Energy sources that are in limited supply are called?

Answer 1

Yes it is a finite resource, fossil fuels will eventually run out if they continue to be used. Take oil, for example: oil comes from compressed plants and animals sandwiched in between impervious rock layers, and takes great heat and pressure to form. The world is consuming huge volumes of it, as if there is no tomorrow, yet we have already passed "Peak Oil" and no big new oil-fields have been found. Existing oil fields will become totally exhausted and the world will regress back to the 19th century (no cars, aeroplanes, plastics etc). Take coal: coal comes from compressed plants and animals in pervious rock layers. Unlike oil, coal will not run out worldwide, but its use will be reduced because of concerns about pollution, greenhouse gases, carbon sequestration, and the environment. Take uranium: although technically uranium itself is not a "fossil fuel" because it is not created from fossils, it is yet another buried fuel that is not being formed now. (Indeed, because of radioactive decay into other elements there is actually an ever-decreasing amount of uranium in the world.) For the making nuclear of fuel, only isotopes of Uranium can be used [I think it is the isotope U235 being converted into U238, but correct me if I am wrong], and uranium enrichment plants and nuclear power plants are constructed using equipment and processes only made possible with high-energy-use construction using oil or coal for their power source (for example, factories, foundries for steel and aluminium, computers). What this means is that although Uranium is not itself a primary fossil fuel, it is a secondary or even tertiary fossil fuel because it is dependent on coal and oil to create the products and processes to enable it to be used at all. Uranium is useless without fossil fuels.

It is not just fossil fuel that is finite: all fuel is finite. Indeed, the Laws Entropy (that everything is deteriorating and slowing down to Zero Point Energy) prove that , not just fossil fuel, not just every resource, but every single thing is finite and will end.

Answer 2

According to the physics idiots, any energy that will produce heat is finite, however another theory suggests dark matter is energy and is infinite because it is responsible for the expansion of universe. I call this the dumb and dumber! If energy in the form of heat is always lost on any sort of energy transfer/conversion then how is it possible there was ever a big bang, energy would of died out long time ago, if not then the big bang needed so much energy that according to idiots 13 billion years ago a fire cracker, a giant firecracker popped with such a fury that 13 billion years later its still perpetuating. They have no clue, and every other theory contradicts another. There are no phenomenon or invisible things doing anything. Dark matter is energy, are you kidding, it sounds like religion, physicists pick and choose which theory serves their purpose at that moment for whatever reason, . I know one thing nothing is nothing and will always be nothing!

My theory,
There is one form of energy responsible for all other energy, this is vacuum, without it there would be no other form of energy and it is not infinite, eventually the vacuum will not be able to support the mass of the universe and it will collapse in a fraction of a second, at the moment of collapse all the galaxies and all matter throughout the universe will be immediately at the speed of 300,000 meters per second. which will vaporize every element accept for number one which is hydrogen and then it will all start over.

by:
electronsrule

Answer 3

Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas). There is a limited amount of these on the earth, and as they are not renewable, they are gradually running out. This is one reason why changing to renewable energy (sun, wind, waves, etc) is very important.

Answer 4

Unfortunately none is known. All things come to an end. But who knows what more billions of years of technology will bring.

Answer 5

Nonrenewable resources, like fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).

Answer 6

Yes , energy in the universe is limited and at the same time cannot be destroyed .

Answer 7

''Non-Renewable Resources''

Answer 8

All energy sources are finite.