Fossil fuels

• What is fossil fuels

Over 650 millions of years different types of fossil fuels are formed as organisms.Fossil fuels contain high percentages of carbon and include coal, petroleum, and natural gas.

• Different types of fossil fuels

Fossil energy sources, including oil, coal and natural gas, are non-renewable resources that formed when prehistoric plants and animals died and were gradually buried by layers of rock. Over millions of years, different types of fossil fuels formed depending on what combination of organic matter was present, how long it was buried and what temperature and pressure conditions existed as time passed.

• Electric Fossil fuel

Over 65% of the world's electrical energy used today is generated by steam turbine generators burning fossil fuels as their source of energy and large scale fossil fuelled plants provide most of the world's base load generating capacity.