Coal Changes Everything Energy needs in the 1700s were was used to heat homes and keep simple Industry and manufacturing pots boiling Fossil fuels we know had not developed yet There was no today such as coal and oil were machinery to power Animals did the available but not widely used hard work plowing fields and pulling One fossil fuel that changed the equipment Windmills crushed grain world was coal It was used for or pumped water But people have thousands of years as a heat always burned materials source Coal burned hotter than for energy Wood wood or other materials and made less smoke It was The Industrial Revolution led to the growth of factories and jobs great at producing steam to power steam engines of ships and trains Steam power helped industry develop This time period of growth in manufacturing was called the Industrial Revolution It began in Europe in the 1700s By the 1800s the Industrial Revolution had reached the United States Soon more uses were found for coal By 1875 coal was used to heat furnaces in factories that produced steel Building and manufacturing took off Then in 1880 coal was
MINING COAL 300 million There are two methods to extract coal from the ground Most coal mined in the United States is near Estimated age in years of the oldest coal found in the United States the surface Machines remove layers of rock to get at the coal Underground mines can be 1 000 feet 305 m deep and miles long Machines dig for coal and send it to the surface Coal was discovered thousands of years ago It was not widely used as fuel until the 1700s Coal was used heavily during the industrial Revolution in the 1700s and 1800s Steam power helped industry develop Oil became the dominant energy source for transportation in the late 1800s During this same time period oil was also being used more often Oil gives off light when burned and was first used in lamps as a lighting source But its potential was soon discovered as a fuel source It became the dominant energy source S for transportation around the world The use of fossil fuels has continued today But oil and coal are limited resources The need to develop new energy sources has become more important used to generate electricity for the first time Homes began using coal for heat and for
The World Runs on Fossil Fuels Fossil fuels have been the world's Fossil fuel use continues to grow primary energy source since the around the world In 2014 oil late 1800s Coal was widely used consumption grew by 0 8 percent then But so were other fuels such Natural gas and coal use increased as natural gas and oil Natural gas is by 0 4 percent The United States drawn out of the ground Lamps that produces the most natural gas and burned gas for light were the main oil in the world lighting source in the United States Concerns about pollution and until the lightbulb was invented climate change are on the rise The first modern oil well was As a result energy established in Pennsylvania in 1859 consumption Since that time oil has transformed the world's energy use It is the dominant fuel for transportation Out of a 42 gallon 159 L barrel of oil 44 9 percent goes to make gasoline Another 9 5 percent goes toward jet fuel In the United States fossil fuels power 95 percent of all transportation Gas lamps were used in homes and as street lamps in the
ELLS China produces the most coal in a the world has decreased in recent years In 2014 energy use in Europe declined by 3 9 percent But even with slowing demand fossil fuels will not 9 4 million be around forever Barrels of oil produced per day by the United States in 2015 FINDING OIL Oil companies have become very successful at finding oil Over the last 150 years more than 2 million oil wells have been drilled trying to find oil But it has taken time Oil is difficult to find It is buried within rock formations These underground formations can be as large as a major city Once a formation is found it can take millions of dollars and years of time to set up a successful well Fossil fuels have been the world's primary energy source since the late 1800s Oil is the dominant fossil fuel used in 95 percent of US transportation needs The United States produces the most oil and natural gas in the world Demand is slowing but still increasing with each
