuels, that has turned acid rain into a problem. Highly acidic rain can damage or destroy aqu ... xide (CO2), which dissolves into water vapor in the atmosphere. Human activities such as the use of fossil fuels for energy can result in the release of sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrous oxides (NOx) ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Global Warming.
at release certain heat trapping gases into the air.One major cause of global warming is the use of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas that were formed from the remains of plan ... rgy. It was not until the mid-1800's, however, that we began to burn very large quantities of these fossil fuels. It has been estimated that between 1850 and 1950, approximately sixty billion tons of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays