Question

create a pictorial representation of the history of fossil fuels​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Fossil fuels

• Fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) have, and continue to, play a dominant role in global energy systems.
• Fossil energy was a fundamental driver of the Industrial Revolution, and the technological, social, economic and development progress which has followed.
• Energy has played a strongly positive role in global change.
• However, fossil fuels also have negative impacts, being the dominant source of local air pollution and emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.
• This entry presents the long-run and recent perspectives on coal, oil and gas - global and national production, consumption, reserves, prices and their consequences.

Answer 2

The burning of coal to generate electricity is a relative newcomer in the long history of this fossil fuel. It was in the 1880s when coal was first used to generate electricity for homes and factories. By 1961, coal had become the major fuel used to generate electricity in the United States.