Session 2 Energy Sources and Uses

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Session 2 Energy Sources and Uses

• Topics
• Text, Chapter 1
• Sustainable, renewable definitions
• Energy definitions and relationships
• Energy sources and conversions
• US Energy supply and usage
• Contribution of renewables
• US electrical sources and uses
• Environmental impacts

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Definitions

• Sustainable Energy
• Renewable Energy
• Non-renewable Energy

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Definitions and Relationships

• Discussion of fuels and typical units
• Food (kg-cal)
• Gasoline (btu)
• Natural gas (btu)
• Electricity (kwh)
• Solar radiation (watt)
• Cosmic Radiation (electron volt)
• Conversions
• Absolute energy content (eq. 1-14)

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U.S. Energy Supply - 2007
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US Energy Supply - 2006
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2008
At http//www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pdf/pages/sec
10_2.pdf
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Renewables - 2007
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Renewables - 2006
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Potential U.S. Electric Energy Resource
Concentrations
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2008
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Sources and Uses of Electricity - 2007
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Sources and Uses of Electricity, 2006
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Environmental ImpactsAll Technologies Have
Adverse Impacts

• Extraction
• Refining
• Transportation
• Operations
• Decommissioning

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Atmospheric Impacts
CO2, in million metric tons
Source EIA