Human-Environment system project report
luckcyn
proposal.docxMy topic is about the traditional fossil fuels and renewable energy. Specifically, my project will talk about whether the renewable energy will replace the fossil fuels or not. Basically, this topic is covered in the broad categories of Energy and Energy Resources.
What are fossil fuels? Fossil fuels are formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years. And we all know that fossil fuel is still one of the main sources of energy, but fossil fuels are not renewable energy, it takes the nature millions of years to produce new fossil fuels, while the speed that we use the fossil fuels is much faster that the nature produces them. Therefore, inadequate supply of fossil fuels will cause the energy crisis and it has become a globalize problem. Especially the gas, which refined from the fossil fuels, has the greatest impact to the world. Like the late 20th century, the insufficient fossil oil supply caused energy crisis three times. In order to solve this issue, the world is moving towards the development of renewable energy, which can help increase the energy needed in worldwide.
Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat. Renewable energy replaces conventional fuels in four distinct areas: electricity generation, hot water/space heating, motor fuels, and rural energy services. The reason why people start to use the renewable energy is that the renewable energy is good for the human environment system, it produces much less pollution than the fossil fuels do. Also, doesn’t like the fossil fuels, people have a lot of ways to get the unlimited renewable energy.
But, the renewable energy also has his weakness. It doesn’t have the high efficiency like the fossil fuels do. And the use of the fossil fuels has a really long history, which means human already have a very proven technique on using fossil fuels. So it will be very hard to transform from fossil fuels to renewable energy. And as we know, the most weakness is the efficiency. It is the major problem of renewable.
So, this project will study on whether the renewable energy could completely replace the fossil fuels or not, and could people solve the efficiency problem of the renewable energy.
