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Energy
Resources
- Biofuels
- Renewable
- Can release greenhouse gasses- but if
its used as a methane gas fuel (rural
India there is little GHG emmision
- Renewable
- Coal
- Non
renewable
- Top 3
countries
with coal
reserves
- USA -
267,554 mil
tonnes
- Russia -
173,074
mil tonnes
- China -
126,215 mil
tonnes
- USA -
267,554 mil
tonnes
- Deep/opencast mining =
environmental damage
- GHG from
burning
- Heavy/bulky to
transport = more
GHG emissions
- Non
renewable
- Geothermal
- Renewable
- Large
scale use
limited to
volcanic
areas e.g.
Iceland
- Risk of eruptions and earthquakes
- Risk of emissions of sulphuric gases
- Risk of eruptions and earthquakes
- Top
producers:
USA,
Indonesia,
Philippines
- Top
Users:
China,
Iceland,
USA
- China and Iceland produce
their own GT energy
- China and Iceland produce
their own GT energy
- Cost effective
and reliable
- Land surface
may shrink
due to the
removal of
geothermal
resivoirs
- Renewable
- Natural
Gas
- Non renewable
- Middle east is rich in natural gas
- Russia has largest stores with 47,820 billion cubic metres
- Non renewable
- Hydroelecricity
- Renewable
+ Recyclable
- HEP is one
of the
largest of
the
traditional
5 major
sources of
energy
- China, Canada,
Brazil, and the
USA account for
47% of global
HEP generation
- Top
producers:
Canada,
China,
Russia
- Dependant on precipitation
- 63.9% of Norways power is HEP
- Renewable
+ Recyclable
- Nuclear
- Recyclable
- Australia has
the most
uranium
reserves with
460,000
tonnes. This is
followed
closely by
Canada
- Recyclable
- Oil
- Non renewable
- The Middle East is
rich in oil reserves as
the top 5 countries
with oil lie there
- Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabia
- Non renewable
- Solar
- Renewable
- Large areas of land need to be
covered to make good use of it
- Japan, Germany
and, the USA
dominate solar
energy production
- Largest
photovoltaic
plant is in
Mojave
Desert,
California
- Renewable
- Wind
- Renewable
- 0.8% of world
energy supply
- Germany
produce
23.6% of
global
capacity
- Renewable
- Tidal/Wave
- Renewable
- Barrages built to
harness tidal
power destroy
wildlife habitats
both upstream
and down stream
- Renewable
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