Essays on Coal

Technology has indeed evolved over the years and continues to influence every facet of our lives. The advent of new technology has been a powerful force in molding the way humans interact as well as how society operates in general. Most people will think of technology as a combination of complex high tech machines such as computers but that is only one part of it. Furthermore, changes to way of life due to technological changes can be mild or drastic depending on how society receives it. For instance, the use of personal and business email has significantly reduced the ...

Part 1: Broken Rainbow

The Broken Rainbow is a movie that depicts the displacement of the Navajo people in Arizona by the government of the United States (Maria and Victoria 1). This displacement followed the occupation by the Navajo of a land that had the potential of producing coal, oil and generating electricity.

The power plants

The power plants were built to ease the concerns of the people of California that had rejected the idea of sharing the water of river Colorado. Arizona politicians adopted the Central Arizona Project that led to the construction of power plants in Page and Laughlin. A lot of water was ...

Writings of Max Weber are representing fundamental importance to Sociology as scientific discipline. While different concepts were still not described, he has tried to clear up situations considering power, people attitudes, economy, and religion and even give them definitions which we are interpreting till nowadays. His works are without doubt having particular semantic load. This makes them harder to read but more challenging to explain. While analyzing different concepts described by Weber we should also take into consideration time when he was writing and influence of European, precisely, German politics and economics which somehow could have been different from ...

The European Union is one of the most successful regional integration bodies in the world. The European Union, formed in 1993, draws its roles from past organizations formed after the Second World War to ensure peace existed in Europe. Since itss formation, the EU has experienced increased membership, as there are now twenty six countries involved in the organization. The establishment of the EU has allowed the creation of a free market around Europe; therefore allowing economic development among member states. Other than economic integration, the EU has also promoted peace among its member states. By discussing the events ...

Up from Slavery is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington, which came out by the dawn of the twentieth century. It is different in a way that a Black author has used humor to highlight slavery than use misery and suffering to talk about it. He wants his readers to believe that slavery was as much useful for the black population as it was to white population. Washington adopts a positive approach that involves humor, in discussing the African American struggle. His indifference to racial riots, black killings, and protests make him a ‘destructive’ social activist, whereas, his positive ...

Based on the quote above by James Grossman, how did emancipation change the life of slavery owners? How did emancipation change the life of enslaved people? The freedom made the slave owner’s daily lives and operations more difficult because they were used to getting free labour with no worries. In most cases, the Blacks were at their disposal. Moreover, they had to be creative with ratifying laws that would ensure that they had enough prisoners to work on their farms, as they could not control the blacks any longer (Hines 7). On the other hand, the slaves were ...

Introduction

The Modern Green Movement is distinguished by its actions for combating the cataclysmic consequence of climate changes, by conducting global environmental events, conservation of natural resources, preservation of the environment, and overcoming the green gas issues. The consciousness of the people has become more intense now, yet, most of the environmental issues remain unresolved. And the chemically contaminated water and foods, genetically altered seeds, and other problems are putting the daily lives in dangerous conditions. To make matters worse, most of the natural resources dwindle, while the climate change plays havoc. The Modern Green Movement is convincing people, to ...

As the world struggles with climate change and the need for clean, reliable energy, it is possible that the world could tap into the huge deposits of economically recoverable coal and methane gas that lie deep underground. As many as three trillion tons of coal can be mined using the traditional technologies, and even more, coal deposits that could not be mined in the past can now be accessed by setting them on fire and then trapping the methane gas that is released as a result. The process of burning coal and capturing gases that are released is known ...

Energy. The existence of humanity highly depends on this vital resource. For the longest time, people have witnessed how its production shaped the society. As people continue to use energy at a faster rate, energy scarcity is said to be possible in the future. To secure the supply of energy, some experts believe that it is necessary to utilize unconventional sources of energy, such as the use of coal deposits which are unreachable by the regular mining methods. In the article written by Fred Pearce, he talks about the different issues surrounding this process. According to Pearce, “modern miners ...

Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons has increased over the years with the increase in industrialization. PAHs refer to chemicals that form through incomplete combustion of coal, oil and gas (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, ATSDR 1). They also occur when organic substances such as garbage that fail to burn completely. Incomplete combustion results in the release of 100 different chemicals that mix to form PAHs. These hydrocarbons are found in crude oil, roofing tar, coal and creosote (Mah et al. 23). The chart below illustrates how a person can be exposed to PAHs in a 24-hour weekday. ...

Part One

“One problem with international business is that it often ignores human rights and basic labor standards” (Cavusgil, Knight, & Riesenberger, 2012, p. 53). Low-pay plants overseas generate inferior operational circumstances. The actions of international businesses not just ensue in job deficits here at home, nonetheless too in low salaries and abused employees throughout the world. Just consider of the factories in Asia that create imported fashion. Think of the auto workers in Mexico who reside in horrifying circumstances and make just a small number of dollars a day. Also, take into consideration the hardship triggered international through the current worldwide ...

1. How can the disease described above create a mismatch between ventilation and perfusion? Use your understanding of alveolar dead space and physiologic shunt to explain your answer. In coal-miner’s pneumoconiosis, respirable coal dust that are inhaled for long periods of time trigger hyperactive immune responses that lead to destruction of the lung. At the beginning, coal dust particles are expelled out of the lung through the function of pulmonary macrophages beneath the epithelial layer of airways and near capillaries (Kopf, Schneider & Nobs, 2015). These macrophages phagocytize the dust particles and transport them to the lymphatic tree or ...

One of the most common environmental pollution observed in many parts of the world is the formation of haze. This phenomenon is predominantly visible in those geographies where the air pollution is on the higher side, which may be multiple times more than what has been believed to be safe. Essentially, haze which appears as a blanket of smoke over a wide area occurs when the tiny invisible pollutants suspended in the air absorbs and scatters sunlight thereby reducing the clarity of our vision to a great extent . Air pollution, the primary factor behind haze can be either natural ...

Synopsis

This paper discusses sustainable development and the leadership characteristics that initiate organizational change towards sustainability. In the increasingly competitive environment, leaders find themselves under constant challenges, which require them to embrace change and to steer their organization towards sustainability. Sustainable development, however, does not only pertain to economic sustainability, but it also pertains to environmental and social sustainability. Also known as the triple-bottom-line, this paper discusses the importance of achieving sustainable development through economic, environmental and social sustainability and the role of the leader in achieving this goal. Using real-life business scenarios, this paper provides contemporary examples of how ...

Introduction

One of the most important things, if not the most important one, that society needs today is energy. Energy comes in many form and moist literatures focusing on this topic would agree that among all the possible sources of energy, oil comes as the most heavily demanded, and hence the most important. In fact, one may argue that the geopolitical movements and decisions that have been made in the past half a century have been motivated by access to this important energy-related commodity. There are many possible sources of energy but even though oil just comes as one of ...

Solar power is a renewable source of energy, conversed of sunlight into electricity, directly using photovoltaics or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaics were used to power small and medium applications, from watch and calculator to off-grid homes. This is an inexpensive source of electrical energy, and according to a new Fraunhofer report, solar power in sunny regions of the world is going to be cheaper from gas or coal. For several years worldwide growth of solar photovoltaics (further PV) raised in many countries and regions all over the world, including Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Thailand. The increasing ...

Introduction

“There’s much stronger evidence connecting human activity to changes in temperature, melting glaciers and ocean warming,” are the words of Gerald Meehl who holds the position of a senior scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research. Meehl in addition to being a scientist is also a major contributor to the report that was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and according to the report; human activity is primary cause for warming of the earth’s climate. The 2007, the report linked human activity to the change in global temperatures with 90 percent certainty, a ...

