Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Renewable Energy (part two)

Energy, our energy comes mainly from fossil fuels like natural gas, coal, oil. All these fuels are the results of millions and millions of years of creation. All these animals and plants puerished, decayed and compressed under their own weight. Huge amount of energies were stored and captured in the process.

The process is the following:once humans dig up fossil fuels, properly called hydrocarbons, we, the humans burn these hydrocarbons. We call this process oxydizing. The energy resulting from this process is transformed to power cars, or any other machines.

In the main process, Carbon atoms latch on to two Oxygen atoms(O).

(to be continued)

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