ECOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Waste Hierarchy

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Ecology
• Course: ECOL 1000
• Professor: J Vaun Mc Arthur

Document Summary

Coal: us = 3,000 years; china = 300 years. Oil and natural gas: us & china = 25 years. Burning fossil fuel = 6 billion tons of co2/yr into the atmosphere. 1 ton of co2 per person per year. Use certain carbon wedges to create efficiency and reduce global warming (natural gas, wind mills, etc. ); costly but longer we wait, higher the cost. Addressing global warming will not cause economic chaos. More jobs, better products, more profit, better efficiency. Us energy sources: oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric (all but hydroelectric are nonrenewable and make up 95%) Use radioactive glass beads which will not flow into groundwater, cannot be concentrated into weapons-grade material. Variation of temperature is getting smaller but temperature is still rising. Kudzo man turns the kudzo into moonshine (1 acre = 10 gallons); call it kudzunol to use for fuel.