Is natural gas a type of fossil fuel? What are the types of fossil fuels?
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Yes natural gas is a type of fossil fuel.  Other examples of fossil fuel are oil and coal
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Renewable resources include such energies as wind, solar (sun) power, geothermal (heat from the ground) and hydro (water).  They are beneficial for the Earth because they do not produce harmful emissions and can, theoretically, last forever.  They are often considered a hindrance (or just annoying) to society because they are rarely cheap to harness (or at least not cheaper than fossil fuels) and a suitable infrastructure is not properly in place for such energies.\n\nNon-renewable resources, on the other hand, include such energies as fossil fuels (this is turned from crude oil into gasoline), natural gases (burnt in many processes for energy), wood (this is considered non-renewable if the rate at which it is used is greater than the rate at which it is created), coal (burnt in many processes for energy) and pretty much any Hydrocarbon.  Non-renewable resources are considered useful and valuable because they are generally cheap to use and have been used throughout history.  For this reason, the infrastructure around non-renewable resources is substantially greater than that of its renewable counterpart.  These energies cause a greater problem than they solve because went used, they produce harmful emissions such as carbon dioxide.  These chemicals are detrimental to one’s health and are a contributing factor in the Greenhouse Effect (the leading cause of global warming in the world).\n\nObviously, renewable resources pose a brighter prospect for the future.\n\nI hope this was an informative answer!
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we have two types - field corn (to feed our animals/chicken and corn by products) and sweet corn (to eat! to freeze/can)--just to name a couple of things.  \n\nand like the other poster said now it will be the ethanol 'thing' which is ALREADY making our gas more expensive.... we will never learn....
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renewable: Hydro Electricity, \nNon: Gas, Oil, Natural Gas, \nsorry thats all I could think of.
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No, not likely. \n\nCoal is formed from (coalified) plant material. Petroleum and natural gas are formed from organic remains of plants, primarily microscopic phytoplankton, and small marine animals called zooplankton. \n\nIn the rare instance that a dinosaur's dead body might have been carried by water into an oxygen poor (anaerobic) environment and quickly buried by catastrophic deposition of shales, there might have been some protein or lipids from that carcass that eventually converted to oil, but it is far more likely that the body of a large organism like a dinosaur would become food for decomposing bacteria and other scavengers long before it had the opportunity to be converted to oil by the process of heat and pressure known as catagenesis.\n\nThere is no truth to the answer that the "traditional theory is that petroleum formed during the same period as dinosaurs" as most of the world's petroleum reservoirs are known to be younger than that, and many are known to be older. One deposit of oil has been found that is only about 4,000 years old. \n\nDr. Thomas Gold's hypothesis of abiotic oil has never been substantiated by any evidence of oil that is NOT from biological sources.  Very few geologists agree with Gold, and none have been able to prove he was correct. There is considerable evidence in the form of molecular structure, isotopic fractionation, and more that proves that little if any oil is from the abiotic mechanism Gold hypothesized. The big problem with Gold's hypothesis is that oil and gas ARE NOT found in igneous rocks, as one answer here suggests.\n\nI'm a petroleum geologist.
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From so many chemical reactions you couldn't list them all here but if you mean in the context of the global warming issue we need only look at systems that release carbon that would otherwise be locked away into the environment.  The big two sources are the much talked about burning of fossil fuels.  The carbon of coal and oil are burned to form mostly CO2.  Another big source that I don't hear much about is the carbon in limestone (calcium carbonate).  We heat this up to realize a lot of CO2 to make concrete.  A lot of CO2 is released in this process.  From the limestone and from the fossil fuel used to cook it.
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Natural gas consists primarily of methane and other hydrocarbon gases. Hydrocarbons are organic compounds composed only of the elements carbon and hydrogen. The hydrocarbons in natural gas are called saturated hydrocarbons because they contain hydrogen and carbon bound together by single bonds. Methane is the simplest saturated hydrocarbon.
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coal produces CO2 and global warming/ fumes that create air polution(mercury and such) it is also a fossil fuel, meaning that it cannot be renewed\n\nnuclear produces nuclear waste that can be made into weapons although we now have technology that can use 99% of the fuel and the remaining waste will be of such low grade not even a dirty bomb can be made. This is promising for nuclear power since it lasts the longest and is highly productive\n\nsolar is that the panels take up lots of space and that space would be unusuable for anything else(solar fields)\n\ngeothermal is that it can be only placed in certain areas and fumes from the inside of the earth such as Hydrogen Sulfide have to be taken care of otherwise air polution will result.\n\nwind is that there is no constant wind, you have to sit and wait for the wind to come, these also take up lots of space but technology has made it even more efficient\n\nhydroelectric energy is that dams damage the enviroment, fish cannot migrate upstream as a result, and tidal versions are still in development.\n\ni think you might have wanted to say fuel cell so ill answer anyway- fuel cells (hydrogen) currently take more energy to create the hydrogen than the energy the hydrogen can actually release, GM is currently testing wind as a potential energy generator for the hydrogen to be split from water to make hydrogen fuel, however hydrogen technology has become more efficient, currently some machines can generate 70-80% efficiency\n\nnatrual gas is abundant, but there are risks such as explosions involved, it also releases greenhouse gasses such as CO2 when burned although it is cleaner than gasoline and desiel when properly used. like coal natrual gas is also unrenewable since it too is a fossil fuel
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I did a research project once on natural gas.  I found eternal flames to be very interesting.  An eternal flame is a flame that constantly burns; it is fed by a supply of natural gas (usually the supply is trapped between layers of shale).  I visited an example of an eternal flame in Chestnut Ridge Regional Park in New York State.  It is located underneath a waterfall...you should look up pictures of it.  It's really neat and would add to your report!  A good website is: www.pbase.com/calanan/eternal for pictures.
