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Fossil fuel

Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons, primarily coal, fuel oil or natural gas, formed from the remains of dead
plants and animals.

In common dialogue, the term fossil fuel also includes hydrocarbon-containing natural resources that are
not derived from animal or plant sources.

These are sometimes known instead as mineral fuels.

The utilization of fossil fuels has enabled large-scale industrial development and largely supplanted
water-driven mills, as well as the combustion of wood or peat for heat.

Fossil fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from
decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by
exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years.

Explanation:

Fossil fuels are formed when organic matter that has been buried deep within the earth are subject to
heat and pressure over millions of years.

The image below shows how oil and natural gas form

DescriptionA fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried
dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis. Such organisms and their
resulting fossil fuels typically have an age of millions of years, and sometimes more than 650 million
years

Geothermal Energy

These underground reservoirs of steam and hot water can be tapped to generate electricity or to heat
and cool buildings directly.

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY HAS been used for thousands of years in some countries for cooking and heating.
It is simply power derived from the Earth’s internal heat.
This thermal energy is contained in the rock and fluids beneath Earth’s crust. It can be found from
shallow ground to several miles below the surface, and even farther down to the extremely hot molten
rock called magma.

How Is It Used?

These underground reservoirs of steam and hot water can be tapped to generate electricity or to heat
and cool buildings directly.

A geothermal heat pump system can take advantage of the constant temperature of the upper ten feet
(three meters) of the Earth’s surface to heat a home in the winter, while extracting heat from the
building and transferring it back to the relatively cooler ground in the summer.

Geothermal water from deeper in the Earth can be used directly for heating homes and offices, or for
growing plants in greenhouses. Some U.S. cities pipe geothermal hot water under roads and sidewalks to
melt snow.

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