GGR333H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Embodied Energy

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6 May 2018

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WEEK 3: ENERGY USAGE

News and Current Events

• Oil (tar) sands full of 340billion gallons of toxic sludge spur fears of environmental

catastrophe

• Needs a large amount of processing

• Metabolic relationship with Earth

• Trump and oil could hit $80/barrel. Going up and down with remarkable speed.

Natural gas:

• Supply, demand and constraints (i.e. commerce = moving gas to the market)

• Produce more than they can ship out

• Price matters because it determines if wells are shut or open

• Prospect of shale wave (shale oil)

• Country wide carbon price - mix and match with cap and trade?

• Huge oil spill left after burning tanker sinks in China

• China’s ban on imported plastic (taking in garbage)

• Affects UK waste recycling, producing a lot on their own

• China buying new plastic from petroleum companies

• Micro-plastic: present in almost every water and food source around the world

Energy Systems and Sustainability and Usage

Commodities

Figure 3.1: primary, delivered and useful energy

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