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Fossil Fuels is primary coal, natural gas, oil, hydrocarbons(non renewable energy) that is formed from the dead

plants and animals that is buried by the sand, rock, and mud a thousand feet under the earth crust which fossilized them. There are 3 products that are formed from the fossil fuel there are oil, natural gas, and coal(see figure 1). Oil and natural gas are produced from THE plankton and water plants that were buried under rivers and oceans. Coal is formed from trees ,ferns, other plants that lived about 400 years ago and they were covered by the sea water. After a long period of time the raw materials were buried, the water receded back, then the pressure and bacteria heated and combined to make the products, all the products are all formed in the same way. After we know what fossil fuel is, we have to know what is the usage of fossil fuels . The usage of fossil fuels is to make human lives easier. But we know that every product have advantages and disadvantages, so we have to analyze what is the advantages and disadvantages for human lives .From my research the advantages are: fossil fuels can produced LPG for cooking, it is also the main resources for cars and motorcycles, many products that are produced form the coal for our home and manufacturing industries. If were looking to the details benefit of using fossil fuel we can know that the reservoirs of fossil fuels are easy to locate, fossil fuel is cheaper than the other resources, its also can be easily distributed by pipes to many people, the fuels are suitable for all vehicles, and its easy to extract and process the fossil fuel. Unluckily there are many disadvantages too that we can get because of overconsumption of using fossil fuels in some country e.g. US (figure 2and 3) , the disadvantages are the reservoir ground will decline, it contribute in green house effect because it releases green house gases such as methane , carbon dioxide, and etc that damage the ozone layer and pollute the air, it will cause Acid rain from carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, it will affect the mine workers health and environmental balance because of the pollution from the extraction process of fossil fuel. Unluckily the fossil fuel will finish in the next few years, so it will affect on the fuels prices in the future and fossil fuels also contribute in global warming( figures 4 and 5).

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Figure 2. The ice of north pole melted because of global warming that is because of fossil fuels.

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Figure3 diagram of fossil fuels contributions in global warming

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Because of that many people likely to think about stop using fossil fuel. We know that it is a good idea because we can save the earth by reducing the contributors of global warming so that global warming might be happen but it is longer than usual. But if we stop using fossil fuel, how can we get electricity, petrol, and another resources that we usually need to survive that and we get it from fossil fuels? We should find another solutions it is by using alternative energy. What is alternative energy? Alternative energy is renewable energy rather than fossil fuels(non fossil fuels) that we get from resources that might not finish in the future. One of the example of alternative energy is wind energy. What is wind energy? Wind energy is the energy that is produced from the wind. The kinetic energy from the wind can produced electrical energy. We use wind turbine to produce electricity. So the wind will spin the blades that connected to the turning shaft. The shaft go to the gear transmission box where the turning speed increased. Then it will link to the high speed shaft that turns a generator so it will produce the electricity. The brake is used to decrease the turning movement of the blades so it wont be broken. Figure 4. The wind turbine to produce the electricity. http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter16.html

The wind turbine can generate electricity for a house , school, city(power generation) it depend on the size of the wind turbines. The small turbine can generate electricity for a school figure 5, its one of the benefits that we get from the wind energy . The wind energy is free , clean, without using fuel, no air emission ,and it wont be the one of the contributors of the water pollutants. But there is the bad sides of wind turbines even though the wind is free but it will cost much to build the wind turbine , it produced noises ,it killed the birds and bats that are flying near the blades, the places that usually for

farming used for the wind turbine , also the weather is not windy all the time so it can generate electricity when there is no wind at that time.

Figure 5. Small wind turbine that generates electricity for a school in Iowa, USA http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter16.html

As i said before, that it will cost much to build the wind turbine and it will kill birds. It is true and the news above is the evidence of my statement.

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