Nigeria Fossil Fuel
Introduction:
Energy is something that
everyone needs and without the energy nobody can do anything or make any changes.
This is what the fossil fuel represents and it represents the energy. The
fossil fuels are created by the natural processes such as anaerobic decay of
buried dead organisms. Some people don't know that after millions of years the
organisms becomes fossil fuel, sometime they go beyond 650 million years. The
fossil fuels have a high percentage of carbon and involve coal, natural gas,
and petroleum (Fossil fuel - Wikipedia 2013). The fossil fuel get a lot of money, but
what we forget is that it's also bring a lot of problems with it. There is a
problem when we get the fossil fuel from the ground, when we also burn fossil
fuels. The threat of climate change has made it clear that we are going to have
some problems with reducing emissions that we produce (The Problem with Fossil
Fuels, 2013). As said,
“fossil fuel is one time energy present to the human race” (Non-renewable
energy, Fossil Fuel, 2013). As we know that when the fossil fuel created it
took millions of years to be ready for us, the time will come when it finishes
and it will take another million of years. The problem that we use this energy
source as it will be gone after time. Another problem is that, we make our
wealth and economy on something cheap (Non-renewable energy, Fossil Fuel, 2013).
The biggest problem is that we don't have any preparation to be move over to
renewal energy sources. A lot of people think, are there any Alternatives to
fossil fuel or not? There are a lot of sources to the fossil fuel but the
problem is that we put everything depending on the fossil fuel at this time.
Energy solutions:
For the coming future we need a lot of energy solutions that will
replace the fossil fuel when it starts to vanish. There is a lot of alternative sources are used widely.
Hydroelectric and also nuclear energy factories provide a large part of the
world power (Alternatives to Fossil Fuels, 2013). Other sources are involved
solar energy, wind power and water power (Alternatives to Fossil Fuels, 2013).
People consider the nuclear energy one of the biggest solutions for the
replacement of the fossil fuel. Nuclear power uses sustained nuclear fission to
generate heat electricity (Nuclear power, 2013). The nuclear factories provided
an almost 6% of the world energy and 13% of the world's electricity (Nuclear
power, 2013). They want the nuclear to be used in generating electricity.
Nuclear energy needs to be harnessed directly to the processes such as hydrogen
production or desalination, above the general role of generating electricity (Sustainable
Energy, 2011). People consider as the most clean alternative power and this is
maybe the perfect way to replace the fossil fuel solar power. The solar power
considered as the best energy that is available, that is an opinion from an environmental
perspective. As they say, "a1.5 kilowatt PV system will keep more than
100,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from been released" (Sustainable Energy,
2011). The carbon dioxide is the reason for the greenhouse effect, and solar power
will keep it out of the atmosphere over the next 25 years (Sustainable Energy, 2011).
Our need to burn 60,000 pounds of coal will be prevented by the solar system as
we need. With this power there will be no acid rain, no urban smog, and the
most important to pollutions of any kind (Fossil fuel -
Wikipedia 2013). If we
think that is the only energy that is useful power we will be wrong. One of the
most important powers is the wind energy. A lot of people start to admit that
wind energy is one of the most tangible and promising new source of energy that
consider as an alternative to fossil fuels generated electricity. Since 1999,
wind energy capacity reached 10,000 megawatts, which is considered as 16
billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
Case Study (Country):
Which country that has a good impact in the fossil fuel field
better than Nigeria? Nigeria is positioned number 9 among 36 countries (Orogun,
P. S, 2009). Above all this, Nigeria is a country that has a high population
and they consider it as the most populous nation in the area. More than 90% of
the country’s external revenues come from the crude oil exports. With all this
even the non-oil producing sectors are started to show significant revenue
generating capabilities (Orogun, P. S, 2009). As numbers we know a country like
Nigeria has a high population and this population has about forty ethnics
groups and there are more than 30 million people who reside in the greater
Niger Delta region (Orogun, P. S, 2009). What Nigeria depends on is the natural
gas. The gas is the first source in Nigeria for living and for economy. Nigeria
tries to use a lot of sources to replace the petrol or gas is specific word or
to make them as a secondary sources. Nigeria try to use sources that will not be
disappear now or in the future, such as solar, hydro, wind and biomass (Ohunakia,
O. S, 2010). What considers the alternative energy is the solar power. The
solar power is a clean energy and they want use it at home to help the man's
survival into this century and beyond (Nigeria Alternative Energy, 2013). Nigeria has a future plan to use 7 percent of
the renewal energy by 2025 and this is a very proactive commitment. A fact
that, 60 percent of the Nigerian people they are not connected to the national grid
(Okanlawon,
L, 2012). This step will take Nigeria to a high
standard of living and will give them the freedom to find other sources that
will help because they don’t need to be careful about the limits of these
sources. The renewable sources will take many years to be finished or start to
disappear.
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