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Can You Spell Sub-Bituminous Coal?

The first unit of this winter term was very interesting in the Fuel class for STEAM. We did a lot of talking about energy and different types of fuel. Some of these include the known fossil fuels, natural gas, oil, coal, and also renewable sources of energy like solar and wind. We also watched the documentary Pump which is about people having a choice at the gas pump and being able to decide what fuel they should use for their car. In this unit we talked to someone from Nicor Gas where we found some extra opinion on the use of natural gases and the other fuels we use today. This unit largely talked about fossil fuels and how we use them in our daily lives without even realizing it. We might be getting our power in our home from a coal plant and our car uses gas. Even though we may fill up our cars about once every couple weeks we may not actually think about what is happening somewhere that is allowing us to have this gas. In this unit we also did a lot of graphing and predictions for consumption and production levels of resources in the future. For this Action Project we had to pick a fossil fuel and create a slideshow talking about that fuel. We also had to include two graphs talking about the consumption of our resource from 2005 to 2015. One graph had to be about the United States and the other from a country of our choice. The fuel that I chose was sub-bituminous coal and the additional country was Germany. The slideshow is down below.



I enjoyed learning about more non-renewable resources and different types of fuels. I also like working on this AP and I am excited for the Field Experiences that we have in the future such as Tesla. I think the next unit in this class will be very interesting and I am ready to learn more. I hope the slideshow was okay and if your read it you liked it. I hope this presentation can help people learn more about fossil fuels and other fuels in the future. Thank you for reading.
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