Mining in Australia involves the extraction, as well as the processing of a wide range of mineral resources spread across the country. The mining activities fall into various classification depending on the nature of the activity. These categories include coal mining, mining of oil and gas, mining of metal ores such as bauxite, and mining of construction materials (Connolly and Orsmond 26). Australia has an uneven distribution of mining resources, with some states better endowed than others. For instance, Western Australia has large deposits of iron ore and natural gas, whereas New South Wales and Queensland areas have plenty ...

A hydrogen car is a car that uses hydrogen as the source of driving power fuel. In such a car, the chemical energy stored in hydrogen is converted to mechanical energy which propels the car. This is done by burning the hydrogen in the internal combustion engine. It can also be done in a fuel cell where hydrogen is reacted with the oxygen to run the electric motor. Hydrogen fuel is not considered as an energy source but rather, an energy carrier since it doesn’t occur naturally. It must be made from other sources which include methane and other fossil ...

I. Introduction Human activities are causing the world to warm and the global average temperature is predicted to increase by 1.8-4.0C (3.2-7.2F) by the end of the century. (Griffin, 2009) These numbers might not seem that large but when you factor in the rate at which they are increasing, it almost becomes obvious that human contributed greenhouse gases are a huge contributing factor. Since the climate will continue to change for natural and humans activity reasons, it critical to understand the adaptations humans need to do as soon as possible. For certain, if oil production and oil consumption ...

The Great smog of 1952 was a rigorous air pollution which affected the city of London in England during December 1952. According to Kottke Jason, The smog was caused by cold weather that combined with windless conditions and an anticyclone which collected airborne pollutants from coal use that led to the formation of the smog with a thick layer. It endured from 5th Friday to 9th Tuesday in the year of 1952 and later dispersed immediately after the change of weather. This paper explores the cause of the smog, its effects, and the actions taken by the government as well as ...

Advanced countries have been on the fore front in advocating for Kyoto Protocol of 1997. In the USA, the Chicago Climate Exchange has been on the frontline as an operator of the emission trading scheme. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is legal binding actually a first voluntary GHG reduction and also a trading system that aims to emit and offset projects in the Brazil and the North America. Such a scheme helps achieve reduction goals through a cost effective means and via trading emission allowances between the available participants. The Chicago Climate Exchange has proclaimed and described itself as the rules based ...

What is the chemical formula for ozone gas?

Ozone is present in the troposphere, a part of the atmosphere. Ozone consist of 3 molecules of Oxygen. The chemical formula for ozone is O3. Ozone is also called as tri-oxygen since it consists of 3 molecules of oxygen bound to each other by covalent bonds. The structure and formula of ozone were identified in the year 1865. However, it is less stable than Oxygen and blue in color.

How does ozone form in the stratosphere?

Ozone is found in both, the stratosphere and the troposphere. The formation of ozone in both these layers is distinct. Stratospheric ozone is formed in two simple steps. Initial step involves ...

Part A

1a) - An aspect of American life that improved between the period 1870 and 1910 is health. This fact can be gleaned from Document 1, which indicated that infant mortality rate in the year 1870 was 170 per 1000 children below the age of 1. This figure went down to 161 in 1880 and continued to go down for the next 30 years and by 1910 the figure was 117. The implication of this was that the Industrial Revolution brought something that made the people healthier, perhaps better finances to afford more food and medicine, or new drugs that ...

One of the hallmarks of globalization is that increased contact between the people and governments of different nations will eventually lead to increased cooperation the makes use of the competitive advantages of nation to produce a benefit for both. While there is considerable debate on whether this sort of cooperation is indeed effective but at least in terms of the energy industry, expanded cross-national cooperation has had a considerable impact on how business is done. Moreover, depending on your point of view, the impacts can be seen as positive or negative. For example, in 2014, China and the U.S. came to ...

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humans. Individual’s lifestyles have developed to such an extent in developed countries that people continue to drain the earth of fossil fuels used to sustain humans. The result is that global warming is happening as a result of natural but predominantly human activities that release carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Measuring the best forms of energy to counteract this depends on a number of technological, economic and societal variables. It also requires the efforts of government to use command and control along with economic incentives to the highest potential for each ...

