GGR333H5 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Fossil Fuel, Coal, Turbine
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Power: the rate of doing work, the rate at which energy is converted from one form to another: main unit = watt (w) = 1 joule/second. Energy policy: rules on how energy is produced, traded and consumed. Energy system: a set of interconnected entities that constitute an integrated whole: can be used to describe economy (production, trade, and consumption of energy) Figure 1. 1 in textbook: timeline of different current events. Draws attention to how interconnected energy is with the market and events over the years (i. e. gulf war) Renewable energy sources from biophysical environment: how are you dependent on the environment? air, food, etc, some of the things we depend on can become susceptible to harm. Fossil fuels: composed of mainly carbon and hydrogen and thus sometimes called hydrocarbons. Nuclear energy: generated from changes to nuclei of atoms - nuclear fission - of very heavy isotopes. Nuclear fusion: the fusion of two nuclei, uncontrolled energy release, hydrogen bomb.
