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

Transformer




You might be wondering what this is and well it is called a Transformer. George Westinghouse invented this transformer in 1885 to allow power to be efficiently transmitted over long distances. To transmits over to long distances it needs high voltage, which is very dangerous because you are using so much power that if you touch it, it can harm you. This made it possible to supply power to homes and businesses located far from the electric generating plant (Electricity Forum). Since the transformer needs high voltage, companies need to be very careful because it can overheat and cause a fire.

-Minanyiles Quintero

Works Cited:
"What Is Electricity? - Information Resource Center." What Is Electricity. Web. 23 Apr. 2015. 

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