Comparison and Contrast: Gasoline vs. Ethanol In a world that is becoming more and more dependent on machines and technology, effective fuels are in high demand. Today, one of the many energy disputes is between conventional gasoline and ethanol. Gasoline has been around since before internal combustion engines were in production, so why the sudden interest in ethanol? I will go into detail on the dispute between gasoline and ethanol and the benefits/drawbacks of each. Gasoline, derived from a limited fossil fuel, producing a relatively low octane, and causing many foreign disputes may still be a better choice than water-attracting ethanol that will require change to an entire industry.
Paul Vu Reusser ENGL Comp 1113 8AM 23 June, 2014 Environmental Danger Have you ever wondered how some oil companies get natural gas? There are numerous ways to obtain oil from the ground. Most people require natural gas in their everyday life. It has become more common, cheaper, and cleaner energy source. One of the ways to get it is called fracking.
That is exactly what the movie implies and states will happen to the entire world. When oil becomes very scarce there are only two options: war over the land that contains the scarce resource, most likely the Middle East, or explore new energy sources that are cleaner and more abundant. As appealing as option two sounds cleaner and more abundant energy sources are hard to come by. The movie list several examples: hydrogen, bio-diesel, wind, and solar power. All of these solutions have many issues.
We will be talking about parts per million (ppm). 1% = 1 x 10-2 = 10,000 ppm Pre-anthropogenic (1850 AD) concentration means CO2 levels in the atmosphere before humans started to burn coal, peat, oil, and gas in vast quantities. In 1850, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was 280 ppm. CO2 is increasing in the atmosphere at the rate of approximately 2 ppm/yr due to human interaction. In 2013 AD, CO2 in the atmosphere is 396 ppm.
According to “ The Risks of Hydrofracking”(n.d.), the process uses 8 million gallons of water for one single well. Since there are approximately 500.000 gas wells in America, this means that almost 4 billion gallons of water resources are being used in this process. Moreover, only 30% of the water can be recycled for reuse, which means that 2.8 billion gallons of water is gone (Inglesby & Jenks & Nyquist & Pinner, 2012). In addition, using huge amounts of water may cause a shortage near fracking areas. This issue is highly controversial issue in United States.
Fracking is a procedure that has been around as early as 1947. What started as an experiment to obtain more natural gas ended up being a successful operation and has spread worldwide. Natural gas is our number one domestic energy source that fuels basic necessities that we use every day, including; vehicles, heating, cooking, and general electricity. As of 2012, 2.5 million fracking operations have been performed worldwide. Out of those procedures over one million were produced in the United States.
Oil is a fossil fuel supply which is not being created as fast as it is being drained. It is something that has been the cause of many deaths in two world wars. Hemp could be contributing to our independence in lieu of the government spending money to burn these crops that grow naturally. Some food crop production is being geared toward making a fuel called Ethanol. Ethanol is a healthy alternative to oil.
Do You Know What You’re Drinking? How Fracking Pollutes Our Water, and How We Can Stop it Energy fuels are becoming harder to find in recent years. We now mostly depend on foreign oil from our enemies in the Middle East. Scientists are trying to come up with alternatives to oil and coal, and have come up with a controversial solution. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a method of harnessing energy by drilling beneath the surface and releasing gas from shale rocks.
rationing Rationing is most commonly put with food, when rationing can apply to any like medicine, scarce resources and gasoline. Rationing has been happening forever, every country has had to ration supplies at some point. It could have been because of drought, a natural disaster or even war. Rationing doesn't only happen in developing countries, it can just as easily happen in a developed country. The last major rationing in the United States was the oil crisis during the cold war because of increased tensions with Iran, the U.S. government put a ration a gasoline only allowing people so much at a time.
Through the firm's evolution it found its most profit bearing resources was the production of lead additives. Lead additives were and are used in automotive gasoline fuel and has in the past few decades had policies placed upon its production banning it from developed countries like the United States of America. There are still developing nations who do not have the unleaded gasoline refineries nor the automobile population to support switching to a unleaded fuel. Great Lakes faces many ethical and governmental external factors. The production of Lead additives causes hazardous short-term and long-term health conditions.