Energy Resources and their Uses

• Energy Resources


  • Renewable
  • Non-renewable
• Non-renewable energy resources


  Fossil fuels and nuclear fuel (e.g. uranium and plutonium)
• Main fossil fuels


  • Coal
  • Oil
  • Natural Gas
• Non-renewable energy resources will run out one day
• Non-renewable energy resources do damage to the environment
• Non-renewable energy resources are reliable
• Renewable energy resources


  Will never run out, the energy can be 'renewed' as it is used
• Renewable energy resources


  • The Sun (Solar)
  • Wind
  • Water waves
  • Hydro-electricity
  • Bio-fuel
  • Tides
  • Geothermal
• Most renewable energy resources do damage the environment, but in less nasty ways than non-renewables
• Renewable energy resources don't provide much energy and some are unreliable because they depend on the weather
• Non-renewable energy resources used for transport

  • Petrol and diesel powered vehicles
  • Coal used in some old-fashioned steam trains
• Renewable energy resources used for transport


  • Vehicles that run on pure bio-fuels or a mix of a bio-fuel and petrol or diesel
• Non-renewable energy resources used for heating

  • Natural gas
  • Coal burnt in fireplaces
  • Electric heaters
• Renewable energy resources used for heating

  • Geothermal (or ground source) heat pump
  • Solar water heaters
  • Burning bio-fuel or using electricity generated from renewable resources