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oEnergy can have many forms: kinetic, potential, light,
sound, gravitational, elastic, electromagnetic or nuclear.
o Energy are broadly classifies into two main groups:
Renewable Energy
Non-renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar energy is the energy derived from the sun through the form of solar
radiation.
Solar powered electrical generation relies on photovoltaics and heat
engines. A partial list of other solar applications include daylighting, solar
hot water, solar cooking and high temperature process heat for industrial
purposes.
Solar technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or
active solar depending on the way they capture, convert and distribute
solar energy.
Active solar techniques include the use of photovoltaic panels and solar
thermal collectors to harness the energy.
Passive solar techniques include orienting a building to the Sun, selecting
materials with favorable thermal mass or light dispersing properties, and
designing spaces that naturally circulate air.
Bio-fuel
Liquid bio-fuel is usually either bio-alcohol such as
bio-ethanol or an oil such as bio-diesel.
Bio-ethanol is an alcohol made mostly from sugar
and starch crops. With advanced technology being
developed, cellulosic biomass, such as trees and
grasses, are also used as feed stocks for ethanol
production.
Ethanol can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure
form, but it is usually used as a gasoline additive to
increase octane and improve vehicle emissions.
Bio-ethanol is widely used in USA and in Brazil.
Bio-diesel is made from vegetable oils,
animal fats or recycled greases. Bio-diesel can
be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form,
but it is usually used as a diesel additive to
reduce levels of particulates, carbon
monoxide, and hydrocarbons from diesel-
powered vehicles.
Bio-diesel is produced from oils or fats and is
the most common bio-fuel in Europe. Bio-fuels
provided 1.8% of the world's transport fuel in
2008
Geothermal energy
Wide availability
Lower running cost
Low pollution
Disadvantages
Unreliable supply
Usually produced in small quantities
Often very difficult to store
Fissile Fuel Production
Reserves-to-production (R/P) ratios Years
Total world proved oil reserves reached 1700.1
billion barrels at the end of 2014, sufficient to
meet 52.5 years of global production. The
largest addition to reserves came
from Saudi Arabia, adding 1.1 billion barrels.
The largest decline came from Russia, where
reserves fell by 1.9 billion barrels. OPEC
countries continue to hold the majority
of the worlds reserves, accounting for 71.6%
of the global total. South & Central America
continues to hold the highest R/P ratio, more
than 100 years. Over the past
decade, global proved reserves have increased
by 24%, or more than 330 billion barrels.
NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES
Earth minerals and metal ores, fossil fuels (coal, petroleum, natural gas)
and groundwater in certain aquifers are all considered non-
renewable resources, though individual elements are almost
always conserved.
NUCLEAR ENERGY
Nuclear fission uses uranium to
create energy.
Nuclear energy is a
nonrenewable resource because
once the uranium is used.
Fossil fuels
2. With time, sand, sediments and impermeable rock settled on the organic
matter, trapping its' energy within the porous rocks. That formed pockets of
coal, oil and natural gas.
3. Earth movements and rock shifts create spaces that force to collect these
energy types into well-defined areas. With the help of technology, engineers
are able to drill down into the seabed to tap the stored energy, which we
commonly know as crude oil.
Coal
the energy gained from the reaction is greater than the energy put into the
reaction.
The spark represents the energy need to break the carbon-carbon and carbon-
hydrogen bonds of the hydrocarbon molecule as well as the oxygen-oxygen
bond of the oxygen molecule.
The typical C-C bond requires 350 kJ/mol to break, the typical C-H bond
requires 413 kJ/mol, and the O-O bond requires about 498 kJ/mol
The H-O bonds of water release about 464 kJ/mol of energy when formed and
the C=O bonds of CO2 release about 800 kJ/mol when formed. The net outcome
is the release of energy in the form of heat.
Seven Sisters
"Seven Sisters" was a term coined in the 1950s by businessman Enrico,
then-head of the Italian state oil company Eni, to describe the seven oil
companies which formed the "Consortium for Iran" cartel and dominated
the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
The group comprised Anglo-Persian Oil
Company (now BP), GulfOil (later part of Chevron), Standard Oil of
California (SoCal, now Chevron), Texaco (later merged into
Chevron), Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso,
later Exxon), and Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony,
later Mobil, now part of ExxonMobil)
International Oil Companies