Fossil Fuel Dependency and Americans SOC 120 The first Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th century; it began in the United Kingdom, and eventually spread through Europe and into the United States. It was never imagined that it could cause issues. The Industrial Revolution gave us the ability to change agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, technology, mining and how they were taken care of. When we replaced organic fuels, to the use of fossil fuels in the second Industrial Revolution
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There are several alternative energy sources to oil like solar energy, biofuels, wind energy, water, and geothermal. With finite natural oil, coal and gas reserves, humans must plan on alternative energy sources to survive. Carbon Emissions from fossil fuels are causing catastrophic global warming by tapping heat in the atmosphere, melting, polar and glacial ice with cascading effects. This paper discusses the various possible alternative energy solutions for a new sustainable way of life on planet
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People depend on energy everyday for cooking, lighting, cooling, and warming our homes and automobiles. People consume a great amount of energy. Energy is generated from non-renewable fuels. When people use non renewable energy harmful pollutants are let loose into the air and water. The more people operate ones vehicle the energy power plants produce gasoline that burns which releases pollutants. Another problem is the cost; people are noticing that ones public service utility bill is on the rise
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Problems are human judgments about situations. Many question and steps have to be taking. Also with an ethical solutions in place. I’ve found that The Five P’s from my text book if placed right cover’s those questions to most problems although everyone problems or challenges maybe different you can use techniques to decide on a course of action. One of my listed above is fear of failure. I think when it comes to education and failure that can present a big problem, an attempt to impose expectations
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Burning fossil fuels such as oil and coal are changing the climate and making thousands of Americans sick. Coal burning power plants are poisoning the air and water. “Fossil fuels account for more than 80% of US global warming” (Jon Van, 1988). Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide in the air, creating a greenhouse effect that traps heat in the atmosphere making the Earth heat up. “Each year, an average of 24,000 Americans die as a result of pollution from coal burning power plants” (Greepeace
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Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies S. Pacala, et al. Science 305, 968 (2004); DOI: 10.1126/science.1100103 The following resources related to this article are available online at www.sciencemag.org (this information is current as of March 6, 2007 ): Updated information and services, including high-resolution figures, can be found in the online version of this article at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/305/5686/968 Downloaded
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Low input high diversity biomass Paper: Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass Author(s): Tilman, David; Hill, Jason; Lehman, Clarence Source: SCIENCE Volume: 314 Issue: 5805 Pages: 1598-1600 DOI: 10.1126/science.1133306 Published: DEC 8 2006 Times Cited: 532 (from Web of Science) Due to the growing demand of energy needs in combination with global warming and the greenhouse gas emissions we have to develop a sustainable way of producing energy. One
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Alternative Energy Energy is an extremely important resource for people and people can’t live without energy. When energy vanishes from people’s life can cause of paralyzed international institutions. The common energy which people use every day is a fossil fuel such as coal, oil and natural gas. Unfortunately, people face some serious problems with above energy sources such as exhaust resources, greenhouse effect and diverse environment pollution. All of the world barrels of oil reserves have already
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biomass and ethanol as renewable fuels. Moreover, with using the renewable energy we can easily avoid energy related environmental problems, such as, Acid rain which “is a form of pollution depletion in which SO2 and NOx produced by the combustion of fossil fuels are transported over great distances through the atmosphere and deposited via precipitation on the earth’’(solar energy engineering), Ozone layer, Global climate change, and Nuclear energy. The threat of global warming and the burning of oil
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Why is renewable energy important? Today, the United States relies heavily on fossil fuels and nuclear power to generate its electricity. The result is a system that lacks diversity and security, threatens the health of our citizens, jeopardizes the stability of Earth's climate, and robs future generations of clean air, clean water, and energy independence. Fortunately, renewable energy resources such as wind, solar, bioenergy, and geothermal are capable of meeting a significant proportion of America's
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