Natural Gas in China: An Overview

This research paper delves into the prospects for the Peoples Republic of China’s gas market, its consequences for her needs, and the possible world’s effects of China’s natural gas policies.

All the way through 2020, China aims to carry out intense shifts in her energy outline. Accordingly, China’s natural gas represents is beneficial as it aims to advance towards a cleaner energy and to eliminate coal as a fuel. However, as the Chinese government continues to support the usage of ...

Abstract

The current and ongoing debate around renewable and alternative energy sources has led to the scientific examination of such energy sources. The result has been the continuous development of two energy sources, the wind and solar energy. The two have been subject to research into the ways through which they can be utilised to obtain the best results from them. Hence, the question of viability has arisen. Australia is one country where the impact of climate change is been felt. Thus, wind and solar energy could offer the best option for reduction of these effects. As a result, ...

Whether Renewable Energies Can Make a Major Contribution to the Global Energy Budget and Further Policies Needed To Achieve This.

The question of whether investment in renewable energy production will help reduce the global expenditure on energy production should be viewed on economic, social, and environmental perspective. Economically, expenditure on renewable energy production is currently higher than energy production from most non-renewable sources (Wengenmayr and Bührke, 2011). This explains why subsidies are often being offered to promote production from renewable sources. A study by the institute of physics at the University of Oldenburg found that the ...

Abstract

Work safety in organizations has been the most debated issues recently. Strict laws ensure that employers devise plans to minimize errors and reduce chances of any fatalities or injuries. There is another aspect of the workers safety issue; it is the alarming increase in the number of voluntary or involuntary cases of Unsafe Acts being committed by the employees. Firms have employed many Error management tools like Tripod- Delta and Reviews to handle the issue. Airlines and Railways where Unsafe acts can lead to massive losses both human and monetary; these methods try to investigate the root cause of ...

The electricity sector has played an important role in both the economic and political life of Canada. The organization of the sector is in line with the Canadian provincial as well as territorial lines (Bernstein 13). Canada is known to be the second largest in terms of hydroelectricity production all over the world. It is also ranked at number six in the generation of electricity through the use of nuclear power (Bugailiskis, & Andrés 17). When it comes to consumption, studies reveal that the offices, factories and homes in Canada are among the large consumers of hydro, which is a ...

The 1920s was one of the golden ages in American history as far as technology is concerned. For instance, the robot was invented in 1921, the late legend, John Larson invented the lie detector, Sir Fredrick Grant Banting invented insulin in 1922, the now very popular 3-D movie (the spectacles which have one green lens and one red) was first released and the traffic signal was invented by Garret A. Morgan. In addition, the television was invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, frozen food was introduced by Clarence Birdseye in 1923, Rice and Kellog invented the loudspeaker in 1924 and ...

In the United States, the forms of energy used have improved over time. It has been influenced by advances in technology, discoveries of energy resources, prices of energy, social demands and other aspects. The only thing that is constant is the increased of the amount of energy that is being used over time.

In the 1700's Americans used burned wood as a fuel. Wood was used for heating space and power generation since it was uncomplicated to get, portable and can be used as needed. In the early 1800's coal was used and it supplied more heat than wood. ...

Chapter one

In his book Working Class-New York, Joshua Benjamin Freeman draws the labor movements and way of life after the Second World War. The Book revolves around a sweeping history of the New York City. After the World War, the model city carved out an equitable and idealistic path to the future. Through the combined efforts of the working class, the city becomes the model city of the liberal America. Although the Second World War conferred many benefits to the city, the city had an equal measure of troubles too. Benjamin Freeman illustrates how the events of World War impacted on ...

