GEOG 3EE3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Natural-Gas Processing, Renewable Energy, Gulf War
6 Mar 2017
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Lecture 2 energy use and resources: what is an energy system? looking at the entire flow of energy. When looking at the energy system you are looking at the whole picture. How it is transformed, transported, technologies involved, how it can be managed and stored, etc. Energy: the capacity to do work (j = joule) 1960s coal was the dominant fossil fuels: coal policies were important how to burn coal, etc. Price shock made governments think of how they handle energy policies and looking at it on a broader spectrum: the present global system. Since 1850, growth in world primary energy consumption has: paralleled the growth in world population and gdp.
