RENEWABLE & NONRENEWABLE
ENERGY RESOURCES
Your energy usage…
• Make a list of everything that you have done
today that involved using energy of any sort.
(From when you first awoke until now.)
• Next to each of these tasks, write down from
where you think the energy originated.
RENEWABLE OR NONRENEWABLE?
Now mark down on your paper which of these
energy origins would be regarded as renewable
and which would be nonrenewable resources.
Where does Northern Ohio’s
Energy Come From?
• PUCO
NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES
A nonrenewable resource is a natural
resource that cannot be re-made or
re-grown at a scale comparable
to
its consumption.
COAL 86%
• Coal – nonrenewable fossil fuel.
• Coal is burned to produce heat, which converts
water into high-pressure steam.
• The steam turns the blades of a turbine that is
connected to a generator.
• The generator spins and converts mechanical
energy to electricity.
• First Energy -- YouTube -- Coal to Electricity
Generation
HOW IS COAL MADE ???
NATURAL GAS 2%
• Natural gas – nonrenewable fossil fuel
• Can either be burned to produce steam or to
produce hot combustion gas that passes through
the turbine blades.
• Approximately 2 percent of the electricity in
Ohio is produced using natural gas and other
gases.
PETROLEUM 1%
• Petroleum – nonrenewable fossil fuel
• Burned to create steam to turn the turbine
blades.
• The most common form of petroleum used to
make electricity is fuel oil, a type of oil that is
refined from crude oil.
• Petroleum generates approximately
1 % of Ohio electricity.
HOW ARE OIL AND GAS MADE ???
Burning of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
COAL, PETROLEUM, AND GAS
Coal, petroleum, and
natural gas are
considered nonrenewable
because they can not be
replenished in a short period
of time. These are called
fossil fuels.
NUCLEAR 10%
• Nuclear power involves a process called fission
in which the atoms of the element uranium split
• The splitting of atoms releases heat to turn water
into steam and rotate the turbine blades.
• Nuclear power is nonrenewable and is used to
generate about 10 percent of Ohio electricity.
• How Nuclear Energy is Generated -- eHow
NUCLEAR ENERGY
Nuclear fission uses
uranium to create
energy.
Nuclear energy is a
nonrenewable resource
because once the
uranium is used, it is
gone!
HMMMM....
If nonrenewable
resources are resources
that cannot be re-made
at a scale comparable
to its consumption,
what are renewable
resources?
RENEWABLE RESOURCES
Renewable resources are
natural resources that can
be replenished in a short
period of time.
● Solar ● Geothermal
● Wind ● Biomass
● Water
HYDROPOWER 1%
• In hydropower generation, flowing water is used
to spin the turbine connected to the generator.
• Hydropower plants can use the current from a
river or falling water that has accumulated in a
dam to create the force needed to turn the
turbine blades.
• Hydropower and the other renewable resources
described below currently account for about 1
percent of electric generation in Ohio.
DAM!
WIND TURBINES
• Wind turbines harness the force of the natural
wind to turn the generator turbine.
• Wind power is a renewable energy resource.
• Lake Erie Energy Development Co.
SOLAR POWER
• Solar power uses photovoltaic cells to harness
the energy of the sun to produce energy.
• Solar power is a renewable energy resource.
NELLIS AFB, NEVADA
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
• Geothermal energy involves the heat buried
beneath the surface of the earth.
• This heat transforms water into steam, which is
then tapped to be used at steam-turbine plants.
• Geothermal energy is a renewable energy
resource.
• Grindstone Elementary uses Geothermal Energy
How Geothermal Works
GEOTHERMAL
BIOMASS
• Biomass energy resources include wood,
garbage, and crop waste such as corn and wheat
that can be burned to heat water and create
steam to turn the turbine blades.