Energy Resource Plan

Energy Resource Plan

University Of Phoenix

SCI 275

Student

November 23, 2010

Overview

This work is about energy. Energy can be renewable or nonrenewable.

Problem with non-renewable energy

Everything that is done requires energy. Energy is required to heat where we live, to cool where we live, heat our water and to provide light are some of the uses that is relied upon with energy. Unfortunately, most of the energy that is used comes from non-renewable resources. Nonrenewable resources include nuclear, coal, oil and natural gas. All nonrenewable energy produces a waste that is not good for the environment and must be disposed. When oil, coal or natural gas is spent the byproduct are hydrocarbons that go into the atmosphere. When nuclear is spent, the byproduct is radioactive waste that is toxic for thousands of years.

Problem with acquiring non-renewable resources

To get these nonrenewable resources, they must be taken out of the earth. To take coal out of the earth, one of the ways is to dig a large hole and take the coal out. Once all the coal is taken out, little is done to the area. The topsoil has been missing for some time and the area around where the coal was mined is now polluted with iron sulfide from the byproducts of the coal mining. There is no plant life either because what is left from the digging for coal from the area is toxic to plants.

To get oil out of the ground it must be pumped to the surface. The oil could be in a rainforest, where thousands of trees have to be taken down to get the equipment to drill for oil. The oil could be under the ocean where platforms to drill for oil have to float. The oil could be in an area where there is turmoil. As oil is pumped form the ground, some spillage occurs, when oil is spilled on the ground or in the water, which contaminates the land, which eventually contaminates the groundwater. When oil is spilled in the ocean, ocean life is coated with oil and die.

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