Fuel Types
Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas are examples of this.
What is Fossil Fuels?
A type of energy characterized by the ability not to be depletable upon use.
What is Renewable Energy?
Where electricity is harnessed from nuclear fission.
What is Nuclear Power Plant?
Energy sources found in nature.
What is Natural Energy?
Making no release of carbon.
What is Carbon Neutral?
Methane is the primary component of this Fossil Fuel.
What is Natural Gas?
The movement of water powers this.
What is Hydrologic Power?
The splitting of an atom.
What is nuclear fission?
Most methods of electricity generation share this part of the process.
What is steam turning a turbine?
An energy source available to be bought and sold to the public.
What is Commercial Energy Source?
This can be used to create Bitumen, Jet Fuel, Gasoline, and more.
What is Oil?
PV Cells harness this type of Energy.
What is Solar Energy?
The energy given off by the nucleus of a radioactive isotope.
What is Radioactivity?
Gas trapped in semi-permeable, sedimentary rock layers, such as shale, is released by cracking the rock with pressurized water.
What is Fracking?
A form of biomass fuel characterized by its black, porous texture.
What is Charcoal?
The most dense form of Coal.
What is Anthracite?
The rise and fall of ocean water is harnessed for this.
What is Tidal Energy?
The heating of water bodies near a power plant that can deplete Dissolved Oxygen concentrations.
What is Thermal Pollution?
When land is cleared for roads and pipelines that transport drilling equipment, it causes this negative environmental consequence.
What is Habitat Fragmentation?
This is used to predict the production rate of a finite resource, such as oil, over time.
What is Hubbert Curve?
A fuel source using biomass, such as Peat or Wood.
What is Subsistence Fuels?
This is one of the only forms of renewable energy that can operate at a constant rate.
What is Geothermal Energy?
This is how many U.S. States are partially powered by Nuclear Energy.
What is 28 States?
World's largest oil sands reserve.
What is Alberta, Canada?
In terms of quality, this form of coal is between litumite and anthracite.
What is Bituminous Coal?