Environmnetal Impacts of Energy Use
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- Created on: 25-05-18 14:55
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- Environmental Impacts of Energy Use
- Fuel Extraction
- Coal mining and oil drilling cause habitat loss
- Fuel Processing
- Refining produces waste and pollution through leaks and spills
- Equipment Manufacture
- Pollution from energy consumption, raw material use and waste made
- Site Devlopment
- Land loss and ecosystem disruption
- Waste Disposal
- Coal spoil/radioactive waste damages environment
- Transportation
- Pipeline and cable installation causes habitat disruption
- Affects future supplies
- Depletes existing resources
- Environmental damage from exploitation and use of fuel reserves
- More energy demand due to increased affluence and population size
- New Technologies Overcome Environmental Concerns
- Increase amount of energy available from exisitng resources
- New machinery allows excavation of deeper deposits
- Better technologies to harvest energy
- Better technologies to increase energy use efficiency
- Allow new resource exploitation
- Mapping of new sources for exploration
- New sources of energy (e.g. nuclear fusion)
- Secondary oil recovery
- As oil pressure in oil wells fall, fluids are injected to increase pressure and force more out
- Tertiary oil recovery
- Reduces viscosity to ease extraction
- Oil can be heated by steam injection or use solvents/detergents
- Fuel Extraction
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