ENGR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Non-Renewable Resource, Descriptive Statistics, Wind Turbine
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Non-renewable resources cannot be replaced (or are replaced much more slowly that they are used) Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy resources that formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago. Oil, natural gas, and coal are the most common fossil fuels. All fossil fuels contain stored energy from the sun, which can be converted into other kinds of energy. Burning coal is a common way to generate electrical energy. Petroleumfinen is used to make gasoline, wax, and plastics. Natural gas is often used in home heating. Electric generators convert the chemical energy in fossil fuels into electrical energy by a process. Another way to generate electrical energy is to use nuclear energy. In a process called nuclear fission, the nucleus of a radioactive atom is split into two smaller nuclei which releases nuclear energy. Because the supply of radioactive elements is limited.
