Non renewable resources
Traditional energy: wood, field crops, fecal material, peat
Conventional energy: coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear
Peat: an accumulation of partially decaying vegetation first stage of the formation of coal. Forms in wetlands, bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires and swamps.
conventional oil: relatively ample supply, low cost, high net energy yield easily transported, low land use, well developed technology.
Advantages: more natural gas than oil high energy net yield low cost burns a lot cleaner lower c02 emissions low land use transport by pipe.
Disadvantages: nonrenewable, releases some c02, environmental cost, methane can leak, difficult to transfer, can be shipped only as highly explosive LNG.
Hydraulic fracturing: technology for drilling oil and natural gas
Coal is older than oil also conventional
Traditional energy: wood, field crops, fecal material, peat
Conventional energy: coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear
Peat: an accumulation of partially decaying vegetation first stage of the formation of coal. Forms in wetlands, bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires and swamps.
conventional oil: relatively ample supply, low cost, high net energy yield easily transported, low land use, well developed technology.
Advantages: more natural gas than oil high energy net yield low cost burns a lot cleaner lower c02 emissions low land use transport by pipe.
Disadvantages: nonrenewable, releases some c02, environmental cost, methane can leak, difficult to transfer, can be shipped only as highly explosive LNG.
Hydraulic fracturing: technology for drilling oil and natural gas
Coal is older than oil also conventional