fossil fuels
Carbon dioxide in Japan - reduction target
Japan nowadays emits 1.2 billion tones of carbon dioxide annually. Beccause the environmental issues are said to have originagted from the increase in the concentration of green-house gases, goverments put efforts in stopping the increase. This post shares with you the target of reduction in the GHG emission set by the Japannese goverment.
Carbon dioxide in Japan - emission amount
Things that come to one's mind when hearing environments, energy.... that would be green house gas emissions. Today, let's have a look at carbon dioxide emissions.
What determines the characteristics of fossil fuels?
When using the fossil fuels or hydrogen as an energy source (e.g., by combusting them to obtain heat), we extract their chemical energy. And, the chemical energy is stored in chemical bonds. Therefore, in so doing, we arrange the bonding of fuel, to obtain the difference of energy stored in reactants and products (see more […]
How much of energy can be extracted from fossil fuels?
The fossil fuels have been extensively utilized in our society, because they are extremely rich in energy (see Why we rely on fossil fuels?). This post tries to address, then, how much of energy do the fossil fuels possess? The type of energy that fossil fuels have is "chemical energy", which is stored in chemical […]
Why we rely on fossil fuels?
Our society has been relying on fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal. Why have we relied so much on these fossil fuels?