THE FIRST STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE IS UK

Abstract

The first steam engine is credited to Hero of Alexandria in ancient Egypt. However, during the pre-industrial and industrialization times, the steam engines served a critical role in the changing methods of production. One of the major advancement of the steam engine was made by Thomas Newcomn in 1712, and later by James Watt. Watt’s changes lead to better steam engine that opened ways for the manufacturing of the first steam locomotive in UK. Richard Trevithick in 1804 created the first steam locomotive train that was almost successful. However, it was Engineer George Stephenson who invented the first ...

Explain Spot Market?

Markets are crucial in every energy sector. Spot market is one of the markets in the business marketplace. It is worth noting that spot market is a physical market where various assets are sold and delivered immediately. The transaction that takes placed is in terms of cash. The spot market incorporates the sale of securities or commodities in cash basis. One of the major features of spot market is that the contracts that are carried out in the market are effected immediately. In most cases, spot market are confused with futures market. The difference is that the commodities and financial ...

Abstract

The development of the maritime industry and the related cargo operations in particular, is an extremely important and interesting part of the historical development of business relationships and industrialization. One of the turning points in the history is the development of the shipping container, which, according to many professionals and academics, have turned around the industry and had tremendous effect on the business as a whole along with the automatization of the cargo operations.

There are numerous factors, which influence the development of the containerized cargo and bulk transportation. Both modes of transportation are subject to economic, political, social, technological, ...

South Africa

South Africa is one of the esteemed and has been projected for growth in the African continent. The Republic of South Africa is geographically located at the southern part of the vast Africa content neighbored by Swaziland and Mozambique to the east and Zimbabwe Namibia and Botswana to the north. Its coastline extends along the Indian oceans and the south Atlantic. On estimation, it measures approximately 2798 kilometers. The country measures an area of about 1,221,037 square kilometers (Feinstein, 2005). According to the national statistics, the country had a population of 52,981,991 citizens and ranked as ...

Just as James Lovelock once said, “We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science”, it is true that in this age it is increasingly important to listen to the scientific facts, as science is the best tool we have to discern whether or not climate change is caused by mankind. The term “anthropogenic” is used to describe human-made climate change and means originating in human activity. Climate change is defined in the change in global climatic patterns since the mid-20th century and is not limited to ...

1. Introduction

The worlds electricity generation is about 17, 450 Twh. The most of which comes from coal and 20% of which comes from gas, and 16% of which comes from nuclear and hydro each. The coal is the carbon di oxide emitting substance per Kwh. The other pollutants are at the high levels. This substance continues to dominate the market with low cost and high availability. This substance continues to dominate the market with low cost and the high availability. This affects are not going to reduce the emission amount. The future investment is always needed to save the environment ...

United States of America has used oil as its main source of energy for a long time but, it can emulate the Simso community project. This because, however, they have ready access to oil in the state, the oil is a major source of global warming that leads to climate change. The Simso community initially used electricity that was coming mainly from the mainland that was passing through a cable and generation coming from coal. This affects the atmosphere as carbon dioxide is generated through the process in tones. For example, each sassing into the atmosphere generates almost eleven tones on an ...

Russia, one of the world’s most dominant countries, was founded as the “Principality of Muscovy” in the early 12th century after emerging from Mongol domination from the 13th to the 15th century . By the turn of the 17th century, the Principality of Muscovy was taken over by the Romanov Dynasty that expanded their territory to the entire Siberian region heading towards the Pacific Ocean. Peter I of the Romanov Dynasty, who ruled from 1682 to 1725, was responsible for naming this territory, which now included the Baltic Sea as “Russia”. Russia continued to expand in the ...

The European Union can be considered today as one of the world’s most influential powers as it represents twenty-eight member states in major international and even regional affairs. Many member nations see the EU as the result of their desire to ensure European integration to keep peace in the region. Considering the membership of these European states to the regional organization, it is a question for member countries and non-member countries as to who is more influential or powerful: the EU or the member countries? For some experts, the member countries are more powerful than the EU because they ...

