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Why is Fossil Fuel regarded as a Non-Renewable Resource?

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    • Fractions says:
      September 3, 2010 at 4:36 am

      Because there is a finite amount of it available to us as humans. There is only so much fossil fuel in the earth, as the main stores were thought to have been created when the dinosaurs became extinct. It would take another mass extinction and lots of time to resupply the earth with fossil fuel. Renewable energy sources, such as the Sun, could remain a source of power until the end of time.

    • JR says:
      September 3, 2010 at 4:36 am

      Fossil Fuels are most certainly Non-Renewable Resources because there is not an unlimited supply of Fossil Fuels, although we are using them in such great quantities that you would think they were. Once we have used up all of the Fossil Fuels they will be completely gone……forever!!!!!
      They think that at the very most we have enough crude oil to last 50 years and perhaps 100 years for all of the coal reserves in the World. Did you know that most countries get most of their electricity from the burning of dirty coal? It’s very true as well as being very tragic for what we are doing to the Earth’s atmosphere.

      Before we run out of Fossil Fuels we will need to have developed the technology for a new source of energy and that will likely be cold fusion. There is a tremendous amount of clean energy to be had there if we can just master this technology. If we can do this before we run out of Fossil Fuels then mankind’s rapid race with new technology will continue. If we cannot find a suitable replacement for Fossil fuels before they run out then out society will come to a stand still. Time will certainly tell.

    • U V says:
      September 3, 2010 at 4:36 am

      Fossil Fuels are made from Biological Tissues (plant matter, dead animals, anything that contains carbon) burried deep under the earth for millions of years. The heat and pressure of the earth breaks down all this ‘dead-matter’ and turns them into fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal..etc..)

      Humans then come along and dig up these fuels and burn them to release energy for us to use… eg… make electricity, power our cars..etc..

      The Fossil Fuels we are using at the moment have been ‘made’ for us by the earth over the previous millions and millions of years…

      The term "non-renewable" is a bad LITTERAL term, because technically, they can be RENEWED. But for general purpose, the definition of Non-Renewable Resource is: that they are being used up at a much faster rate then they can be ‘re-plenished’ or re-made.

      We can see in our lifetime, it will be impossible for us to ‘trap’ all of the Carbon we’ve released from burning Fossil Fuels (as carbon dioxide)… and bury them underground for the earth to ‘cook’ them back to oil or coal..etc…

      That’s why Fossil Fuels are called non-’renewable’ resource.

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