GEO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Prince William Sound, Fossil Fuel
8 Dec 2020
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Renewable energy = replaced by environmental processes, as long as they are not used more quickly than they are replaced i. e. sustainability. Non-renewable energy = resources that are fine or are replaced at very slow rates. Valuable because have hydrocarbons = organic compounds consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Sediment layers of organic substances, under intense pressure, litteral fuels that are formed in the earth over millions of years from old organic material e. g. fossils/animals. World energy consumption by fuel type, 2010. Especially on oil, grown over the past several decades (pg. Oil not only for energy, but major component in plastics, chemicals, cosmetics, nylon, acrylic, vinyl. Oil is used to produce thousands of products everyday. Basins with shale oil and shale gas formation world. Canada"s energy resources 3 oil basins. Remote, frozen, costly, arctic marine environment being put at risk. Inadequate emergency response systems e. g. if there was an oil spill, hard to efficiently respond too.