Introduction

Currently, coal-fired power plants account for more than 80% of carbon dioxide emissions in the electric power industry of the United States and 33% of all the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Consequently, reducing carbon dioxide emissions that come from the coal plants is the focus of most proposals that intend to cut on the greenhouse gas emission. The options to do this include capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide that emitted by the coal power plants, replacing the coal power plants with the low or zero carbon dioxide sources of power like the nuclear and wind energy.

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Evaluate the costs and benefits (both economically and socially) of using coal, oil, and natural gas. In your evaluation provide pros and cons for which each energy source The cost and benefits of using coal, oil, and natural gas is that they are less costly and efficient in their use in comparison with other sources of energy such as firewood.

The pros of using coal, oil, and natural gas include the following;

The pros of using coal are that it produces large quantities by products such as petroleum and gases. The cons of using coal are that it ...

A union is an important part of any labor workforce. It encourages a two-way form of communication between the employer and the employees who are usually also members of a particular labor or otherwise known as a workforce union. Now, there are some things that a pre-made union leader may consider and take before finally being able to form a new labor union. Almost all general principles applied in a normal union can be applied to the Healthcare Administration setting. However, it has to be remembered that the differences between the nature of the job of one industry and the other should always be considered.

Five Things that an Organization may take during a Union Organizing Campaign

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This paper presents an overview of the North Sea area. In addition, it provides a history of the exploration of the area, petroleum occurrence and location of the North Sea. Consequently, it provides a description of the Stratigraphy of the southern Northern Sea, Central North Sea and the Northern North Sea. A brief description of the tectonic history of the area is provided taking note of the four major tectonic events that occurred. These were the Caledonian collision, rifting and basin formation as identified in the Carboniferous, Mesozoic rifting and graben formation and the inversion.

Province Geology (North Sea)

Introduction

Discovery of gas in the ...

The North Sea Petroleum Province is made up of Northern and Central North Sea. This is the greatest oil producing region in the world. It has been, for the last 30 years, playing a major role as Britain’s resource base and a contributor to the country’s wealth. This region also touches Norway and the Shetland Islands which are part of the Northern arms of the Late Jurassic system. This report gives an account of much of what is already known about Petroleum geology, Palaeogeography and tectonostratigraphic development of the Upper Jurassic, Middle Jurassic and the Lower Cretaceous rocks in ...

In the United States, power is generated from various sources. In 2014 alone, 4,093 billion KWh units were produced. The majority of these came from fossil fuels while renewable energy sources accounted for around 17%. The high percentage of fossil fuels used for electric power generation as compared to renewable energy sources leads to a more a pronounced environmental impact. The table below shows the percentage of the total power produced by the four major energy sources in 2014.

Negative effects of power production

Coal power production Coal is a fossil fuel that is combusted in steam boilers to generate steam for driving steam turbines. ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking as it is commonly referred to as, can be considered as the most innovative technology in energy production in the 21st century. Fracking is the process of breaking up the shale found beneath the surface of the earth to extract natural gas supplies (Hasset & Mathur, 11). It involves the process of drilling a series of holes into the ground, which are then pumped with a fluid (mainly water) to create pressure that forces natural gas out of the cracks for extraction. In as much as hydraulic fracturing has been adopted widely as a method of extracting oil and ...

1. (a) Brave Clean World is the best way to transition to hydrogen. Hydrogen Genie relies on market-driven competition; the problem is that market-driven economy is what is in place now. If the market alone was going to push the transition to the alternative fuel of hydrogen then this would have happened already. It might take a very long time for hydrogen to become viable if we wait for the market which seems to be hooked on oil. New World, Old Weapons is a good strategy to include along with the Brave Clean World strategy; modern technologies are designed to make fossil ...

Introduction

The monetary policy of Colombia has undergone numerous changes from 1994 to 2014. The primary purpose for doing so is to target inflation and stabilize the financial status of the country. For this object, state agencies and other monitoring authorities had occasionally evaluated the response of such policy in relation to various financial variables. Although there is not any specific and explicit target regarding real or nominal exchange rates and the monetary policy has to rely upon mainly on the variation of short-term exchange rates. Therefore, in an open economy like Colombia, exchange rates are considered as the most ...

