GEOLOGY 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Non-Renewable Resource, East Los Angeles College, Energy Independence
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Disproportionate amount of energy resources demanded and consumed in developed countries. Energy shocks: constant worries from past to present and to the future over the price, dependency, power failure. The amount of fossil fuels in the earth is finite. Energy transformation in the us from wood in the mid-1800s to fossil fuels in the mid- 1900s, the peak in use of wood was approx. It took something like 100 years for the full transition. Shortages of wood in 1812 in philadelphia led to experiments of burning coal, and the first oil well was completed in 1858. Another transition is in the making, from oil to alternative energy sources. Peak oil: the time when half of the earths oil extracted and used. Oil: unrenewable and being consumed too fast. Consequences: growing demands, water pollution, air pollution, global warming; global, economic, and political instability.
