GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Lng Carrier, Oil Sands, Radioactive Waste
30 Sep 2020
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What the world provides for us (coal, oil, wood, water, people) Non-renewable, take a long time to replace, or are never replaced. Renewable, can be replaced in a somewhat timely fashion. Fossil fuels; well known and widely known natural resources **oil** Major technical, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th 19th century. Energy sources, 1900s cars become popular, henry ford, oil takes up more, coal takes up. Non-renewable energy resources in order (wood, coal, oil, natural gas) less. Us coal reserves should last about 250 years. Reserves: must be economically feasible to extract. It changes as technology improves, we can eventually get more resources. + can be converted into liquid or gaseous fuels, increases prices. Coal produces more atmospheric pollution that other fuels. Regional shares of proved coal see maps on this slide and previous one. 40% of the commercial energy consumed in the world. Due to transportation, shipping is the largest.