Solar Panels

Costs Analysis for Maintaining and Repairing Solar Panels in Five Years Cost Benefit Analysis Maintenance Costs The essential expenses for sunlight based or the solar power are those connected with expenses and establishment or installation. Changing over a private home can run the proprietor averages of 35K to 40K relying upon what sort of framework is acquired and how huge their assessed vitality needs are [3]. Nevertheless, there are tax cuts and other money related motivators or the financial incentives accessible to help the property holders who are considering putting resources into a solar framework. As the innovation ...

Introduction

The United States of America is one of the leading countries where fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas are used to satisfy more or less 80% of the energy needs. Fossil fuels are utilized extensively for heating homes, running vehicles, providing power to the industrial sector, and for other significant purposes, especially the provision of electricity. However, it is also not an untold secret that the fossil fuels will eventually reduce considering the known reserves of the mentioned fossil fuels. It is also apparent that there has been a considerable increase in the costs related to the ...

Capture and storage of carbon dioxide is a complex process of separating CO2 from industrial and energy sources, transporting it to a storage location and isolating from the atmosphere. The CCS process is regarded as a fundamental part of mitigation measures aimed at stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Interestingly, CO2 capture can be applied to a range of industrial sites, such as steel making, ethanol fermentation, cement manufacture, fertilizers as well as refineries (Haszeldine 1647). When it comes to geological storage, it is worth noting that the best options are deep saline formations along with oil and gas fields that do ...

Introduction

The USA is the largest oil consumer in the world, followed by Europe, Asia and other regions. It consumes an estimated 20 million barrels of oil every day, which is 50% more than the oil consumption of the whole of the European Union with 60% more population density than the USA (Knittel 2012). The oil consumption of the USA is also twice the rate of the same in China. The USA is the largest oil importer in the world, importing more than 13.5 million barrels of oil per day, thereby accounting for more than 63% of the total daily ...

Among the various issues faced by societies globally is the danger associated with the so-called global warming or climate change. Although often used interchangeably, global warming and climate change are two different scenarios that have synergistic relationship. Defined as the overall increase in the global temperature due to excessive accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, global warming differs from climate change which is defined as the abnormally drastic change in climate patterns which have started since the beginning of the 20th century. Despite their differences, global warming and climate change are often seen as two inseparable phenomena. The ...

Global warming has evolved into a demure problem in the present-day world. The problem is very serious, as it concerns a possible lift of temperature and climate alter. Climate warming is a slow and gradual upsurge in the medium temperature on our planet that there is currently. Climate warming is a fact, with which to argue is pointless, and it is therefore necessary to take a sober and objective approach to its understanding. The Earth is warming and this has a tragic effect on the glaciers of our planet. The temperature surges, the ice begins to melt, and the sea level begins to rise. This ...

The industrial revolution is the historical period, which marks the shift from rural and agrarian society to the industrialized and mechanized system. The transformation from home-based production with basic tools to developed machinery and mass production began in England in 1760. The revolution was witnessed in two phases. The first industrial revolution lasted from 1760 to around 1840. The first phase identified the use of better machinery, water power and steam engine in industrial production. The evolution of textile industry enhanced the growth and employment in the economy. The second phase began in 1840 till 1890 (Kenneth E ...

There is no doubt that nearly 99 percent of all atmospheric sulfur dioxide is as a result of human activities. The chief sources of sulfur dioxide are industrial processes, for instance, those employed in the production of sulfuric coal, gas, and oil (AGDE, 2005). Additionally, some mineral ores have sulfur as a component, and when they are purified, sulfur dioxide is produced in the process. Another significant source of sulfur dioxide is fuel combustion by motor vehicles (AGDE, 2005). Looking at these sources, countries that do not process coal or sulfuric mineral ores like Canada suffer because of the sulfuric ...