GEO 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Volatile Organic Compound, Solar Thermal Energy, Air Filter
10 Nov 2017
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Lecture 7: energy; air pollution; climate change impacts: four laws of ecology, everything is connected to everything else, no free lunch, everything has to go somewhere, nature knows best. Outline: energy use, air pollution, climate change impacts. Non-renewable energy: conventional, petroleum, natural gas, coal, nuclear, unconventional. U. s. energy consumption history: age of wood, age of coal, age of oil, hydroelectric is not a, globally, fossil fuels account for roughly 80% energy (commercial) World energy production: oil and coral over 60, top three: oil, coal and natural gas, biomass, nuclear 6. 3, hydro 2. 2, new. World energy resources: energy use related to, prosperity, quality of life, more energy used: more gnp per capita, but switzerland, japan, denmark, germany have achieved high gnp using less energy than usa, you make money you spend it. If you have the money you spend it. There are two major reasons: war, killing is the because of oil (middle eastern wars) about who controls the market.
