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 * Chapter 15: Nonrenewable Energy Resources**
 * 9. Energy Resources and Consumption || A. Energy Consumption: Present global energy use, future global energy needs || Miller chapter 15 ||  ||
 * || B. Fossil Fuel Resources and Use: Formation of coal, oil, and natural gas, extraction and purification methods, world reserves and global demand, synfuels, environmental advantages and disadvantages of sources || Miller chapter 15 ||  ||
 * || C. Nuclear Energy: Nuclear fission process, nuclear fuel, electricity production, nuclear reactor types, environmental advantages/ disadvantages, safety issues, radiation and human health, radioactive wastes, nuclear fusion || Miller chapter 15 ||  ||


 * Notes**


 * Review Questions**

Articles on Nonrenewable Resources

 * All nonrenewable fossil fuels**

Oil
Keystone XL Pipline Keystone Pipeline Controversy

Natural Gas
Frack wastewater pollutes rivers [|Fracking for Natural Gas] [|The Pickens Plan] [|New concerns about mining natural gas in the United States]

Coal
[|coal ash spill]

Nuclear
Nuclear Fallout Nuclear Aftershocks [|Meltdown at Three Mile Island] [|Chernobyl, CBS] [|Radiation Poisening]