PETROLEUM
Why is it important?
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Where do we find it?
We find petroleum usually found in vast underground reservoirs where ancient seas were located. Petroleum reservoirs can be found beneath land or the ocean floor. There are huge quantities of petroleum found under Earth's surface and in tar pits that bubble to the surface. Petroleum even exists far below the deepest wells that are developed to extract petroleum.
What do we use it for?
We use 46% of our petroleum on gasoline, 20% on heating oil or diesel, 8% for jet fuel, 7% for propane/propylene 4% on still gas, and 2% on petroleum coke. We use petroleum on many things for our everyday lives. We use petroleum for gas, which makes our cars run so we can get to school or work. We use it for pretty much to make all of our locomotives run. We also use petroleum for electricity and heat. There are many things that we use petroleum for, those were just a few of them.
How can we use it responsibly?
We can use petroleum responsibly by using it for only things that we need for our everyday lives, like gas for all of our locomotives that take us to school and work. We can also use it responsibly by trying to use it for other things that we need like heat, and electricity. We could even try inventing a stove that runs on petroleum (or crude oil).
NATURAL GAS
Why is it important?
Natural Gas is the cleanest-burning fossil fuel with as much 30% less carbon than oil and as much as 60% more carbon than coal. It offers an environmentally acceptable option to power peoples lives today. It will also help to meet the world's rising demand for more clean energy in the future.
Where do we find it?
Natural gas is found in deep underground rock formations or associated with other hydrocarbon reservoirs in coal beds and as methane clathrates. Petroleum is also another resource and fossil fuel found in close proximity to, and with natural gas. Most natural gas was created over time by two mechanisms: biogenic and thermogenic. Biogenic gas is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, landfills, and shallow sediments. Deeper in the earth, at greater temperature and pressure, thermogenic gas is created from buried organic material.[4][5]
What do we use it for?
We use natural gas for man y of our household needs including: stoves,
How can we use it responsibly?
Natural gas vehicles can help cut our nation's dependence on foreign sources of energy. And, because natural gas burns cleaner than other fuel sources, with less pollutants and no mercury, increasing its use in power generation could dramatically speed U.S. efforts to advance cleaner air in our communities.
Coal
Why is it important?
Coal is very important because it helps create 54% of the United States' electricity. People don't usually this, but if it wasn't for coal, electricity would be too much money to afford. Progress in America would be severely crippled as a nation all-together. Coal has been around for a very long time and is often overlooked on how important it is to the earth.
Where do we find it?
Coal comes from deep holes in the ground called mines. America's most famous mines are in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Illinois. Coal is mined all across the world, not just in America.
What do we use it for?
There are many, many important uses for coal worldwide. Some of the significant uses are: electricity, steel production, cement manufacturing, and they use it as a liquid fuel. There are many, many, many, many more uses for coal that are not listed.
How can we use it responsibly?
We can use coal responsibly by making sure that there is less destruction of vegetation and top-soil. We can also use coal responsibly by making sure that less streams and rivers are not destroyed by mine waste by the carelessness of the miners.
NUCLEAR ENERGY
Why is it important?
Nuclear energy is important because it is one of the world's most controversial topics since it's first set of testing in the early 20th century. Nuclear energy's power is used for life-saving procedures as well as the destruction of some of our own mankind relatives during war time. It is made out of energy that binds subatomic particle together against magnetic forces. Nuclear energy presents one of the most destructive energy forms man has ever known.
Where do we find it?
Nuclear reactors produce 13-14% of the world's electricity in power plants and accounts for 6% of the world's energy. France and Japan account for %0% of the Earth's nuclear generated electricity, and the U.S. has been producing 20% of our nuclear generated electricity worldwide since 1991.
What do we use it for?
Although nuclear energy is used mainly for the production of electricity in nuclear power plants this not only material that can be given. It appears in many aspects in our everyday life and science. Nuclear tech has a great importance to the development and process to the measurement automation and quality control. Nuclear technology is also used in making plastics and sterilization of single-use products.
How can we use it responsibly?
we can use nuclear energy responsibly by making sure that no one gets very much hurt in the nuclear energy power plants and by trying to use our nuclear tech way more efficiently and effectively. Since we use nuclear energy in many aspects in our every day life we should use it wisely by not wasting all of the nuclear energy that we can get.