Biology 2483A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Liquefied Natural Gas, Proven Reserves, Renewable Energy

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Scale it is not the residential customers, it is the industrial sector. Use of energy in canada by sector: transportation (38%), industrial (31%), residential (15%), commercial (13%), agriculture (3%) Majority of residential used for heating (31%), cooling (12%), water heating (12%) Even if you do reduce personal use, in the end it won"t matter because on the larger. Energy consumption in canada majority of the energy we use comes from oil (32%), 24% from natural gas and about the same from hydroelectric power (renewable), much less from coal (10%), nuclear is about 7% Other renewables outside of hydroelectric is only about 1% of energy. We mine a lot of uranium, but only a small portion used for generation of electric power, most is for export. About half of natural gas exported, the rest for electric power, majority industrial, residential. Biomass only 1%, whatever we produce we consume. We also import and export some of that oil smaller quantities.

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Explain why you agree or disagree with the following proposals made by various energy analysts:

1)We should eliminate government subsidies for all energy alternatives so that all energy providers can compete in a true free-market system.

2)We should phase out all government tax breaks and other subsidies for conventional fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, and coal), synthetic natural gas and oil, and nuclear power (fission and fusion). We should replace them with subsidies and tax breaks for improving energy efficiency and developing solar, wind, geothermal, hydrogen, and biomass energy alternatives.

3)We should leave development of solar, wind, and hydrogen energy to private enterprise, and it should receive little or no help from the federal government, but nuclear energy and fossil fuels should continue to receive large federal government subsidies.

4)We should place a heavy federal tax on gasoline and imported oil to help reduce the waste and consumption of crude oil resources and to encourage use of other alternatives.

5)We should find and develop more domestic supplies of crude oil and increase our dependence on coal.

Create an argumentative essay that describes your personal view on these issues. Cite three reliable sources to justify your personal view.

If considering only electricity production,nuclear energy produces____

A) no CO2

B) about the same amount of CO2 as fossil fuels

C) significantly more CO2 than fossil fuels

D) significantly less CO2 than fossil fuels, but a measurableamount

As of today, high level nuclear waste in the US is stored_____

A) at Yucca Mountain

B) at each reactor site

C) on the moon

D) in the ocean

The majority of the uranium used for electricity productioncomes from_____

A) underground mines

B) surface mines

C) decommissioned nuclear weapons

D) the moons of Uranus

Most of the nuclear energy used in the U.S. is used for ____

A) transportation fuel

B) public water heating

C) electricity production

D) bombardment of Afghanistan

A spent nuclear fuel rod is ____

A) no longer radioactive, but still dangerous

B) no longer radioactive and no longer dangerous

C) no longer able to produce electricity, but still radioactive

Electricity is generated in a nuclear power plant because___

A) A nuclear reaction of uranium generates electricity directly

B) Uranium is burned which boils water and the steam turns aturbine

C) A nuclear reaction of uranium generates heat which boils waterand the steam turns a turbine

D) Radiation released from uranium is converted into electricity bya centrifuge

Enrichment of uranium is necessary____

A) only for construction of atomic weapons

B) in order to make the uranium safe to transport from the minesite

C) only for fusion nuclear reactors

D) for any commercial or military application of nuclear energy

A uranium fission reaction occurs when____

A) uranium is placed in boiling water

B) uranium is set on fire

C) uranium is hit with a neutron

D) uranium is enriched

The average oil and gas fracking operation in Kansas uses ______per well.

A) 50,000 gallons of water

B) 100,000 gallons of water

C) 500,000 gallons of water

D) 1 million gallons of water

E) 2 million gallons of water

What is closest to the number of mountains that have beendestroyed during mountaintop removal in the U.S._____

A) 50

B) 500

C) 5000

D) 15000

In order to release the energy from a fossil fuel, humanstypically ____

A) burn them

B) refine them

C) process them

D) spill them

Surface mining is the typical extraction technique for ___

A) coal

B) tar shale

C) petroleum

D) natural gas

E) both A and B

F) both C and D

Primary and secondary recovery from well sites are the typicalextraction technique for ____

A) coal

B) tar shale

C) petroleum

D) natural gas

E) both A and B

F) both C and D

During the early part of petroleum extraction in Kansas,technology available would be able to extract approximately ___

A) 10% of the total petroleum

B) 25% of the total petroleum

C) 50% of the total petroleum

D) 75% of the total petroleum

E) 100% of the total petroleum

During the Obama administration, petroleum production has ____in Kansas and ____ in the U.S. overall.

