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.

Monday, May 4, 2015

Beneficial Forest Fires


The destructive manner of wildfires helps the environment and the forest’s habitat in a variety of ways. The intense heat of these fires strip the nutrients and minerals out of many burning plants, restoring the soil’s composition and creating amore fertile growing area for new species. 

Not only do they remove dead and decaying plants that act as fuel for future fires, wildfires also work to eliminate dense foliage and thin out the forest allowing plants closer to the forest floor to come in more contact with sunlight and rain. 


Webs Cited: "The Many Benefits of Forest Fires." GEOL 105 Natural Hazards. The Wordpress Experts, 13 Feb. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. 



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