ENV 1101 Study Guide - Energy Policy Of Canada

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9 Jul 2014

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University of Ottawa

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Environmental Studies

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ENV 1101

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Over the years, their organic remains have formed into coal, oil and gas and are used to generate electricity and power. Petroleum, or oil, is easier to retrieve from the ground than coal. Coal provides about 30% of canada"s energy, while oil provides 40%. Advantages toward fossil fuels are that they are able to generate very large amounts of electricity using only coal. Transportation of oil and gas to power stations are fairly simple and require no struggle and these stations can be built anywhere. On the other hand, disadvantages are mainly pollution, burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide gas and can lead to the. Out of the three resources for fossil fuels, burning coal produces the most amounts of carbon dioxide, as well as sulphur dioxide which can cause acid rain. For environmentalist, mining for these resources, especially coal can destroy or damage the environment and landscapes.

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Carbon dioxide, which is recognized as the major contributor to global warming as a “greenhouse gas,” is formed when fossil fuels are combusted, as in electrical power plants fueled by coal, oil, or natural gas. One potential way to reduce the amount of CO₂ added to the atmosphere is to store it as a compressed gas in underground formations. Consider a 1000-megawatt coal-fired power plant that produces about 6 × 10⁶ tons of CO₂ per year. (a) Assuming ideal-gas behavior, 1.00 atm, and 27 °C, calculate the volume of CO₂ produced by this power plant. (b) If the CO₂ is stored underground as a liquid at 10 °C and 120 atm and a density of 1.2 g/cm³, what volume does it possess? (c) If it is stored underground as a gas at 36 °C and 90 atm, what volume does it occupy?

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Alberty and VanDeveer (1996) have compared the political economics of the Montreal Protocol to that of international attempts at controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, are emitted from the burning of fossil fuels, especially coal. While North America and Western Europe have been responsible for approximately 60 percent of the human-caused increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, developing countries such as India and China that will be developing their coal resources are expected to surpass the emissions levels of rich countries in the first third of the twenty-first century. These countries interpret attempts at controlling their coal-based economic development as another example of rich countries trying to keep poor countries from raising incomes and attaining international power. Relative to the Montreal Protocol, is the international effort to control greenhouse gases more Stiglerian or Olsonian in nature? Why might the political economic outcomes be different from that of CFCs?

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Carbon dioxide, which is recognized as the major contributor to global warming as a "greenhouse gas," is formed when fossil fuels are combusted, as in electrical power plants fueled by coal, oil, or natural gas. One potential way to reduce the amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere is to store it as a compressed gas in underground formations. Consider a 1000-megawatt coal-fired power plant that produces about 6 x10^6 tons of CO2 per year.

part A: Assuming ideal gas behavior, 1.00 atm, and 27 âC, calculate the volume of CO2 produced by this power plant. Express your answer using one significant figure.

part B: If the CO2 is stored underground as a liquid at 10 âC and 120 atm and a density of 1.2 g/cm3, what volume does it possess? Express your answer using one significant figure.

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