PHYS 3080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Cancer Society, Acer Saccharum, Flue Gas
22 Jun 2016
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By the end of this unit, you should be able to: Unit 3: health and environmental impacts of fossil fuels. Explain that the extraction, refinement and transport of fossil fuels is far from accident-free. Explain that the poor efficiency with which we convert fossil fuels to electrical energy transfer of necessity, large amount of heat to water bodies. List which materials pollute our atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel burning. Quantify the continuing shortening of human life spans through pulmonary and heart disease caused by air pollution. Describe that some progress has been made on air pollution in north america, especially via the us-canada air. In the case of oil and gas wells, the drilling and extraction of the fuels produces local disruptions in ecosystems - however typically in most areas, the impact is rather minor comparable to that of any small industry.
