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Water
Water supplies are heated up outside power stations affecting
the immediate ecosystems.
The
major pollution to water from the combustion of fossil fuels
is via air as acid rain.
More about fossil fuels
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The
advantages of continuing use of fossil fuels include:
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the
majority of power plants, industrial processes and most
energy using appliances are currently designed around
fossil fuels.
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Fossil
fuels are relatively compact in terms of the energy produced
by volume and they are relatively easy to transport.
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The
technology to exploit other fuel sources is not yet well
developed
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