Energy
Amount of high-quality energy available from a given quantity of an energy resource minus the high-quality energy needed to make the energy available.
What is net energy?
Underground deposits of gases consisting of 50–90% methane and smaller amounts of heavier gaseous hydrocarbon compounds such as propane and butane.
What is natural gas?
Russia and the United States are this and the oil industry.
What countries are the largest oil producers?
Low net energy, Higher overall cost, Produces long-lived harmful radioactive wastes, Promotes availability of nuclear weapons.
What are disadvantages of nuclear power?
Energy sold in the marketplace.
What is commercial energy?
Nuclear power, natural gas, coal, oil are examples of which type of resources.
What Are non-renewable energy resources?
Gooey liquid consisting of hydrocarbon compounds and other compounds, formed from the remains of ancient organisms over the course of millions of years.
What is crude oil?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. 13 Countries that hold about 81% of the world’s proven crude oil preserves.
What is OPEC?
Method of producing nuclear power by splitting a large nucleus into two or more smaller nuclei. The release of neutrons results in a chain reaction that releases an enormous amount of energy.
What is nuclear fission?
Point in time, usually after about a decade of pumping, when the pressure in an oil well or oil field drops and its rate of crude oil production starts declining.
What is peak production?
These resources exist in fixed and limited amounts. Where these resources are replenished by natural processes.
What is the difference between nonrenewable energy and renewable?
Method that uses high-pressure pumps to blast huge volumes of a mixture of water, sand, and various chemicals into a well to fracture the porous rock and release natural gas or oil.
What is Hydraulic fracturing?
Advantages-Ample supplies, Versatile fuel, Medium net energy, Emits less CO2 and other air pollutants than other fossil fuels when burned.
Disadvantages- Low net energy for LNG, Production and delivery may emit more CO2 and CH4 per unit of energy than coal, Fracking uses and pollutes large volumes of water, Potential groundwater pollution from fracking.
What the advantages and disadvantages of
natural gas?
Low environmental impact (without accidents), Emits one-sixth as much CO2 as coal, Low risk of accidents in modern plants.
What are advantages of nuclear power?
Method of producing nuclear power in which the nuclei of two isotopes of a light element are forced together at extremely high temperatures until they fuse to form a heavier nucleus, which releases energy in the process.
What is nuclear fusion?
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
What are fossil fuels?
Complex process of heating crude oil to separate it into various fuels and other components with different boiling points.
What is refining?
United States, China and Japan are know as this in the oil industry.
What are the largest consumers?
During a routine safety check a power surge occurred. Efforts to stabilize the reactor instead caused damage to fuel assemblies and explosions to occur. Fission products were released into the atmosphere. 2 people died in the explosion, 28 people died with in weeks from radiation, death toll due to cancer is predicted to reach 9,000 people.
What is the nuclear accident that occurred at Chernobyl?
Cooking, heating, industrial processes, vehicle fuel, powering turbines to generate electricity.
What are some uses for natural gas?
Fossil fuel formed from the remains of land plants that were buried and exposed to intense heat and pressure for 300 to 400 million years.
What is coal?
Usable by-product from crude oil refinement that is utilized to create other chemicals and as an ingredient in products such as plastics, synthetic fibers, paints, medicines, and cosmetics.
What are petrochemicals?
Mining for this degrades the land and causes air and water pollution. Burning this creates toxic ash and causes air pollution, which harms human health and the environment.
What is coal?
Was caused by a small off shore earthquake that sent water over the power plants protective seawalls. The water knocked out the emergency core cooling systems of the plants reactors. Radioactivity was released into the atmosphere and coastal waters.
What is the nuclear accident that occurred at Fukushima Daiichi?
Known deposit from which oil can be extracted profitably at current prices with current technology.
What is a proven oil reserve?