Fossil+Fuel+Power

By Dan Pino & Shay Hayden
 * Fun, Friendly, Fossil Fuel **

What is Fossil Fuel? Fossil fuel is a non renewable energy provided by the fossilized remains of prehistoric plants and animals. Such fuels that exist are natural gas, oil, and coal. = Advantages = Simple to capture energy Inexpensive A large machine can be built to run on very little fossil fuel Machines are already built to run on it [1]

A diagram showing the properties of crude oil [3] It is non renewable Fossils take thousands of years to form. Mining fossil fuels lasts for a short time before they run out.
 * Disadvantages **[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Crude_Oil_Distillation.png width="258" height="261" align="right"]]

** Process ** 1. Plants and animals die. 2. Their remains stay as the world forms around them. 3. They soon are buried beneath the ground. 4. After millions of years, they are turned into fossil fuels from pressure and heat. 5. Fossil fuels are found beneath the earth’s surface. 6. They are then mined and brought above ground 7. The substances are refined To Be Turned Into Electricity: **A Coal Power Plant. 1. The new fuels are burned under boiling chamber 2. Steam from boiling chamber turns turbines 3. Motion is converted into electricity media type="youtube" key="UbtZwZrotDY" height="385" width="480" 1. The new fuels are burned inside the machine it is powering 2. small explosions happen in the fuel 3. explosions move turbines in engine 4. turbines move/power vehicle
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 * To Be Used Directly As Fuel: **

There aren't really any types of energy being transferred in steps 1-6, but  the whole time the fossil fuels obtain chemical potential energy. In step 1 of the process of being turned into electricity, the chemical potential energy turns into heat energy, which turns into kinetic energy as the water boils. The kinetic energy continues as the water vapors move and turn the turbines, then the turbines turn the kinetic energy into electrical energy. When the fossil fuels are used directly as fuel, the chemical potential energy turns into heat and kinetic energy, the kinetic energy then turns the turbines and the turbines keep the kinetic energy going by moving the rest of the parts of the vehicle.  A Coal Plant where the whole process Happens [2]
 * Conservation of Energy **

**Vocabulary**
= = Condense: To change from gas into a liquid, like gas does.

Chemical Potential Energy:The energy that is stored in the chemical bonds of atoms and compounds. Fossils have this.

Heat Energy: The random movement of particles within an object that is associated with this. Burning fossil fuels creates this.

Fossil Fuel Power: The capture of energy from the burning of natural gas, coal, or petroleum.

Emission: Matter or energy that an object or a particle releases. Burning fossil fuels create this.

Fossil: Any matter that comes from a once-living (and carbon-based) organism. Fossils are transformed into fossil fuels.

Chemical Reaction: The process that substances are made into different substances. This happens when fossils are changed into oil, gas, and coal and also when they are burned.

Non Renewable Resources: Resources that are used up and cannot be replaced. Fossil fuels are non Renewable.

Petroleum: Crude oil.

Pocket: A subterranean cavity where oil and/or gas is trapped.  [1] Advantages and Disadvantages. 2008. Energy Matters.4/6/10. http://library.thinkquest.org/20331/types/fossil/advant.html

[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coal_power_plant_Datteln_2.jpg

[3] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Crude_Oil_Distillation.png