Energy ResourcesBy Rodolfo Brandon Bernardino

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Nonrenewable Energy

• Fossil Fuels

- Coal

- Oil and Natural Gas

• Enrichable Uranium

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Coal

• Coal is mined• Sedimentary Rock• Formed from

- Underground

- Dead organic mater• Coal is burned in

factories to heat water that turns electric turbines.

Oil

• Oil is found through drilling

• It is used for many things:

• Burned like coal in power plants

• Refined to produce gasoline which is used in motor vehicles

Natural Gas

• Collected from natural gas wells

• Burned to turn turbines - Heat water and produce steam- Natural Gas/ Steam Combination Generator

• Used in Fuel Cells

Nuclear

• The uranium used is mined or milled before being processed

• After processing, pellets are placed into rods which are placed into bundles.

• Uranium bundles are used in Fission reactions- Fission; Splitting of uranium-235 atom by catching a free neutron

• Fusion- Two atoms collide to form one atom

Incineration

• Trash and waste are burned

• Heat produced is used to heat water

• The water changes to steam and turns turbines to generate electricity

Inexhaustible Energy

• Wind

• Solar

• Hydroelectric

• Geothermic

• Wave Energy

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Wind

• Windmills have blades that are pushed by wind

• These blades are connected to a turbine. When the blades spin, the turbine generates electricity.

Solar

• Converted in two different ways:

- Sunlight is redirected to a building to heat water…etc

- Sunlight is absorbed directly through solar cells

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Geothermic

• Heat from inside of Earth

- Tapped• May be used to heat

or cool homes• Heat used to

produce steam and turn turbineshttp://

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Wave Energy

• Waves are harnessed to produce electricity

• Direct Method

- Waves move a special turbine up and down

• New Method

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Renewable Energy - Biomass

Linkage

• http://www.bydesign.com/fossilfuels/links/html/natural_gas/gas_get.html

• http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/uses_eletrical.asp