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Useful Resources For Researching Oil And Alternative Energy

Here are a few useful links and ideas to help you research fossil fuels and alternative energy.

 

Links to really useful sites about Fossil Fuels.

Wikipedia article on fossil fuels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel

Learning about fossil fuels
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/education/energylessons/index.html

Fossils into Fuels (by Schoolscience)
http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/content/4/chemistry/fossils/index.html

Billions of Barrels of oil discovered in Gulf of Mexico (a news article)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090500275.html

Wikipedia article on Petroleum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum

The story of Black Gold ( teaching resource and useful notes)
http://www.teachingtools.com/CrudeEnergy/BlackGold.htm

Links to really useful sites about Alternative Energy

Alternative energy inspires new power generation

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,1845753,00.html

Wind turbines taking toll on birds of prey
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-01-04-windmills-usat_x.htm

The Case Against Wind'farms'
http://www.countryguardian.net/case.htm

The UK wind and marine renewable energy site
http://www.bwea.com/index.html

Wave Power (Wikipedia article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power

Solar Power ( Wikipedia article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power

Wind and Wave Power (Q and A from BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1651496.stm

Geothermal energy (teaching resource)
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter11.html

Hydro-electric power (teaching resource)
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter12.html

Nuclear energy (teaching resource)
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter13.html

 

 

 

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