Atlee Carr
Professor Penwell
ENGL 1102
17 November 2016
Crude awakening of fossil fuels and a bright replacement
In the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, a large explosion in an oil drilling company caused an estimated 5 million barrels of oil to be dumped into the water. Many sea turtles and dolphins have been found dead since the oil spill started. This spill is one of the worst oil spills recorded and cost an estimate of 12.5 billion dollars after considering the cleanup and extra expenses. Oil is a popular fossil fuel used to power machines. However, in the process of utilizing fossil fuels such as oil, we are putting our world and environment at a risk. Oil can be very damaging to life when spilled in water. In contrast, by using alternative forms of energy, such as solar energy, we are helping our planet by keeping it healthier. Solar energy does not pose a threat to our environment and health as fossil fuels such as oil have in recent years. Our society should focus on solar energy as an alternative to fossil fuels due to the decreasing cost of solar panels, the reduced environmental damages of air pollution, deforestation, and water pollution.
Solar energy is constantly improving, whether that be financially or more efficiently. As a result, solar panels, a large focus in solar technology, are becoming less expensive. The price of producing panels has decreased dramatically. However, a popular belief is that solar energy is more expensive than fossil fuels. A recent Arabia
Over the course of the novel, John Steinbeck beautifully describes nature through symbolism to help the reader understand the striking, strong story line. For example, at the beginning of the story, he gives us a description of the setting.
The demand for oil is ever expanding as the world’s energy needs continue to increase resulting in companies striving to meet the demand for oil production. The huge costs of oil importation are what ultimately push the need to tap into our backyard rather than import oil from countries around the world for significantly higher prices. While oil corporations can be credited with providing people minimized costs of products due to their offshore oil drilling efforts. The fact of the matter is that having a cleaner environment is seen as being more vital than having a cheaper product at the cost of an unhealthier environment. Though, many experts agree that the potential risks of offshore oil drilling are often exaggerated, recent disasters such as the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill have proven
There are many renewable and nonrenewable resources that are being harmed in this world. One resource is oil. In 2010, there happened to be an explosion of oil in the Gulf Of Mexico which killed 11 people. 87 days after that happened, there was an estimate of 3.19 million barrels of oil leaked into the gulf. There were many problems about the Gulf Of Mexico oil spill but solutions are being made to help.
is an examination of how different sources of energy impact the environment. The information in the article includes the results of a study they conducted to ascertain how the different sources of energy affect the environment and the ecosystems. Therefore, it looks at the different sources of energy and how efficient they are from the environmental conservation point of view. According to the journal article, all sources of energy including natural gas, Oil, and water have adverse effects on land and the general environment but of all the three, the most environmentally destructive source of energy is oil, which places natural gas at a better position when looking at how good each of the sources of energy are I relation to their impact on the natural environment. This article will be helpful when making a comparison o the benefits and effects that oil and natural gas and oil have on the environment.
A little over seven years ago, on April 20, 2010, the BP oil company’s actions created the greatest manmade disaster to the environment in the United States history. In the aftermath of this disaster, thousands of marine organisms were injured and placed in life threatening scenarios. Thanks to the spill, the Gulf of Mexico and other parts of the ocean surrounding the gulf was flooded with an estimated amount of 205.8 million gallons of oil (Sakashita). The damages to the ecosystem and other organisms in the environment was detrimental, but the quantity loss of such a finite resource was devastating to the world. Society over uses and wastes non-renewable resources, therefore, should convert to a more infinite source of energy.
4. The price of coal, natural gas and oil and other fossil fuels tends to increase continuously. Solar energy, on the other hand, is free.
Being such a necessary and overused resource makes it a hotly contested subject and global issue. The United States is one of the biggest importers and users of oil in the world, which makes our need of it a major influence on several global markets. Our heavy reliance on dirty fuels, as well as every other industrialized country in the world, will lead to massive effects on the climate of our Earth. This in addition, has led to violence and war, particularly in the Middle East, over the ownership and distribution of oil and other energy resources, which in the end only serves to profit big oil industries. This problem will not stop or slow down, as the demand for energy will only increase as the world’s population and global economy continues to expand. For mainly these reasons, which will be handled more in-depth throughout this paper, the need for clean alternative energy is paramount and must be addressed within the foreseeable future should we otherwise suffer the consequences.
