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The document discusses various energy sources including the sun, fossil fuels like coal and oil, and renewable sources like wind and hydroelectric. It compares advantages and disadvantages of renewable versus non-renewable energy sources. Food is also discussed as an energy resource measured in kilocalories.

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Energy Resources

The document discusses various energy sources including the sun, fossil fuels like coal and oil, and renewable sources like wind and hydroelectric. It compares advantages and disadvantages of renewable versus non-renewable energy sources. Food is also discussed as an energy resource measured in kilocalories.

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26/09/23

Energy Resources
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The ULTIMATE energy source

The sun is the ultimate source of all our energy.

For example, we often get energy from beef:

BEEF comes from COWS,


COWS eat GRASS,
GRASS gets energy from the sun
Fuels
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A “fuel” is something that can be burned to release heat and


light energy. The main examples are:

Coal, oil and gas are called “fossil fuels”. In


other words, they were made from fossils.
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Renewable energy sources


Wind

Hydro-electric

Wave

Tidal

Geothermal

Biomass
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Renewable vs. non-renewable fuels

A ________ energy source is one that can be _______


(“renew = make again”), e.g. _____, solar power etc.
Biomass is also an example of a renewable energy source –
______ is a form of biomass.

A ___________ energy source is one that when it has


been used it is gone forever. The main examples are
____, oil and gas (which are called ______ ____, as they
are made from fossils), and nuclear fuel.

Words – non-renewable, coal, wind, renewable, fossil fuels,


wood, renewed
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Non-renewable energy sources

Advantages Disadvantages

Pollution – CO2 leads


Cheap fuel costs to global warming and
SO2 leads to acid rain

Generate a lot of Coal, oil, gas and


energy nuclear

Fuel will run


out
Easy to use
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Renewable energy sources

Advantages Disadvantages

Often depend on the


weather – is it sunny???
Clean

Won’t run out Wind, tidal, solar etc


Look ugly

Energy is “dilute”
– in other words,
Easily accessible it’s very spread
out
Food
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Food is an energy resource. The amount of energy it contains


is measured in “kilocalories” (kJ). For example, consider 100g
of the following:

960 kJ 3180 kJ

670 kJ 146 kJ

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