CHM310H1 Lecture Notes - Water-Gas Shift Reaction, Oil Sands, Proven Reserves
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Carbon barrier, nuclear 1 chapter, renewable 2 chapters: fossil fuels- that are there to be extracted, major fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, how much fossil fuel left to be extracted. Shale oil (oil coming from a c rich rock) If you try to fuel the world with just gas and oil, without coal, (this is what canada is doing now. It is quite forcible that in your lifetime lot of the oil and gas will get wiped out: what happens if we run out of oil, third of our fossil fuels usage now tranportaion related. It is going through a couple of reactions which have been known for a couple of hundred years ago, something called coal gas. Was used for street lamps and can be seen in old houses: the way you derive it is you take c and burn it, oxidize it, in modern oxygen. You don"t have to oxidize c necessarily with oxygen.
