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Compressed Gas: Helium

Helium was discovered by a French astronomer named Pierre-Julius-Cesar Janssen. The French astronomer got evidence for the element during solar eclipse in 1868. He detected new lines in the solar spectrum. Later in 1895 Sir William Ramsay discovered it in clevite, a uranium mineral. Although ...

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Shale Gas Revolution And Potential Impact On World Energy Markets

Shale Gas Revolution And Potential Impact On World Energy Markets Dr Slava Mikhaylov 1) What is shale? A geological structure that has tiny pockets of gas or oil. 2) How does shale extraction happen? Drill is turn sideways (horizontal) and use water, sand and small explosions ...

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Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are fuels formed by natural resources 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. These fuels contain high percentage of ...

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"How Is Helium Produced?"

Production: Although Helium is one of the most common elements in the universe it is a rare gas on earth. It exists in the atmosphere in such small quantities (less than five parts per million) that recovering it from the air is uneconomical. Helium is produced as a by-product of the refining of ...

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Primary Energy Sources In Brazil

Oil Brazil is the world's 15th largest oil producer. Up to 1997, the oil monopoly belonged to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras). As of today, more than 50 oil companies are engaged in oil exploration. The only global oil producer is Petrobras, with output of more than 2 million barrels ...

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T. Boone Pickens

T. Boone Pickens T, Boone Pickens is a legend in the oil business. He was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma in 1928. He found Mesa Petroleum in 1956 which became one of the largest independent Oil companies by 1981. Mesa Petroleum was sold to Parker and Parsley Petroleum in 1997 and T. Boone ...

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Acid Rain

is rain that is more acidic than normal. is a complicated problem. Caused by air pollution, 's spread and damage involves weather, chemistry, soil, and the life cycles of plants and animals on the land and from in the water. Scientists have discovered that air pollution from the burning of ...

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Anti-Coal

The increase in population from year to year results in an increase in the demand for affordable energy. This growing demand in turn places considerable stress on the finite resources that produce this affordable energy. There is a daunting amount of scientific evidence warning people about the ...

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Fracking

Bandy, Catherine Introduction to Global Studies Assignment 1, Topic Selection July 8, 2012 Chapter 5 --- The Natural Environment Ongoing Global Environmental Challenges is a subset of the chapter in the text which seeks to examine the issues facing the world in terms of vital resources one ...

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Death Of A Planet

Air pollution is a very big problem in the United States. A large part of air pollution comes from cars. The Environmental Protection Agency says, "The most polluting activity an average person does everyday is drive their car"(1 factsheet OMS-5). Most people probably aren't aware that they ...

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Stalin And The Soviet Union

Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 to 1953, the despotic ruler who more than any other individual molded the features that characterized the Soviet regime and shaped the direction of Europe after World ...

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Global Warming

The Earth is kept warm by it's atmosphere, which acts rather like a woolly coat - without it, the average surface temperature would be about -18 degrees Centigrade. Heat from the sun passes through the atmosphere, warming it up, and most of it warms the surface of the planet. As the Earth warms up, ...

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Thermal Power

A thermal power station is a power station in which heat energy is converted to electric power. In most of the places in the world the turbine is steam-driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the ...

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Mans Discovery Of Fossil Fuels Could Be His Downfall. Discus

Throughout the entire history of mankind, the technological advancements that civilisations have made have always been tied in with the development of energy sources. The first human energy technology was fire, along with human labour as the major energy source. This has bee supplemented by ...

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The Future Looks Bright For Ja

pan Over the past 40 years nuclear energy has gone from being the energy source of the future to the energy source that everyone fears. The world has faced 20 plus nuclear accidents since testing began in the 1950’s (www.hempwine.com). Three of the four most disastrous nuclear accidents ...

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Heating Commodities

Back in the middle of October, the price of natural-gas had risen because a gas company was forced to shut down a pipeline due to the need for repairs. This impending shortage led to the decrease in prices for other heating commodities, as well as larger profits. The demand for energy ...

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China New Approach In Africa Advantage, Concern And Implications

CHINA NEW APPROACH IN AFRICA ADVANTAGE, CONCERN AND IMPLICATIONS * INTRODUCTION From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, China provided support to several revolutionary movements in Africa. The Chinese Communist Party opposed liberal ideas ( democracy) supported by most western countries such ...

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Greenhouse Gases And Consequences

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that warms the earth and enables it to support life. Without it, the average temperature on earth would be around -18 degrees C, instead of the current +15 degrees C - a frozen wilderness. It works on the same principles as the ordinary glass garden ...

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Air Polution

Problem The first thing people see, in the morning, when they walk outside is the sky or the colored sun. Is this world giving us the privilege of seeing the natural colors of the sun through all the layers of pollution within the air (Dinanike 31)? Not only are beautiful sights such as this ...

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Air Pollution

The first thing people see, in the morning, when they walk outside is the sky or the colored sun. Is this world giving us the privilege of seeing the natural colors of the sun through all the layers of pollution within the air (Dinanike 31)? Not only are beautiful sights such as this hidden behind ...

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