energy

• Non renewable

  • Being used and cannot be replaced
  • Known as finite resources and cant be used more than once
  • eg, coal, oil, gas
• Renewable

  • never run out and can be used over and over again
  • infinite resources
  • eg, wind, solar, HEP
• Recyclable

  • Provide energy from sources that can be recycles/ reused
  • eg, reprocessed uranium for nuclear power and biofuel energy
• Mining and drilling causes landscape scarring

  • locals dont like the views
  • Makes the place less appealing to visit
  • They put massive plots in the landscape so its all you can see and produces lots of gas and smoke
• Mining and drilling causes oil spills

  • Oil can end up spilling and polluting water which means animals cant drink it and it cant be used
  • bad for the environment
• Mining and drilling causes carbon emissions

  • affects people and animals
  • global
  • serious
  • long term
  • contributes to global warming
• Mining and drilling causes removal of forests

  • damages ecosystems
  • bad for carbon emissions
  • less trees and less biomass for ecosystems
  • no trees to remove carbon from the atmosphere
• Impacts of HEP flooding

  • damages towns and the land with all the water, lots of water flooding in a small space which damages the land so its hard to plant on it after the floods
• Impacts of land use for wind turbines

  • stored in fields which could be considered an eyesore
  • land cannot be used for anything else
  • Big so can be seen from a long way away
• Impacts of land use for solar panels

  • A large amount of them are required
  • Hard to put up and hard to maintain if they break
• How does technology affect non renewable energy resources?

  lots of technology is needed to extract the non renewables from the earth
• How does technology affect renewable/recyclable energy resources?

  required to set up and for maintenance of turbines and solar panels
• How do non renewable energy resources affect geology?

  Coal- place where there used to be tropical plants

  Oil- animals lived in the past
• How do renewable/recyclable energy resources affect geology?

  Wind- open spaces, high up

  Nuclear- hard rock, no earthquakes
• How do non renewable energy resources affect accessibility?

  Coal- easily accessible, needs limited railways

  Oil- near the surface, hard to access, easy to reach, oil has all been used
• How do renewable/recyclable energy resources affect accessibility?

  Nuclear- near the coast
• How do non renewable resources affect climate?

  Oil- not too warm, not too cold, not too far underwater
• How do renewable/recyclable resources affect climate?

  Wind- has to be windy

  Solar-Sunny, daylight hours
• How do non renewable resources affect the landscape?

  Oil- out at sea, fracking and tar sands, may get complaints
• How do renewable/recyclable energy resources affect the landscape?

  Wind- complaints about views, sound, aesthetics

  Solar- modern, few view complaints

  Nuclear- takes up lots of space
• If a country has low levels of economic development then it has less domestic appliances and industries that require energy so less is needed. HIC's use large amounts of energy for manufacturing
• Traditional fuel sources are finite resources. relying on them can lead to increased energy consumption. The traditional fuel sources contribute to global warming and has negative impacts on the environment
• As economic sectors grow, energy demands increase so energy consumption also increases. Industries, transport, residential, commercial all grow so there is more energy demand
• if a country becomes more developed, then there are more cars, industries, domestic appliances, larger housing which means that more energy is required to power the country. it would also be able to produce energy more efficiently so it can use the money and also export the energy to other countries
• Rising capita per GDP

  Each person is buying more domestic goods and using more so that means you need more oil to work these things which increases oil supply and demand
• Rapid industrialisation in emerging countries

  The country is becoming more developed, it uses more domestic appliances, cars, transport and bigger industries which means there is an increase supply and demand of oil
• Tar sands

  • Chemicals from the tar sands can pollute the waters, lots of water is also required for the extraction process
  • mining of tar sands can cause loss in habitats
  • Emits up to 3x more global warming pollution
• Shale gas (fracking)

  • Increases density of wastewater treatment which means the water that plants and animals are drinking has dangerous chemicals in it
  • extraction leads to methane being leaked into the atmosphere which makes shale gad more polluting than coal
• Energy efficiency


  using technology that requires less energy to perform the same function
• Energy conservation


  any behaviour that results in the use of less energy
• wind and solar energy are cheaper than gas but its harder to store
• Rising affluence


  the more developed countries can afford to encourage alternative sources