Saudi Arabiaand UK energy

By Daniel Gilmour

Energy ProductionSaudi Arabia mainly uses oil, it has the

biggest oil reserves in the world, so it makes sense for that to be its primary source of power. They produces 6,258 TWh in a year

The UK uses an array of power sources (from 2008) fossil fuels accounted of 77 % of electricity. Nuclear is 14% and 5% is renewable sources and they produced 34,410GWh. So for a country trying to be fuel efficient a very low amount of the countries power is clean.

Energy Consumption In the UK in 2008, total electricity

consumed was 9.85 exajoules (around 3Wh).

Saudi Arabia only use 1707TWh in a year and export 4,551TWh in a year

Power possibilitiesPositives Negatives Best for…

Solar Easy set up and can be used on top of a lot of buildings. does not produce pollution

Need a lot of hours in a day consistently, only collects energy in the day and they’re quite bulky.

Saudi Arabia. And countries with a lot of sunshine all year and long days.

Wind Windy day and night. does not produce pollution

Some people think the turbines are ugly. They are also expensive. Can be too windy and break the turbines

U.K. It is windy through most of the year

Water Naturally occurs and the water is not disturbed. fuel" is free. does not produce pollution

You need somewhere with hills or mountains, can be floods and droughts .

U.K. Saudi Arabia is mountainous but it is hot so there will be draughts

Geothermal It will not run out. can be used for cooling and heating homes. Does not produce pollution.

Has to be on a fault-line for most efficiency and ease

Saudi Arabia. It is surrounded by the Arabic plate so they can easily get to plates to drill down to the warmer depth of the Earth

biomass can be used for cooling and heating homes. Easily grown on farms. Biomass waste can help in reducing disposal costs

Farmers might discard food and focus on the bio crops leading to a lack of food. Biofuels cause some pollution.

UK. There is a lot of fertile land in the UK where as it is a lot of dessert in Saudi Arabia.

nuclear Most energy for the least fuel. Less fuel means less waste. No CO2 produced. Could produce Hydrogen as well as electricity. Uranium is common

High cost to build . fear of all things nuclear. Accidents are rare but severe.

Both it makes no difference but they’re often close to the coast to get a steady supply of water

Fossil fuel Fossil fuels are very easy to find. Power stations that make use of fossil fuel can be constructed in almost any location.

they give off a lot of carbon dioxide. creates acid rain. Getting less and less and generally harder to find

Saudi Arabia. They have large amounts of oil and a lot still being collected today.

For the future In the future Saudi Arabia could move to solar power due

to its longer days and amount of sun throughout the year. It could also use nuclear power which the country currently has none. It’s current primary power source (oil) will run out eventually.

In the UK wind power is good because it’s just the right speed of wind and water power is a good because there’s a lot of streams flowing through hills allowing for ease of set up. Also in the summer it wont evaporate and the stream go dry but also in the winter it wont freeze.