One of the biggest benefits of fossil fuels is their cost. Coal, oil and natural gas are abundant right now and relatively inexpensive to drill or mine for. In fact, coal is the most plentiful fossil fuel and it is found over much of the world. Because the costs are contained, electricity and fuels for transportation and heating are available to everyone.
Some advantages of fossil fuels are:
- Depending on fuel, good availability
- Simple combustion process can directly heat or generate electricity
- Relatively inexpensive to utilize
- Easily distributed
- Very large amounts of electricity can be generated in one place using coal, fairly cheaply.
- Gas-fired power stations are very efficient.
- A fossil-fuelled power station can be located almost anywhere, so long as you can get large quantities of fuel to it. Didcot power station, in Oxfordshire, has a dedicated rail link to supply the coal.
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The primary advantages are that fossil fuels :
* have a higher energy density - more energy per volume unit - than alternatives like hydrogen (allowing a smaller fuel tank for the same range)
* are simpler and safer than alternatives like nuclear power
* are safer than hydrogen as well, because no pressurization is needed
* easy to transport; abundant and inexpensive
* other than coal : little or no residue (e.g. compared to wood burning)
Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) is a quick and easy way to produce electricity and to power transport. Gasoline in an engine is very powerful.
It has many disadvantages, the main one being the carbon dioxide greenhouse gas that burning fossil fuels releases into the atmosphere, as well as other pollutants.
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Well at the moment, it is cheaper to obtain large amounts of fossil fuel. Energy created by the burning of fossil fuel is also cheaper to produce than any other source due to it's simple combustion process. Fossil Fuels are also much easier to distribute than other fuels, and as long as you have fossil fuels to burn you can do it anywhere, unlike other energy sources which much be placed in very specific environments.
Fossil fuels benefits include relatively easy to access, reliable, and abundance. Unlike some of the alternatives, fossil fuels are not weather dependent.
Without fossil fuels we wouldn't havee anythingg :) but pollution is a bigg deal too soo yeahh,,
Advantages are that it is cheap
Disadvantages are it pollution
Fossil fuels are readily available, especially coal, reliable, don't depend on the weather like wind and solar do, and don't produce radioactive waste as a problem for the future.
Fossil fuel may be used in the production of biofuels.
With fossil fuels we burn them to produce heat. With nuclear fuel we produce a nuclear chain reaction in a reactor which produces heat. Using the heat to produce electricity is the same for both types of fuel.
There is a source of energy that is more friendly to the environment that has not been looked into yet such as using the force from the waves to power everything that fossil fuels are being used currently to power and you could use wind power as well to make a better alternative to fossil fuels
All fossil fuels have to be removed from underground:coal - dug outoil - drilled down to then pumped up from undergroundnatural gas - collected into wells that are cappedfracked gas - fracked from within rocks underground and extracted to the surfaceAll fossil fuels must be heated and burned to release usable energy.
Wind generates power. It creates and moves weather systems along and by using it to generate power, the use of fossil fuels that are destroying Earth's atmosphere can be eliminated.
Two alternatives are Hydroelectric and Geothermal.
There are several benefits of using fossil fuels as compared to other forms of fuel. Some benefits are that fossil fuels are readily available in large quantity and are easy to process. Other benefits are that fossil fuels produce more energy and are cheaper.
Stop using them. Instead use renewable alternatives.
There are many other alternatives to using our fossil fuels, get online silly! Google things like wind, solar energy, and water energy....
Fossil fuels and uranium
Benefits: Mostly everything we use in the world needs fossil fuels. Gasoline for cars, energy for light, etc. The world has used it for many years and is still using it.Limitations: Fossil fuels will run out eventually, so if we do not start using renewable energy we could be in BIG trouble! Fossil fuels also harm the planet. It adds too much carbon dioxide to the ozone. Fossil fuels also harm the plants and animals in the planet too.
There will eventually be no fossil fuels to use in the world.
Population affects fossill fuels by people using the fossil fuels
There are many alternatives to fossil fuels. We can generate electricity by using nuclear, solar, wind, and other sources of power. We can also manufacture fuels out of corn or other crops. Of course, even though fossil fuels can be replaced, that is expensive, and the economic consequences are very serious. Whether the human race can make the transition smoothly, remains to be seen.
No. Some electricity is made by using fossil fuels. There's a difference.
No. Fossil fuels store chemical energy. It is this chemical energy we tap by using them for fuels.
The enerrgy is cleaner and it is a renewable resource