Mystery: Why didn’t Tim get any tea?
Oil reserves ran out 10 years ago.
Tim did a couple of hours drum practice
when he got home from school.
The cookers in the Chinese restaurant
are fuelled by gas.
Tim’s home is solar powered.
Tim’s mobile phone has been in the
bottom of his school bag all week.
The local shops shut at 8.00pm each
day.
Tim’s dad works in Manchester. He
travels by train and stays away through
the week because of the cost of travel.
Tim’s mum tried to ring him as she had to
do 3 hours overtime and wouldn’t arrive
home until 8.00pm.
Gas fuel prices have shot up by 300%
over the past 3 years.
Tim’s mum works locally and walks to
work to avoid using the car.
Tim likes Chinese food.
Tim’s favourite food is stir-fry.
Tim’s mum goes shopping on Fridays
after work.
Thursday’s are Tim’s best days at school
as its football club after school.
Fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas
were laid down under the Earth’s surface
millions of years ago.
Tim’s dad added an extra layer of
insulation to the roof last winter and built
a wind-turbine in the garden.
Burning fossil fuels has increased the
amount of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.
Supplies of bio-fuel are rationed. Tim’s
parents’ car runs on bio-fuel.
The government have increased fossil
fuel prices in an attempt to reduce global
warming and global dimming.
When fossil fuels burn they release large
amounts of carbon dioxide and particles
of soot, ash & sufur compounds into the
atmosphere.
Millions of years ago dead plants and
animals settled at the bottom of the sea,
were covered in sediment and then
turned into rock. Heat and pressure
turned these remains into oil and natural
gas.
Plants can be grown to make biofuel. As
the plants grow they photosynthesise and
remove CO2. When they are burnt they
return the CO2 so overall they are
carbon-neutral They are renewable.