GEOL-1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lignite, Sour Gas
5 Feb 2018
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Geology in the news: new oil find onshore in alaska, 1. 2 billion barrels (bbls, barrel is a standard unit of measurement, largest onshore discovery in alaska in 30 years. Energy resources: everything we need requires a certain amount of energy. Energy sources: renewable- it replaces itself very quickly. You have the money in your bank account plus your paycheck. Technology well developed: we"ve been using them for a couple hundred years, we"ve gotten pretty good at using them, 3. Infrastructure built to run on them: power plants are used to using coal etc, we"re set up to use these things already. Nonrenewable if you use of most of the material it won"t replenish itself on a human time scale: 2. Deposits not uniformly distributed: some countries have much more than others leads to weird political situations and conflict over these materials, 3. Costs going up: also fluctuate back and forth, cost goes up- people look for something different, 4.
