Anette Aatangen
Kim Bjoerklund
Sunniva Kristensen
Herman Skogvold
Sander Vunderink
Michiel van der Werf
Debby Koopmans
Renewable Resources
Everywhere we go there is energy around us. All animals, plants, humans need it to live. Also machines need energy to be able to work, and our lives are dependent on a lot of these machines. Nowadays we can’t imagine living without them. Though, if we continue using energy for these machines the way we do it now, we won’t be able to use them much longer. Because this energy is running out. We’re talking about electricity, which is mostly produced by three fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas. They are burned to heat up water. This produces steam, which makes a turbine move, which produces energy. This way of producing energy, causes that in the world every hour almost 1 million barrel of fossil fuels are burned, permanently. However, the stock of fossil fuels are running out. There is only enough coal in the world for another 300 years......
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