NONRENEWABLE

RESOURCES
John-Nicholas Furst, Raymond Ehlers,
and Noah Wade
What We Will Cover
 Current Status & Problems
 Efforts to Improve the Situation
 More that Needs to be Done
 What You Can Do
 How these Changes Will Improve the
World
Nonrenewable Resources
 Crude oil (Petroleum)
 Coal
 Uranium
 Natural Gas
Energy Consumption World
Wide
Current Status and
Problems
 They create pollution that destroys
ecosystems.
 Fossil fuels are not a sustainable
resource.
 At our current rate of oil consumption we
will have exhausted our oil reserves by
2056.
 The cost to update to new energy types
is an extreme economic challenge.
Laboratories Helping & Their
Efforts
National Renewable Energy Lab
Solar, Wind, Biomass, Geothermal,
Hydrogen Energy & Fuel cells
Renewable Energy Research Lab
Wind & Solar
Schatz Energy Research Center
Hydrogen Energy
What You Can Do
 Ride public transportation or bikes
 Recycle
 Save energy
 Use alternate forms of energy
Alternate Sources of Energy
 Solar Energy
 Hydrogen Energy
 Bio Fuels
 Wind Energy
Conclusion
 Nonrenewable resources are not going to
last and need to be change.
 The problem exists with our consumption
of energy not the resource themselves .
 Solving the problem is not as simple as
finding a energy resource that is
renewable.
Sources
 http://www.worldwise.com/nonrenewable.html
 http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter17
 http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/
 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-25503
 http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid479.php
 http://www.nrel.gov/
 http://www.ceere.org/rerl/
 http://www.humboldt.edu/~serc/