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

Petroleum


Petroleum also known as crude oil is a chemical substance found deep down in earth surface. Petroleum can be either a yellow or black liquid that is mixed with hydrocarbons. The founder of petroleum is Colon Edwin Drake who was the first person to ever successfully drill an oil well ("Petroleum History"). He initially was looking for kerosene, which is a highly flammable hydrocarbon liquid, to fuel his light bulbs, however, he ended up finding petroleum. The people believed that petroleum was a substance that was useless and unnecessary that two business man where selling. However, once the war began oil then became a necessity. By the end of the war everyone had transition to vehicles, trucks, ships and planes. Due to this transition, oil began to become a critical component that every nation needed. The people began to think that in order to have speed and mobility we needed oil. By 1940 the United State was producing 65 percent of the world oil ("Petroleum History"). Today, we continue to use oil to fuel our vehicles. planes, ships and trucks. 
Work Cited: 
"Petroleum History." - The Environmental Literacy Council. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.              
"What Is Petroleum?" What Is Petroleum? Web. 14 Apr. 2015.        

 -Janine C.
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