1. Energy and Fossil Fuels
Chapter 13, section4

2. Offshore oil rigs

4. Fossil Fuels What are they?
Materials that contain stored chemical potential energy and that were formed millions of year ago from plant and animal remains.

5. How are fossil fuels used to create electricity?

6. Multiple energy transformations
Textbook page 464
Multiple energy transformations

7. Thermal electricity How it works
Thermal Electricity - How it Works - YouTube

8. What’ the problem of using fossil fuels as our nations energy source?
It’s a nonrenewable energy source!

9. Pollution

10. The primary emissions from burning coal are
Sulfur dioxide – (SO2)  contributes to acid rain and respiratory illnesses
Nitrogen Oxides - (Nox)  contributes to smog and respiratory illnesses.
Carbon dioxide – (CO2)  primary greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change……..
Mercury and other heavy metal causes neurological damage and cancer..

11. Sulfur dioxide – (SO2)  contributes to acid rain and respiratory illnesses
Nitrogen Oxides - (Nox)  contributes to smog and respiratory illnesses.

13. Acid Rain damage

14. Acid rain damage

15. Acid Rain Eating Washington DC
Acid Rain Eating Washington, D.C. - YouTube

16. Carbon dioxide – (CO2)  primary greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change……..

17. CLIMATE 101 with BILL NYE - YouTube

19. What are the Impacts of Climate change?
If the Earth keeps getting warmer, up to one–fourth of all the plants and animals on Earth could become extinct within 100 years.
Extreme heat can cause illnesses such as heat cramps, heat stroke, and even death.
Changes in weather patterns, more rain, more droughts …more extreme storms.
Melting glaciers --- rising sea levels
Shrinking sea ice
Warmer oceans - increased in ocean acidity

20. Climate change …aka …global warming
A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change US EPA