A) increased

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Question1.1. The cumulative amount ofresources an organism uses to survive is known as its ________.(Points : 1)

carbon footprint
ecologicalfootprint
biologicalfootprint
consumptionfootprint

Question2.2. The Conservation ReserveProgram pays farmers to ________. (Points : 1)

grow crops such as cornand beans
plant trees or grassesinstead of cultivating highly erodible cropland
install living plants aswindbreaks
allow animal populationsto naturally disperse over their property

Question3.3. The United States agencycharged with slowing soil degradation is the ________. (Points :1)

Soil AggregationService
Agricultural StandardsAgency
Conservation IntegrationService
Natural ResourceConservation Service (formerly the Soil Conservation Service)

Question4.4. In 1999, the richestone-fifth of the world's people possessed ________ times the incomeof the poorest one-fifth. (Points : 1)

5
12
32
82

Question5.5. Since the 1960s, themost-used fuel in the world is ________. (Points : 1)

coal
natural gas
oil
nuclear power

Question6.6. The majority of theworld's population survives on the equivalent of ________ U.S. perday. (Points : 1)

about $5
less than $2
about $1
exactly $0.50

Question7.7. Which of the following isa major pollutant of groundwater? (Points : 1)

Carbon
Igneous rock
Cover crops
Petroleum

Question8.8. The largest use of freshwater is for ________. (Points : 1)

drinking
washing and bathing
irrigation andagriculture
industry andmanufacturing

Question9.9. Data indicate thatpresent freshwater consumption in much of the world is ________.(Points : 1)

sustainable
unsustainable
not depleting groundwatersupply but is decreasing surface water storage
not effecting freshwatersupply in coastal areas but is causing shortages in inlandregions

Question10.10. Water that runs downsinks, showers, and bathtub drains, and that can be used withlittle or no treatment for irrigation and some industry is called________. (Points : 1)

loose water
runoff
gray water
fresh water

Question11.11. The age structure of apopulation ________. (Points : 1)

is based on the adjustedlifespan of a species
can be used to predictfuture dynamics of a population
is calculated based onthe number of individuals who survive puberty
is derived frompopulation growth rate

Question12.12. What percentage of thetotal water on Earth is fresh water? (Points : 1)

15%
10%
5%
2.5%

Question13.13. A coal mining processthat removes huge amounts of soil and rock in order to directlyaccess coal reserves is known as ________. (Points : 1)

strip mining
subsurface mining
surface mining
dynamite mining

Question14.14. The energy harnessed ina nuclear reactor is released from splitting ________. (Points :1)

molecules
atoms
protons
electrons

Question15.15. The main waste productfrom a nuclear power plant is ________. (Points : 1)

barrels of radioactiveliquid
uranium fuel rods
acid rain
invisible radioactivevapor

Question16.16. ________ can contributeto air pollution and the contamination of both surface water andgroundwater. (Points : 1)

Hydroponics
Greenhouse farmingoperations
Aquaculture
Concentrated animalfeeding operations

Question17.17. It is moreenergetically efficient to eat ________ than other food sources.(Points : 1)

primary producers
herbivores
carnivores
tertiary consumers

Question18.18. Life expectancies indeveloping countries, such as those in southern Africa, ________.(Points : 1)

are on the rise
are beginning tostabilize due to population control
have fallen dramaticallycompared to life expectancies of the 1950s
are equivalent to lifeexpectancies in developed countries, such as the United States andCanada

Question19.19. The loss of more than10% productivity in arid areas to erosion, soil compaction, forestremoval, and an array of other factors is called ________. (Points: 1)

weathering
leaching
desertification
salinization

Question20.20. All of the followingare examples of renewable energy sources except ________. (Points :1)

solar power
biodiesel
natural gas
wind power

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