TSES 3002 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Life-Cycle Assessment, Beacon Power, Compressed Air Energy Storage

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Technology, Society, Environment Studies
• Course: TSES 3002
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Resources: renewable resources, replaced by natural process, within a few generations(?, on a human time scale (as fast as humans need it) time, or can be replaced by sound resource management (conducts life cycle analyses of discards management options, different ways to control resources and how they are replenished, non renewable resources. Time scale is to long for replenishing: not useful because it does not fit our needs, resources: another category, abiotic, minerals, metals, , what makes these non renewable, fixed amount problem is that it becomes locked up in areas that is not economically worth to retrieve it, more expensive to extract it than what the material is worth, percentage lost in each process from extraction to final product, fixed amount, nuclear processes breaks materials down, economic (diffuse) ex metals (lead tetraethyl lead, composition change ex. burning oil (start with gasoline, changes to co2) or nuclear fission, changes in amounts ex. aquifer depletion, biotic, can be non renewable if.