CAS ES 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Oil Reserves, Change 2011, Williston Basin
24 Dec 2015
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The future of energy (part 1 of 3) The earth has a great many sources of energy, the. Includes: nonrenewable: fossil fuels and nuclear, renewables: wind, solar, hydroelectric, biomass, tidal, fusion. Note: we have plenty of fossil fuels only for the short term but they all significantly contribute to global warming and air quality. 87% of our energy is from fossil fuels: all are derived from ancient life that largely accumulated over the last half billion years of earth history. What are nonrenewable resources: utilized faster than replenished, once consumed, gone forever. 2 types: fossil fuels! (all from past life, coal, oil, gas, nuclear energy. Fossils fuel which are found in three main forms: petroleum, coal. All were derived from ancient life that accumulated over 100"s of millions of years. The beginning of the fossil fuel era: prior to the industrial revolution, wood was the energy source of the world.
