GEOG306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tidal Power, Industrial Revolution, Intermittency

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG306
• Professor: Johanna Wandel

Document Summary

Introduction to mitigation: climate mitigation is about finding ways to try and prevent climate change from happening; the. If a region or nation ran out of energy, all these core functions would no longer work it is easy to imagine the ensuing chaos (and associated high costs). Policy makers therefore prioritize security of energy supply: affordability: everyone in society needs to have access to energy, but not everyone has the same ability to pay for it. Japan, germany: size of installed capacity per capita: iceland, denmark, sweden/germany, spain/finland. Investment in solar photovoltaic (pv) capacity increased steadily over the past decade. The countries with the largest installed capacity are: china, japan, germany, us and italy. Intermittency: a key issue with renewable energy sources is that supply is intermittent, making it less of a predictable energy source than fossil fuel. Intermittency means that the primary source of energy (such as wind or heat from the sun) cannot not be stored.