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Energy Source Distribution Energy has become one of the Petroleum Natural Gas Coal Nuclear Energy Biomass Hydro Wind Geothermal Solar Energy

most essential aspects in everyday life. The amount of energy sources we have come up with just to meet our necessities are a testament to how important it has become. In today's age,

we have been using fossil fuels as a main source of energy to power a variety of things from factories, to cars and other modes of transportation. Aside from that, we need sources of energy for many other aspects that fossil fuels don't always satisfy, however fossil fuels have been the majority of our energy consumption for a while. Fossil fuels can be broken down into 3 categories which are petroleum, natural gas and coal. Together, they provide up to 83 percent of our total energy which is basically all of it, and after that comes nuclear energy (9.5%), then biomass (5%), then hydro (4%), then winds (.8%), then geothermal (.5%), then solar energy (.2%). (https://barryonenergy.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/just-energy-facts-–-sourceconsumption-and-waste/Just Energy Facts- Source Consumption and Waste By: Barry Stevens)

Energy Needs

We can also take a look at our energy Electrical Energy consumption needs, such as electrical Transportation Industrial generation. In this case electrical generation Residental Commercial

takes 36% of our energy consumption, followed by transportation (26%)

consumption, then comes industrial (20.8%), then residential (10.2%), then commercial (7%).

(https://barryonenergy.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/just-energy-facts-–-source-consumption-andwaste/Just Energy Facts- Source Consumption and Waste By: Barry Stevens) It's difficult to find a clear solution but to combat the harmful gases one would obviously try to reduce fossil fuels. It seems that is hard to do at the time considering the strong contribution to our energy consumption it makes. It seems like the two main things that consume fossil fuel energy are transportation and industrial, so to combat this we could make innovations in both aspects and making it less necessary for the extraction of fossil fuels. This isn't an easy task, because we have to look at cars as a whole and see how this can be achieved with perhaps even a new mode of transportation. It's also a matter of seeing the other sources of energy and what they can do to decrease the necessity of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels can't stop being used anytime soon, so why don't we just try to minimize its use and take advantage of what it has to offer while we can. We should try to make it so that the energy resource percentages are equal rather than strongly skewed so we can take advantage of each energy source in totality, and then try to push for a completely green form of energy....