Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of coal, oil, and natural gas as fuels.
Coal is most abundant. Advantages are:
energy dense, plentiful, easy to exploit, low cost, and little refinement.
Disadvantages: sub surface mining costs, impurities, air pollutants, particulates
Petroleum- liquid hydrocarbons which include oils, gas, and kerosene.
Discuss the advantages of crude oil for mobile fuel uses.
Discuss the disadvantages in extraction, pollution of air and water, leaks, and transport.
Examine natural gas as a fuel. How it is extracted, its energy density, transportation and burning problems.
View the fractioning of crude oil into a variety of products ranging from tar to gasoline.
Discuss the Hubbert curve and its implications.