Nigeria Fossil Fuel

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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