cooking on your LPG stove; you are contributing to the increasing demands of oil in India? Most of you would be thinking ‘so what?’ Well‚ here is some data. India’s crude oil import bill increased more than 40 percent to $68 billion in 2007-08 following a consistent rise in global crude prices. According to data released by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas‚ India imported 121.672 million tons of crude oil for $67.988 billion in 2007-08‚ as opposed to 111.502 million tons imported
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Oil Sands Oil sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. They are loose sand or partially consolidated sandstone that contains natural mixtures of clay and sand‚ saturated with a viscous form of petroleum. Natural petroleum deposits are reported in many countries‚ but are found in extremely large quantities in Canada; 70.8% of the globally estimated oil sand reserves are in Canada. Most of the oil sands of Canada are located in northern Alberta. They
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Oil And Gas Conservation Oil and gas conservation effects your daily life in several ways: 1) As you conserve you own consumption of oil and gas‚ your fuel bills are reduced 2) Oil and gas conservation tends to reduce demand for oil and gas and this‚ in turn‚ tends to lower the price of fuels and products made from oil and gas (like plastics) to the consumer. 3) Conservation of oil and gas usually also means less burning of them as fuels‚ which‚ in turn reduces the amount of pollutants
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Essay: Role of youth in promoting oil conservation Youths are the people who are most flexible and able to learn. Young people can learn habits that are less dependent on fuel than the habits we older people have. Young people‚ then‚ can grow up with better habits and make conservation of oil something that is just normal for everyone. This is why youth has a major role in promoting oil conservation. The first rule of fuel conservation would be to travel judiciously and curtail wasteful driving
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Q: 6 Under which of the following conditions are you most likely to fall sick? (a) When you are taking examinations. (b) When you have travelled by bus and train for two days. (c) When your friend is suffering from measles. Why? Answer I will be most likely to fall sick when my friend is suffering from measles. This is because in this condition‚ I will visit my friend and will be likely to get infected with measles. Measeles is an infectious as well as an air-borne disease. When
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"CHILD IS THE FATHER OF MAN" the famous lines by William Wordworth. It symbolizes the need of children in building a healthy nation and society. Childhood is the first stage after infancy. It is the formative period in men’s life. For their minds are very soft‚ receptive and plastic at this tender age. Children’s mind is like potter’s clay. It has to be shaped in a right manner. A child normally has to enjoy its childhood days with its parents‚ teachers‚ friends‚ etc. It is the age where fine and
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Conservation and Environmental Protection in the UAE Introduction – The world is on global village not just through connectivity but also in the fact that we all share this earth and must work at saving and preserving its natural resources not just for us but also for our children. That’s why conservation and environmental protection has always been an essential part of the efforts to make the UAE the country it needs to be. To understand how to protect the land and environment‚ we must understand
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SOURCES OF ENERGY Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Energy can only be converted from one form to another. E.g. if we drop a plate from a height‚ the potential energy of the plate gets converted mostly to sound energy when it hits the ground‚ chemical energy in the wax is converted to heat energy & light energy on burning. The total energy during a physical or chemical process remains the same. In the above examples‚ energy in the usable form is dissipated to the surroundings in less
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The Meaning of Conservation Proper use of resources and strict compliance with the rules on conservation are the keys to protecting and conserving our limited resources. Conservation is the act of using and protecting resources properly. Catching animals‚ throwing garbage‚ and using and harnessing the different resources should all adhere to the proper way of conservation. Importance to Living Things. Conservation is very important to all living things. The environment where
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towers of Babylon; there were oil pits near Ardericca (near Babylon)‚ and a pitch spring on Zacynthus.[32] Great quantities of it were found on the banks of the river Issus‚ one of the tributaries of the Euphrates. Ancient Persian tablets indicate the medicinal and lighting uses of petroleum in the upper levels of their society. In the 1850s‚ the process to distill kerosene from petroleum was invented by Ignacy Łukasiewicz‚ providing a cheaper alternative to whale oil. The demand for the petroleum
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