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Natural gas is odorless and colorless fossil fuel that has been a resource that people use in their daily lives of living. It has become an important item to have in our homes to heat, cook and in some homes, electricity.
It is unlike the other fossil fuels, because it is a clean burning and there isn’t much byproducts induced in the air to that are harmful. Natural gas is hydrocarbon gases mixed into a combustible form. It is mostly methane, but can include pentane, propane, butane and ethane.
Fossil fuels are found underground and in essence it is the remains of micro organisms, plants and animals millions of years ago. These once living organisms become organic matter and become compressed under all the soil and sediment under high pressure, for a long period of time. This is called thermogenic methane. The compression with higher temperatures below the earth’s surface breaks the organic matters carbon bonds. At higher temperatures under the earths crest you will find natural gas, shallower and cooler temperature is oil. The deeper you get in the ground, over 2 miles, you can find pure methane. There are other ways that methane is formed, but is all contained under the earths surface.
Before Natural gas can be used as a fuel it has a process it has to go through to get refined. The process consists of removing the other materials, except the methane.
Early civilians did not understand what natural gas was. When a storm would come and lightening would strike and ignited the natural gas that was seeping from under the ground and would create a fire. Many were superstitious of where these flames came from. It wasn’t until the Chinese discovered they could use these flames to boil sea water to separate the salt to make the water drinkable. They built pipelines from bamboo shoots that transported the gas. The first country to use natural gas from coal to light homes and streetlights was Britain. The first American nater gas company was the Fredonia Gas Light Company. The founder was William Hart. He is known as the “father of natural gas”. He dug the first well of natural gas in Fredonia, New York in 1821.
As you can see natural gas was discovered along time ago. With technology increasing and more people relying on the natural resource, it has become important in our lives. The uses of natural gas common in today homes consists of electricity, heating, cooling, boilers, portable grills, furnaces, and water heaters, Some vehicles can use natural gas as a cleaner alternative than gasoline.




Jason Grace
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33100 Paderborn
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