Introduction

This blog will focus on fire but more specifically, on petroleum, natural gas, forest fire, energy efficiency and management as well as energy and power. Fire is a combustion of certain chemicals combined with oxygen in the air that typically gives off a bright light, heat and smoke. Fire can be deadly as it can destroy homes, wildlife habitat, timber and can also pollute the air with emissions such as carbon dioxide, that is harmful to human health. For many centuries, we have used petroleum as fuel. Petroleum is a yellow, black liquid that is mixed with hydrocarbons. Natural gas consists of mostly methane and hydrocarbons. Due to industrial factories using petroleum and natural gas as their energy source, it has caused great damage to the environment. Some of the material that have been produced that contain natural gas have caused wildfires to occur. Forest fires are an uncontrollable fire that occurs within nature, emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, causing more pollution and harm to wildlife. In reducing carbon dioxide and global warming, we have become energy efficient by using solar power and wind power. Energy efficiency is achieved by using less energy when using or making our daily products. Wind power is a sustainable way to generate electricity because it does not produce pollution. The decrease of air pollution will be the result of an increase in renewable energy. Becoming aware of the components that lead to a fire will lead us to obtain more energy and become more power efficient.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Natural Gas


Natural gas which is highly flammable, is a mixture of methane and hydrocarbons. According to the “Natural Gas Organization”, natural gas was first used in ancient time by the ancient Greece. Afterwards, the Chinese used bamboo as pipelines to transfer natural gas to heat salt water to make it drinkable. The first time natural gas was used as fuel was in Britain when natural gas was produced from coal, to light houses and streets. In the United States, natural gas was first used in 1816 to light the streets of Baltimore, Maryland (Natgas). Colonel Edwin Drake founded both petroleum and natural gas after drilling 69 feet below earth surface (Natgas). By 1821 the first well specifically drilled in search for natural gas was dug by William Hart; he later became known as the “father of natural gas” (Natgas).  In the 19 century natural gas was only used as a fuel for light (Natgas). However, 1885 Robert Bunsen invented the Bunsen burner, which was an object that successfully balance the amount of natural gas and air together, which then creates flame that people could use to cook and heat (Natgas). By the 20th century pipeline where built around the country to transfer natural gas to homes (Natgas). Now natural gas was not only used as a fuel to light up streets and homes but also it was used to cook and heat.

Work Cited:
Natgas. "NaturalGas.org." NaturalGasorg. WordPress and Newsprint Theme, 20 Sept. 2013. Web. 21 Apr. 2015.

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