Non-Renewable Energy
- Created by: Sophie3745
- Created on: 18-03-18 11:33
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- Non - Renewable Energy
- Advantages
- Cheap to mine
- Power stations already exist to use them
- Burned to provide heat to make electricity
- Effects of global warming
- Habitat loss - population of species decreasing
- Hurricanes - faster convection currents
- Climate change - areas become dry, can't grow crops and food
- Sea levels rising - Destroys homes
- Examples
- Coal
- Gas
- Oil
- Nuclear fuels
- Disadvantage
- Burning fossil fuels releases CO2
- Supplies of coal, oil and gas will run out
- Non-renewable
- Nuclear fuels
- Advantages - No carbon dioxide is released. Makes plutonium to be re-used
- Disadvantage - Risk of terrorism. Produces radioactive waste material
- Advantages
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