GEO 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: World Energy Consumption, Passive Solar Building Design, Alternative Energy
5 Dec 2016
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Oecd stands for organizations for economic cooperation and development. Canadas energy future- oil production going to continue to go up, Wind energy, hydroelectric, solar, tidal, geothermal all clean. Solar photovoltaics, social thermal power, passive solar air and water heating, wind, hydropower, biomass, ocean energy, geothermal, waste to energy. Nuclear power stations can produce large amounts of energy from small amounts of nuclear fuel. (radioactive materials naturally release heat. Waste materials stay radioactive for thousands of years. There have been some disastrous accidents at nuclear power station which have affect all living things in the area. The atmosphere as an unlimited resource and outside of economic system. Use of air for free waste disposal has exceeded the natural services ability to restore it. Urban areas are the first to exhibit signs of stress. Air quality problems and atmosphere change are now at global scale. Epa required to control 188 hazardous air pollutants. Defined by clean air act(caa) amendments of 190.
