EGEE 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: European Grid Infrastructure
23 Aug 2016
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Plans to reduce pollution to 75% below 1990 levels by 2020. Believes we can fuel the future without any new plants. Utility companies will spend million on energy efficiency in customer buildings. Bipartisan effort by former governor (mitt romney former republican mass. 1 ad there are about 300 million people, and all the farmland, fish, whales, and forests we could ever need. 1650 there are about 500 million people and a whole new world. 1900 there are 1,650 million people and industrialized civilization is going to let us live like royalty. By recovering resources embedded in existing goods (recycling) By using resources created in the past (fossil fuels) Borrowing resources from the future (saw up oil trees, burn the whales, put houses on all the farmland) Usa energy use 2015 = 97,500,000,000,000,000 btus. 210,000 calories/day = 84 people using 2500 calories/day.
