EARTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Binding Energy, Smog, Alpha Decay
16 Mar 2018
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Oil, ng, and coal make up 80% of our electricity generation. Currently, nuclear accounts for 10% of our electricity generation. One of illinois" primary sources of energy is nuclear. Amount of co2 emitted by hydrocarbons: coal > gasoline > ng. Renewable energy is growing rapidly > now covers about 10% of energy consumption. Almost 10% of electricity comes from nuclear power. There is a lot of oil and gas left in the earth. Burning 1t barrels of oil adds 50 ppm co2 to the atmosphere. Burning 1t barrels of coal adds 330 ppm co2 to atmosphere. A lot of coal left in the earth - at least 1t tons of it. We can account for nearly all the rise in co2 from combustion of oil and coal (and most re. Both use natural resource from earth (uranium vs. coal), both use that resource to which boils water, creating high-p steam to turn a turbine, generator, electricity.
