ENGIN-110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Industrial Ecology, Renewable Energy, Hydroelectricity
16 Dec 2020
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Almost all potential sites have already been used. Engineers apply their skills to solve problems, subject to competing constraints: Functionality and responsiveness to changing user needs. Conservation emphasize efficient development and use of natural resources. Preservation preserve natural areas in their natural state and close them to development. Protection focus on pollution control and dangers to human health. Survival be concerned with global problems and sustainability. Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. A strategy for environmental protection: the solution to pollution is reducing. Industrial ecology approach: industrial ecology requires that an industrial system be viewed not in isolation from its surrounding system, but in concert with them. It is a systems view in which one seeks to optimize the total materials cycle from virgin material, to finished material, to component, to product, to waste product and to ultimate disposal.
