Chapter 15: Nonrenewable Energy

Cheaper and safer but research and development are needed.

Products of oil distillation, raw materials for industrial organic chemicals.

Identified deposits that can be extracted profitably with current technology.

Total money taken in minus all expenses.

It takes high-quality energy to get high-quality points. Pumping oil from the ground, refining it, transporting it.

Some high-quality energy is wasted at every step

Total amount of useful energy available from a resource minus the energy needed to make the energy available to consumers

Total money taken in minus all expenses

ratio of energy produced to energy used to produce it

the time after which production from a good declines

Products of oil distillation, raw materials for industrial organic chemicals

Identified deposits that can be extracted profitably with current technology

Low net energy yield and makes the U.S. dependent upon unstable countries like Russia and Iran

solid fossil fuel

China, the United States, and Canada

Fuse lighter elements into heavier elements, with no risk of meltdown or significant radioactivity release

Heating crude oil to separate it into various fuels and other components with different boiling points in a complex process

the 2% of the products of refining; used for raw materials to make industrial organic chemicals, cleaning fluids, pesticides, plastics, synthetic fibers, paints, medicines, cosmetics, ice cream, and many other products

High-pressure pumps shoot a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into the well; the pressure builds up and creates cracks so that the oil/natural gas can flow up to the surface

When propane and butane gases are liquefied under high pressure