Fossil fuels

Title: Fossil fuels
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 512 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Fossil fuels

We get energy from sunlight, wind, nuclear plants, and damns… However, most of the energy that we use comes from fossil fuels. There are three major fossil fuels: Coal, oil and natural gas. These are composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur. Carbon is the major element in fossil fuels. We obtain energy from fossil fuels by burning them. Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel in the U.S. Yet it has a …showed first 75 words of 512 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 512 total…potential of ethanol, and develop engines and machines able to run mostly on ethanol. This would be a breakthrough in the field of fuels. An engine that runs on distilled grains and crops sounds like an unimaginable invention from a science-fiction movie. Ethanol has many advantages: For one thing, ethanol is renewable, and importantly, is an inexhaustible resource. As opposed to fossil fuels, ethanol will never run out. Secondly, Ethanol is relatively safe and non-toxic.

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