Energy Resources

• Advantages of fossil fuels.

  • Reliable -- electricity can be generated all of the time as fuel is always available
  • High Power Output
• Disadvantages of fossil fuels.

  • Non-Renewable
  • Produces Co2, contributes to global warming
  • Produces sulphur dioxide, a gas which can cause acid rain
• Advantages of nuclear fuel.

  • Doesn't produce Co2
  • Reliable -- electricity can be generated all the time as fuel and is always available
  • Very high Power output
• Disadvantages of nuclear fuel.


  • Non-renewable
  • Produces nuclear waste, which remains for thousands of years
  • Expensive to build and decommission nuclear power stations