What are 3 types of invaluable natural resources? Why are they important????
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Water, you can not sustain life without it. That includes every form of life, man, animal, forests, bacteria, etc. Everything!\n\nAir, which contains oxygen on which we as human beings depend on for our dear life.\n\nSunlight, which is the beginning of our very existence. Imagine what life would be if there was no sun. \n\nThere are many other natural resources which surround us on this wonderful planet called the Earth. But I would say that these three definitely top the list.\n\nBy the way, you ask very intelligent questions. Good for you to be so concerned about your enviornment.
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I personally would use a genetic algorithm software program to assess the best places to drill for oil, specific mineral deposits, etc. (Choose one thing to look for).  Accumulate the massive data that is available (satellite imagery, topological information, health statistics, etc.) and input this information along with known locations of the item you are researching.  The genetic algorithm program will output the key criteria that are correlated with your search.  Use that criteria to search for undiscovered resource sites.\nI know this technique works -- I use it for my job.  Good luck!
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Green energy that includes natural enegetic processes.  Geothermal power, wind power, small-scale hydropower, solar power, biomass power, tidal power and wave power fall under such a category. Some versions may also include power derived from the incineration of waste.\n\nRemember that no power source is impact-free. For instance, concerns are raised over bird kills and in some cases noise pollution by windmills and over heavy metal use and associated mining damage by raw materials used for constructing solar cells.\n\nHere in Greece we have used windmills  ancients before electricity but now we use it to produse electricity for our islands. We use also solar cells and  small-scale hydropower to produse electicity.
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In the context of your question,\n\nA resource is a source of material or energy that may be consumed, changed, or dispersed to the point it is no longer easily usable. Examples would be copper ore, oxygen in the atmosphere, helium gas taken from oil wells, water, sand, or even soil. Anything we do consumes or utilizes some sort of resource. Breathing uses oxygen from the air. Copper is used for wiring and piping. Helium is used for scientific research and birthday balloons. Sand is used to make concrete. Water is used for drinking, irrigation, and generating hydroelectric power. Soil is used for growing crops.  None of these are exhaustive lists, just examples. \n\nOil: Oil is a mixture of organic compounds extracted from the earth by drilling. It is created from organic materials deposited in sedimentary rock that are altered by heat, pressure, and biotic processes to create it. \nOil is used to make gasoline, diesel, airplane fuel, plastic, shampoo, rubber, antihistamines, and many other products. \n\nNatural gas: It is an organic gas that is also extracted from the earth by drilling. It is generated by a similar process to that for oil generation. It is used to heat homes, make fertilizer, and some plastics. \n\nWater: Water is found in many forms, but mostly as either fresh or saltwater. Fresh water is used for drinking, irrigation, etc. Saltwater is not as useful directly to man, but is an essential part of our environment as the oceans both support food supplies and have a large effect on the climate. \n\nWood: Wood comes from living organisms- trees. Wood can be used for building many things, including houses. It is used for fuel and is the primary source of fuel in some parts of the world.
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Tough question, however Solar and Wind are viable sources of energy where available.  BioMass and utilization of human waste are also viable sources of future energy.  There's some speculation about technology to harness the energy contained in Ocean Water (currents) though I am not an engineer and don't understand it at all.  Finally, eliminating wastefulness and extending the usefulness of exsiting fuel types will assure at least in the short term enough for all (this is particularly aimed at the USA as the largest consumer of existing fuels per capata in the World, the question is why)
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Ores have been deposited over the length of geological history. Most sources of ore must be categorized as non-renewable because the exploitation is way faster than the regeneration rate.\n\nNew ore deposits are formed all the time, e.g. wherever rust carried off by water collects. It takes quite a long time to make these worth exploiting, though.\n\nIn case of riverine deposits (e.g. of gold) it is possible to maintain an equilibrium: the ancients of Kolchis used ram vleeces to collect gold dust in the rivers. As long as the mother lode continued to provide detritus to the river, the gold was collected as a renewable resource.\n\nWhich brings me to theoretical exploitation of volcanic deposits - either from lava deposits, or at the mid-Atlantic ridge. There still is an equilibrium of material subducted in subduction zones like before the Californian coast and material brought up in the Atlantic. One might talk about a renewable resource in this case.
