https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Fossil_fuelFossil fuel - Revision history2026-06-02T07:09:14ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.17.4https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Fossil_fuel&diff=207574&oldid=prevEditor at 10:17, 30 June 20212021-06-30T10:17:06Z<p></p>
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</table>Editorhttps://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Fossil_fuel&diff=190831&oldid=prevEditor at 13:21, 21 January 20212021-01-21T13:21:24Z<p></p>
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</table>Editorhttps://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Fossil_fuel&diff=187131&oldid=prevDesigning Buildings at 07:53, 22 December 20202020-12-22T07:53:29Z<p></p>
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</table>Designing Buildingshttps://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Fossil_fuel&diff=153269&oldid=prevDesigning Buildings at 09:23, 7 February 20202020-02-07T09:23:30Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide (and other pollutants) which is a greenhouse gas and so contributes to climate change.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide (and other pollutants) which is a greenhouse gas and so contributes to climate change.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Designing Buildingshttps://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Fossil_fuel&diff=132134&oldid=prevEditor at 12:16, 4 April 20192019-04-04T12:16:30Z<p></p>
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</table>Editorhttps://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Fossil_fuel&diff=128010&oldid=prevEditor at 16:28, 15 February 20192019-02-15T16:28:29Z<p></p>
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</table>Editorhttps://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Fossil_fuel&diff=121492&oldid=prevDesigning Buildings at 15:22, 28 November 20182018-11-28T15:22:37Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Fossil fuels are types of non-renewable fuels formed by over millions of years by the anaerobic decomposition of organisms buried <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">underneath </del>soil and rock. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fossil fuels, contain energy that originated </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">photosynthesis</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Fossil fuels are types of non-renewable fuels formed by over millions of years by the anaerobic decomposition of organisms buried <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">beneath or within </ins>soil and rock. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">They are considered to be non-renewable because the rate at which they are currently consumed is far </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">excess of the rate at which they are naturally replaced, and so they are being rapidly depleted</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">All fossil </del>fuels can be burnt in air, or oxygen, to provide heat, which can be used directly, or converted into energy such as electricity. The Industrial Revolution drastically increased the consumption of fossil fuels to the contemporaneous point where levels are widely considered to be unsustainable, hence the drive for large-scale up-take of renewable energy sources.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fossil </ins>fuels<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, contain energy that originated in photosynthesis. They </ins>can be burnt in air, or oxygen, to provide heat, which can be used directly, or converted into energy such as electricity. The Industrial Revolution drastically increased the consumption of fossil fuels to the contemporaneous point where levels are widely considered to be unsustainable, hence the drive for large-scale up-take of renewable energy sources.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Types of fossil fuel extraction, such as shale gas, have intensified the debate over whether or not modern and intensive methods should be employed for the further exploitation of non-renewable energy sources.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Types of fossil fuel extraction, such as shale gas, have intensified the debate over whether or not modern and intensive methods should be employed for the further exploitation of non-renewable energy sources.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In general, a fossil fuel is a type </del>of non-renewable <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fuel that is </del>formed by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">natural processes </del>over millions of years<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Anaerobic </del>decomposition of organisms buried underneath soil and rock <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is the process that forms fossil </del>fuels, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">containing </del>energy that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">originates </del>in photosynthesis <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that took place many years previously</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fossil fuels are types </ins>of non-renewable <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fuels </ins>formed by over millions of years <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by the anaerobic </ins>decomposition of organisms buried underneath soil and rock<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Fossil </ins>fuels, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">contain </ins>energy that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">originated </ins>in photosynthesis.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Fossil fuels include <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the following</del>:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Fossil fuels include:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>All fossil fuels <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are </del>burnt in air, or oxygen, to provide heat which can <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">then </del>be used <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as </del>energy. The Industrial Revolution drastically increased the consumption of fossil fuels to the contemporaneous point where <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">continuing </del>levels are widely considered to be unsustainable, hence the drive for large-scale up-take of renewable energy sources. Types of fossil fuel extraction, such as shale gas, have intensified the debate over whether or not modern and intensive methods should be employed for the further exploitation of non-renewable energy sources.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>All fossil fuels <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">can be </ins>burnt in air, or oxygen, to provide heat<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>which can be used <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">directly, or converted into </ins>energy <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">such as electricity</ins>. The Industrial Revolution drastically increased the consumption of fossil fuels to the contemporaneous point where levels are widely considered to be unsustainable, hence the drive for large-scale up-take of renewable energy sources.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide (and other pollutants) which is a greenhouse gas and so contributes to climate change</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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