5. Recourses 2 For decades, Power Planet have specialized in fossil fuels. We provided oil for gasoline, and natural gas for home heating. However, prices of petroleum increase…

5. Recourses 2 For decades, Power Planet have specialized in fossil fuels. We provided oil for gasoline, and natural gas for home heating. However, prices of petroleum increase almost daily. Furthermore, supplies are limited. We also worry about the environmental impact burning coal for electricity. We are now exploring other options to serve our customers. Power Planet recently began mining operations for uranium. We hope to supply nuclear power plants within ten years. We are also researching potential resources that may be available in the future. Stock resources like hydrogen are an important area of exploration Production is not profitable yet, but we are investing in further study. We plan to close our coal mines within twenty years. But we don’t want to waste our mining expertise. Instead, we will focus on non-energy resources. We plan to mine metallic mineral resources like id We will also explore nonmetallic mineral resources like salt. Ex.4 Fill in the blanks with the correct words and phrases from the word bank. stock resources / petroleum/ hydrogen/ metallic mineral resources/ uranium/ coal 1 The company mined for _______________ like aluminum and copper. 2 Some fuels are ___________________ because they are too expensive to produce. 3 ________________ is an abundant fossil fuel, but it releases large amounts of carbon gas. 4Most automobiles and aircrafts run on fuel from _____________________ . 5The company enriches_______________ for nuclear power. 6 Scientists are researching how to extract ____________ from water. Ex.5 Complete the conversation. Give us the money/ start using it/ a fossil fuel/ the good news/ stock resource/ reduce emission Scientist 1: Okay. Well have to look at ways to 1 ___________ . What else did they say? Scientist 2: Well, 2 __________ ____________ ____________ is that they took myadvice about hydrogen. Scientist 1: That's great! So we're going to 3 _____________ ____________ ______________ ? Scientist 2: Not exactly. Hydrogen is still a 4______________ _______________ .The technology isn't very effective yet. Scientist 1: Oh, right. I guess you still need 5_______________ ____________ _____________ to produce hydrogen. Scientist 2: Exactly. But the board will 6 _______________ ___________ ___________ ____________ to explore it. Ex.6 Use the webpage and the conversation to fill out the scientist's recommendation. To the Board of Directors: I do not recommend using _____________________ as an energy source because ___________________ _________________________________________ . I do recommend researching ___________________ Because ___________________________________ _________________________________________ .