Is named fuel to any material that is plausible to release energy once it oxidizes violently and with release of heat. Normally, fuel will release energy from its potential state to a usable state, either directly or mechanically, producing waste heat. In other words, fuels are substances that can be burned or that tend to burn.
Material capable of releasing great energy and that burns easily
The most salient and distinctive feature of fuel is that it burns extremely easily and quickly, that is, if someone lights a fire near them, in an irresponsible way of course, it is possible that the fire spreads magnificently in a few seconds.
There are different types of fuels ...
The solid fuels, among which stand out the coal, peat and wood, is a type of fuel whose components are solid. Coal, for example, is used to heat water, to move machinery, or to produce heat for heating purposes. Peat and wood are also widely used in the latter sense: for domestic and industrial heating.
For their part, fluid fuels are mostly used at the behest of internal combustion engines, highlighting the diesel, kerosene, gasoline or naphtha.
Fluid fuels, including diesel and gasoline, are undoubtedly the most valued by human beings since it is thanks to them that the mobilization of vehicular transport, trucks, buses, vans, cars, airplanes is possible.
Without these, none of these means of transportation could function.
By case it is that these fuels could be said that they move the economy and are one of the development factors of the peoples.
Thanks to them, food transporters can transport them to the gondolas of supermarkets and warehouses, people can travel to their jobs, among others.
Pollution
When addressing this issue, we cannot ignore the residues that fuels cause in the oxidation and release of energy, and that generates the appearance of carbon dioxide, a highly polluting substance that contributes directly to what we know as the greenhouse effect. .
It is so named because the effect is similar to what happens in a greenhouse when the temperature exceeds current levels.
Although this state of affairs is produced by the joint action of various components of our atmosphere, it has been increased in recent times by the undisciplined and irresponsible action of human beings with the increase in the emission and production of carbon dioxide. carbon and other gases.
In addition to the pollution on the planet, the warming that these uncontrollable gases generate has produced an incredible climate change that is bringing dire consequences for a large part of the territories that make up this world, such as floods, and the other side, the desertification of other parts due to the absence of rain, among others.
Another fuel is the so-called fossil fuel, which is one that has been formed millions of years ago on the planet from the organic remains of dead plants and animals. The aforementioned remains were deposited in the waters, which were then covered by sediments and after thousands of years the famous chemical reactions took place that transformed such remains into coal, gas and oil, fossil fuels.
And the biofuels are those substances that come from the plant kingdom and that due to their characteristics can be used as fuel, directly, or after undergoing a modification in its original substance by chemical means. Among the most common are: biogas, bioalcohol and biodiesel.
Meanwhile, in the case of humans, the main fuel is materialized in the carbohydrates, lipids and proteins that each one ingests through foods rich in these issues. This type of fuel will be the one that will provide the necessary energy to the individual to move their muscles, to regenerate tissues, among other actions.
So it is very common to hear people say that this or that food is the fuel they need to be active and energetic.
