We get energy from sunlight, wind, nuclear plants, and damns... However, most of the points that we use come from fossil fuels. There are three primary fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. These are composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. Carbon is the major element in fossi...

Resources are the things that we can extract from the earth. Industries, which extract the earth's resources, include mining, forestry and oil extraction. Present-day civilisation is based upon a massive utilisation of non-replaceable minerals and fuels such as coal, oil and natural gasses. Oth...

There are many ways to produce electricity but unfortunately not all of them are clean and safe. Luckily here in Canada we have clean and safe alternatives to things like the burning of fossil fuels. We are the largest producer of hydropower in the world. Hydro energy is electricity made using water...

Propane is a colorless, gaseous alkane (A hydrocarbon containing only single carbon-carbon bonds). The chemical formula for propane is C3H8. It is readily liquefied by compression and cooling. Propane has a melting point of an unbelievable –189.9C and boils at just –42.2C. Propane occurs...

The Fuel Emissions Reduction Act Pollution in the United States is getting worse and worse by the day. Poor air quality is a serious issue and health risk in cities throughout the country. The main source of the pollution problem is our transportation. Cars produce roughly one half of the pollut...

Who really does care about trees? The answer is everyone should. Deforestation is an emerging environmental problem regarding forest depletion and clearing. It is commonly used-and abused-by radical environmentalists groups as a scapegoat for attacks on capitalism and big business-most notably by "G...

Energy is one of the most fundamental qualities in our lives. Almost everything in the world is run by energy. We need electricity to turn on the lights, gas to power our cars, and energy to give us heat to warm our homes. Today, we are totally dependent on an abundant and inexhaustible supply of...

Our environment faces many problems. This is becoming more and more evident every day. Inflation on essential items such as gasoline and electricity has increased ridiculously over the past half-century, and population growth and the demands placed on the worldwide agricultural system contributes t...

This article talks about how the hydrogen economy will be coming. There are a lot of obstacles that they must surpass to form a hydrogen economy. In the year 2003, President George W. Bush announced a 1.7 billion research program to develop a vehicle that would make the air cleaner and use less oil...

The Endangered EnvironmentThe old cliche "out of sight, out of mind" is the best way to summarize most of the world's perspective on the environment. It is most unfortunate that almost all of the people on earth cannot see first hand the rapid destruction of the homes of countless species. People ...

There are many issues involving the world we live in, one of which is energy. The world uses great amounts of energy each year. As the world is growing the total energy consumption is also increasing rapidly. It is said to rise by "59% from 1999 until 2020, from 382 to 607 quads." This ...

Advocacy Ultimately, we need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. On an individual level, contacting authorities that are in charge of these fossil fuels is what the author suggests. The Kyoto Protocol was "watered down" into a weaker version in a conference in Bonn, Germany thi...

Since the beginning of evolution, humans have been creating innovative ways to simplify life. From the discovery of fire to modern advances in technology, the main objective was to simplify adversity in life. Although modern advances in technology have proven advantageous, few people take the time t...

Global Warming The consequences of global warming have by now come to the attention of the majority of the population of the United States of America. The gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is due to an increased amount of carbon dioxide released into it. The burning of fossil f...

IntroductionThe purpose of the experiment was to understand and learn how to use Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy for analyzing the content of exhaust gas, carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide, CO, is formed from burning oil, gas, coal, and wood, and is the most common air pollutant in urban are...

Environmental Changes Weather changes all the time. The average patter of weather, called climate, usually stays pretty much the same for centuries if it is left to itself. However, the earth is not alone. People are taking actions that can change the earth and its climate in important ways. ...

What is the greenhouse effect? There is speculation on whether there is such an event as the greenhouse effect. Some scientists say that there is, while some scientists say that it is just the cycle of the Earth as far as the weather. The greenhouse effect is what we call the result of harmful level...

Imagine a world full of high technology machines. Robots doing the chores for us, cars flying in the air. Such an exciting and fun cite indeed. At the rate our technology is going today, this may not be a far-fetched future for us. Today we have phones that can connect to any phone in the world, cle...

In the world there are very many different environmental issues that effect the Earth. Our mere existence causes problems and poses great threats to our environment each day. Many people think they can go on blindly living their lives; that there is nothing they can do or that they have no ef...

Thermal Pollution: A Global Problem Recently, as a result of the increased energy demand, we've allowed our planet to begin overheating. With the introduction of more and more heated water into our lakes and rivers, and Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere we've managed to raise the temperature of ...

¡§Negative Impacts On Technologies¡ Advanced technologies are potential threats to devastate the living environment. Although technologies has helped human beings to adapt an easier way of life, however, in the long term it might not be as beneficial ...

The first way that food decays is Putrefaction. In this way, it is when biological decomposing of organic matter, with ill-smelling and tasting products. In this type of decomposition there is no oxygen present. The first step to the Putrefaction, a type of decomposition, is the material is decomp...

Global warming, the increase in our earth's surface temperature, is often confused with the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is what makes our planet suitable for life as we know it. It is a natural process that causes gases in the atmosphere to trap energy from the sun. This causes a r...

Global Warming is something that has been going on now for a long time. Over the years scientists have been telling people, that all the pollutants that we put in the air were doing damage to the earth and the ozone. Some scientists disagreed with that statement and because of that there was nothing...

Global warming is an increase in the earth\'s temperature due to fossil fuels, industry, and agricultural processes caused by human, natural, and other gas emissions. This results in an increased emission of greenhouse gases. Short-wave solar radiation sinks into the Earth\'s atmosphere and warms it...