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The basic answer is yes.\n\nThere are several forms of biomass energy. In the realm of liquid fuels (for transportation, for example) you have biodiesel (made from soy or another plant, basically vegetable oil) and ethanol (currently mostly made from corn but in the future also to be made from grasses, crop "waste", etc. These fuels are becoming cheaper and are now getting competitive. For example a 20% blend of biodiesel is probably no more than 5% over regular diesel, and ethanol is competitive with regular octane fuels (at least in the cost of manufacture). \n\nSolid biomass is a good option for mixing in with coal-fired power plants to cut costs and CO2 emissions.
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Nuclear, Coal, Hydro, Aero, Gas
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liquid propane and natural gas
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Most fuel (other than hydrogen, nuclear etc) is hydrocarbon.\n\nPlastics, solvents, most paint, most (all?) man made clothes, the insution on the wire...\n\nA bit of "building block" for modern material as well as fuels, solvents and some medicines too!!!!
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(m)\n\nCOAL\nCoal is a fossil fuel--a sedimentary organic rock that contains more than 50 percent carbonaceous material by weight and is composed largely of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur, with small amounts of other materials ranging from aluminum to zirconium. Its beginning was in the form of ancient plants that grew in swamps millions of years ago. Geological processes working over vast spans of time compressed and altered the plant remains, increasing the percentage of carbon present and thereby producing various ranks of coal.\n\nCoal Ranking\nThe four recognized ranks of coal in the U.S. classification scheme are: anthracite, bituminous coal, sub-bituminous coal, and lignite. In the United States coal rank is classified according to its heating value, its fixed carbon and volatile matter content and, to some extent, its caking characteristics during combustion.\n\nAnthracite - Used primarily for residential and commercial space heating, anthracite is the highest rank of coal. Its hard, brittle, lustrous black texture contains a high percentage of fixed carbon and low percentage of volatile matter. It is often called "hard coal." Freshly-mined anthracite usually contains less than 15 percent moisture content. Its typical heat content is 15 million Btu per short ton or less.\n\nBituminous - Dense coal of black or dark brown color and usually has well-defined bands of contrasting bright and dull material. It is used primarily to generate steam electric power. Substantial quantities are used for power and heat applications in manufacturing as well as to make coke. In active U.S. mining regions, bituminous coal is the most abundant coal. It has a a moisture content of less than 20 percent and a heat content range between 21 to 30 million Btu per ton in a moist, mineral-matter-free basis. Of the four ranks, bituminous coal accounts for over half (51 percent) of the demonstrated reserve base. Bituminous coal is concentrated primarily east of the Mississippi River, with the greatest amounts in Illinois, Kentucky, and West Virginia.\n\nSub-bituminous - This coal can be dull, dark brown to black in color and soft and crumbly as one quality, to bright, jet black, hard and strong. Used primarily as fuel for steam-electric power generation, subbituminous coal has properties ranging from the properties of lignite or bituminous coal. The heat content of sub-bituminous coal consumed in the U.S. ranges from 17 to 18 million Btu per ton on a moist, mineral-matter-free basis. All sub-bituminous coal (38 percent of the demonstrated reserve base) is west of the Mississippi, with most of it in Montana and Wyoming.\n\nLignite - This coal's brownish-black color has a high moisture content and is the lowest rank coal. It is often called "brown coal" and is used almost entirely as fuel for steam-electric power generation. It accounts for slightly less than 10 percent of the demonstrated reserve base and is found mostly in Montana, Texas, and North Dakota.
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gasoline\nkerosene\njet fuel\nasphalt\nwaxes & paraffin\nmotor/ lubricating oil\nplastics\nresins\npaint thinner & paints\nMTBE - a gasoline oxygenate\nmakeup \nvaseline\nfood preservatives and additives\ncarbon black for tires\ncrude oil contains natural gas liquids - propane, butane...\ndiamondoids\npesticides\nfertilizer\n\noil is one of the most versatile natural resources on the planet.
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Hey Dude! Do you know how many different types of gases there are!!!! Do you! I can't even list all the types of gases here! Jeez!
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Natural gas is too hard to Compress, so, it is collected straight from the ground and pumped to homes. When a Gas field is found they just use a pipe like they do oil to tap into the Gas pocket. Butane is a gas that can be compressed it liquefies under pressure, that why a Lighter looks like it has Liquid in it, you CAN NOT do this with natural gas. This a easy way to explain it.