Even though offshore oil drilling may increase the national budget of a nation, it destroys the environment in return by contaminating water. If oil spills are not prevented, than humans and animals will be killed by drinking the contaminated water. When oil is drilled from under the ocean, other substances including mercury, arsenic, and lead are also brought up into the water. This is serous because these substances are all fatal to sea creatures. Seismic waves are used to find oil underwater, but they confuse and harm many different sea
The research question that Duncan, Wilkerson and England (2006) were concerned with in the article, “Cleaning up their act: The effects of marriage and cohabitation on licit and illicit drug use”, is whether an individual’s frequency of engaging in health-risk behaviour is impacted by marriage and cohabitation. More precisely, the authors investigated the effect of young adults’ first experience with marriage and cohabitation on binge drinking, marijuana use and cigarette smoking. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2014; 2015), participating in these behaviours has adverse effects on an individual’s health. Marriage, and to a lesser extent cohabitation, have long been associated with a ‘cleaning up’ process. For example, a young adult is expected to abstain or limit behaviour typical of the ‘single life’ once entering a monogamous marriage. Furthermore, individuals who marry are more likely to be past the standard age of involvement in the aforementioned health-risk behaviours, and desire the approval of their spouse. In essence, the authors aimed to test the extent of the causal relationship between health-risk behaviour and the transitions of cohabitation and marriage in young adults.
Recently, the price of unrenewable energy resource such as oil, coral and natural gas is increasing by time because of rare and more and more usage for individual and industries. Solar panels which use energy from Sun are considered as renewable energy through the form of solar radiation, UV. Solar technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they
According to Source B, solar power is defined as the collection of solar radiation to produce electricity. While the energy of the sun is free and abundant, debates have grown whether or not it provides for our energy needs. Is solar energy clean or does it pollute our environment. Solar energy is the answer to the Earth’s energy needs for the future because, it will get cheaper, be more efficient, and it produces no pollution during operation. First, solar power energy will soon be cheaper. While others may say that the installation is expensive, will become cheaper throughout the decades. Source C says that we will hit a peak in oil where we will start exporting as oil prices rise. This means as oil prices rise, solar energy will become cheaper.
This paper will discuss the three main fossil fuels which are oil, coal, and natural gas. This research shows how the fossil fuels are formed, where they could be found, and explain how they were formed over millions of years. This paper will show the numerous advantages of fossil fuels compared to the disadvantages and how they are hurting the Earth. Fossils fuels are critical to the function of everyday life. The world would be a different if fossil fuels and their uses were not to of use.
There are many different types of economic problems that this world faces and one major problem is that we (all the people on the planet) are using too much of our non-renewable energy. Using too much of this non-renewable can raise concern that we will eventually run out of the energy that human civilization runs on. We have two different types of energy in this world, non-renewable and renewable. renewable energy is energy that is natural to this earth and we wont run out of it anytime soon. But non-renewable energy are very important sources like natural gas, oil, and coal and eventually these very important energy sources will not be available to the human use anymore. The term “non-renewable” means that there is only a certain amount of this energy source on this earth, so the faster we keep burning through all these non-renewable energy sources the faster we will run out of them. Now, if we run out of these non-renewable energy sources our world would turn chaotic. Everything we do relies on these three different kinds of energy. For example, if we ran out of these energy sources we would not be able to drive cars, use our cell phones, or even have heat for your homes. Eventually, the goal would be to use our advanced technology to find other renewable energy sources that serve the same purpose as the non-renewable energy sources we use today so we will not
Developed and developing economies worldwide are largely dependent on crude oil. To help meet these demands, economical transport of crude oil is utilized via marine methods. Sea passage, however, is associated with many risks that can be encountered during any given journey. These include accidents, sabotage and pirate attacks. The worst possible consequence is an oil spill. Oil pollution is one of the most disturbing disasters in oil-producing countries. It is also one of the most widespread and influential sources of water pollution. Many regions in the world have suffered from oil spills and their negative environmental impacts. In each year, 0.1% of oil spills are in water and this has been continuously increasing 1. Oil spills are caused by natural leaks or by human activities 1 , and they can have significant and long impacts on marine environment 1,2.
The world of today is fuelled by fossil fuels. Petroleum products like oil are used for generating electricity, generating light and heat, manufacturing, and vehicle fuels, among numerous other uses. Much of these fuels are extracted from below the Earth’s surface using machinery and technology, some of which may be decades old – but as technology has proven itself to be unreliable at times, accidents such as oil spills are inevitable.