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Natural resources\n\nThere is a substantial amount of petroleum and natural gas under the seabed: see North Sea oil.
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1. extraction\n2. transportation\n3. refining\n4. distribution.\n\nhttp://www.nd.edu/~msen/Teaching/DirStudies/Petroleum.pdf\n\nhttp://www.bydesign.com/fossilfuels/links/html/oil/oil_get.html
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Because METAL is in some way 4 different evolving atoms and\n  materials according to the measurement of dense fields do in\n  scientific quantity.  By this we can mean practical, or reachable\n   thus according in some way to eliminate areas like highest\n   or wildest regions not likely to take production.  So on, under\n    the ocean, so I eliminate all except production and storing in\n    prepared or piled supply site.  Two come into active,  uranium\n    is the general metallic under cooling storages in slabs to be\n    readily available up to 40 million tons per harvest, this is like\n    a magical fuel bar supply for gigantic space stations.  The 2nd\n    choice is more likely GOLD, due to it being mapped, sited,\n    and gaining value in technology for unforeseen many years.\n    Theory only Gold smelt slab 90% style could be done in a\n     magic superior at 1 billion pounds per year for periods of 30 \n     years from existing process of purification and not going\n     deeper then 2 miles below the surface.  Nice question.
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There are 4 sources of gold.  mine production,  hords, reclamation from recycling and government stocks.\n\nmine production is pretty much constant until new mines come on stream.  There is a very long lead time to bring a mine up.  Hords tend to not increase supply at all because as the price increases, people tend to add to their hords.  Recycling is a pretty much constant supply.  That leaves government stocks.  Governments have been know to release their stocks as prices increase so that is the only short term possible addition to inceases to supply.  As for decreases, the same pretty much hold true except for hords.  After a large run up in prices, at a sharp drop in prices hord holdings tend to be released to the market further driving prices down.
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They do indeed contain valuable minerals, some much more valuable than gold.  To set up any kind of large-scale mining operation would cost trillions of dollars using modern technologies, though.  So I don't think it would be worth the cost.  In 100 years, we may very well have off-world mining operations, depending on what technologies develop.
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Think of the trends.  There are patterns that are flukes and patterns that have solid substance behind them.  We know that energy is going to change and going to get more expensive, so what parts of that scene interests you?  We know that food is going to stay important, even more important as weather changes and we overfish the seas and start using more and more of our agricultural production for energy.  Some materials are not getting any easier to find, so who has new finds or big reserves of iron, copper, or special steels needed things like chromium and vandium and nickel?  The eco-friendly movement is big and getting bigger, so who are the most green companies in various industrial segments?  Nano technology is weird, wild, and amazingly wonderful, something to consider as well.  Good luck.
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First off forests don't produce oxygen, that is one of those science factoids that everybody knows and thatis completely without basis. See the link below.\n\nForestry is important because it produce wood and wood pulp for parer. It also provides an ecnomic incentive for maintaining area sof managed wilderness and plantation forest that provide essential environmental services such as wildlife habitat and water regulation.
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http://www.petrostrategies.org/Learning%20Center/LearningRunningOut.html\n\ngot that website from my environmental teacher, has graphs,percentages and text that pretty much covers the world reserves and the u.s. reserves as well as undiscovered estimates.
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I like to look at geologic surveys because in the building of\n    farms, sunhouses, pools, ponds, riding stables, many\n    gardens there is a demand that the area is comfortable.You \n    may find that keywords interest in specific ideals, once you\n    are on a regional site, or regional sites with lots of information\n    cover important points.  http://www.chamberofcommerce.com
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Do you mean finite natural resources? If so, those are resourses found on earth, (oil)that are of limited supply. In other words we only have so much, and when it it gone, it is gone forever.
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photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/Index.asp\nwww.iucn.org\nwww.hoovers.com/nrcs/--ID__150474--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml\n\n\nABOVE ALL U R A NATURAL RESOURCE....CONSERVE URSELF.....take care bye bye...