https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5 Allen Bishop, Kamaya Felder, MJ Kendrick, & Catelyn Johns en-us 2019-04-05 13:54:32 UTC 2025-11-03 06:37:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png group2hankins https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/348936985 The source of energy power plants use is fossil fuels or oil. The fossil fuel is a crude oil-based petroleum. Oils source of energy is the sun, because it harnesses the rays of energy, after the oil takes the sun’s energy rays, we then convert the energy from the oil causing us to have electricity/energy.

This is what powers oil power plants.]]> 2019-04-05 14:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/348936985 group2hankins https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/348938526 Conventional steam- oil is burned to heat water to create steam to generate electricity.
Combustion turbine- oil is burned under pressure to produce hot exhausted gases which spin a turbine to generate electricity.]]> 2019-04-05 14:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/348938526 group2hankins https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/348948996 When oil is burned for electricity, sulfur dioxide, mercury compounds, and nitrogen oxides are produced. They combine with nitrogen oxides to create ground level ozone’s, commonly known as smog]]> 2019-04-05 14:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/348948996 group2hankins https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/349083099 We get imported petroleum from foreign countries. We get 3,654,000,000 lbs. per day and 1,334,623,500,000 lbs. per year which is only about 11% of our energy from petroleum products. 57% is imported and 70% of all oil products are consumed by U.S. mostly for vehicle use. The U.S. spends more than $300 million on oil a year.]]> 2019-04-05 20:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/349083099 group2hankins https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/350574114 For power generation capacity capital costs are often expressed as overnight cost per watt. The EIA estimates states that gas/oil combined cycle power plant-$1000/kw.

Site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cost_of_electricity_by_source]]> 2019-04-10 22:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/350574114 group2hankins https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/350574881 Oil comes from organic material mostly algae which was quickly buried in mud at the bottom of oceans and lakes; pressure heat and time converted the organic material into kerogen, oil and natural gas.]]> 2019-04-10 22:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/group2hankins/fo13xi6remb5/wish/350574881