Main menu  Nederlandse versie  Help  Sitemap  Dictionary  Search  Repeat intro  Information  Energy sources  Exhaustion  Global warming  Green energy  Hydrogen  Fuel cell  Applications  Politics  Archive  Teachers  Manual  Quiz-results  Downloads  Students  Teachers  Interact  Games -->  Discussionbord  Backgrounds  Copyright  About the team  About thinkquest  Links		Exhaustion In this article you learn about exhaustion and what de consequences are of exhaustion of fossil fuels. Also, you can learn which action should be taken to reduce the effects of exhaustion. What is exhaustion? What are the effects of exhaustion? How to reduce the effects of exhaustion? What is exhaustion? Exhaustion of raw material, like oil, coal and natural gas, means that there are no supplies of fossil fuels anymore. It took millions of years before there was oil, coal and natural gas and mankind takes it out of the earth within two-hundred years. What are the effects of exhaustion? This form of energy is not endless, so in the near future there shall not be fossil fuels anymore. Men should be searching for other energy sources. Fossil fuel is a cheap energy source and the most other energy sources are more expensive. The winning of fossil fuel doesn't take that much technique, the winning of other energy-sources does. An other effect of exhaustion is the subsidence of the soil with all the consequences that go with it. How to reduce the effects of exhaustion? The most easiest way to reduce the effects of exhaustion is to limit or to stop the winning of fossil fuels. Maybe it's better to do research for new sources of fuels, like green energy or energy out of hydrogen. Microsoft Word (.doc) Acrobat Reader (.pdf)
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